Staurojoenina and other symbionts in Neotermes from San Salvador Island, Bahamas

Symbiosis

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 229-239

  Dolan, Michael ^a   Margulis, Lynn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Devescovinid; Hydrogenosomes; Hypermastigote; Termite; Trichomonad

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BAHAMAS; CLASSIFICATION; ENDOSPORE-FORMING RODS AND COCCI; FLAGELLATE; INSECT; INTESTINE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTOZOON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPIROCHETE; SYMBIOSIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BAHAMAS; ENDOSPORE-FORMING BACTERIA; INSECTS; INTESTINES; PROTOZOA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPIROCHAETALES; SYMBIOSIS; TRICHOMONADIDA;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS ARTHROMITUS; DEVESCOVINIDAE; INSECTA; ISOPTERA; KALOTERMITIDAE; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); METADEVESCOVINA; NEOTERMES; PROTISTA; PROTOZOA; RHIZOPHORA MANGLE; RHIZOPHORACEAE; SPIROCHAETALES; TRICHOMONADIDA;

EID: 0030997753     PISSN: 03345114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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