# Editorial: Protistan phagotrophy and the far-reaching implications

**Authors:** Milos Legner, Edward Fillery, Miroslav Macek

PMC · DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2026.1798549 · Frontiers in Microbiology · 2026-02-18

## Full-text entities

- **Diseases:** ciliopathies (MESH:D000072661)
- **Chemicals:** CO2 (MESH:D002245), iron (MESH:D007501), carbon (MESH:D002244), N (MESH:D009584), P (MESH:D010758)
- **Species:** Homo sapiens (human, species) [taxon 9606], Vibrio cholerae (species) [taxon 666], Tetrahymena pyriformis (species) [taxon 5908], Euplotes amieti (species) [taxon 1539902]

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