Molecular phylogenetic identification of the intestinal anaerobic microbial community in the hindgut of the termite, Reticulitermes speratus, without cultivation

Extremophiles

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 155-161

  Kudo, Toshiaki ^a   Ohkuma, Moriya ^a   Moriya, Shigeharu ^a   Noda, Satoko ^a   Ohtoko, Kuniyo ^a  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Minimum size of anoxic habitat; Molecular phylogeny; Termite hindgut

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTEROIDES; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IDENTIFICATION; INTESTINE FLORA; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITROGENASE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOSOMAL RNA; TRICHONYMPHA AGILIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BACTEROIDES; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM; EURYARCHAEOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; ISOPTERA; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYLOGENY; SPIROCHAETALES; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTEROIDES; EUKARYOTA; FIRMICUTES; HYPERMASTIGIDA; ISOPTERA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); METHANOBACTERIALES; PARABASALIDEA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA; PROTOZOA; RETICULITERMES SPERATUS; SPIROCHAETALES; TRICHOMONADIDA; TRICHONYMPHA AGILIS;

EID: 0032143337     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007920050055     Document Type: Review

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