Phylogenetic identification of the symbiotic hypermastigote Trichonympha agilis in the hindgut of the termite Reticulitermes speratus based on small-subunit rRNA sequence

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 439-444

  Ohkuma, Moriya ^a   Ohtoko, Kuniyo ^b   Grunau, Christoph ^a,c   Moriya, Shigeharu ^a   Kudo, Toshiaki ^a  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b TOYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lower termite; Molecular phylogeny; Parabasalia; Protist; Symbiosis; Trichomonad; Whole cell hybridization

Indexed keywords

CULTIVATION; DNA; EUKARYOTE; HYBRIDIZATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOSOMAL RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EUKARYOTA; HYPERMASTIGIDA; ISOPTERA; PARABASALIDEA; PROTISTA; RETICULITERMES SPERATUS; TRICHOMONADIDA; TRICHONYMPHA AGILIS;

EID: 0032128402     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.1998.tb05096.x     Document Type: Article

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