Phylogenetic diversity of termite gut spirochaetes

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 331-345

  Lilburn, T G ^a   Schmidt, T M ^a,b   Breznak, J A ^a,b,c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Microbiology ^*  (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; CRYPTOTERMES DOMESTICUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ISOPTERA; MASTOTERMES DARWINIENSIS; NASUTITERMES; NASUTITERMES LUJAE; RETICULITERMES FLAVIPES; RETICULITERMES SPERATUS; SPIROCHAETA; SPIROCHAETA CALDARIA; SPIROCHAETA STENOSTREPTA; SPIROCHAETALES; SPIROCHAETES; TREPONEMA; ZOOTERMOPSIS ANGUSTICOLLIS;

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOPTERA; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE; STOMACH; TREPONEMA;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; ISOPTERA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STOMACH; TREPONEMA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033171506     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.1999.00043.x     Document Type: Article

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