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Science 10 August 1973:
Vol. 181. no. 4099, pp. 562 - 564
DOI: 10.1126/science.181.4099.562
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Predator-Prey Interactions in Continuous Culture

P. van den Ende 1

1 School of Plant Biology, University College of North Wales, Bangor, Caernarvonshire, North Wales

The exploitation of a bacterial food supply by a protozoan predator does not necessarily lead to the extinction of either species. Even a "homogeneous" experimental system contains sufficient heterogeneity (the boundaries) for avoidance strategies to evolve, which allow the populations to presist.


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