Hydrogen concentration profiles at the oxic-anoxic interface: A microsensor study of the hindgut of the wood-feeding lower termite Reticulitermes flavipes (Kollar)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 4039-4046

  Ebert, Andrea ^a   Brune, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE; HYDROGEN; METHANE; OXYGEN; RINGER SOLUTION;

ANOXIA; ARTICLE; FLAGELLATE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; INSECT; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM; INTESTINE FLORA; METHANOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN ELECTRODE; OXYGEN TENSION; PH ELECTRODE; WOOD;

INSECTA; ISOPTERA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); RETICULITERMES FLAVIPES; TRIXIS;

EID: 0030827156     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.10.4039-4046.1997     Document Type: Article

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