Light and electron microscopic study of the bacterial adhesion to termite flagellates applying lectin cytochemistry

Protoplasma

Volumn 193, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 105-122

  Radek, Renate ^a   Rösel, Joachim ^a   Hausmann, Klaus ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Bacterial adhesion; Devescovina glabra; Ectobiote; Flagellate; Joenia annectens; Lectin; Microrhopalodina multinucleata; Stephanonympha nelumbium; Termite

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DEVESCOVINA; DEVESCOVINA GLABRA; ISOPTERA; JOENIA; JOENIA ANNECTENS; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); SPIROCHAETALES; STEPHANONYMPHA;

EID: 0029850622     PISSN: 0033183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01276639     Document Type: Article

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