Symbiotic spirochetes in the termite hindgut: Phylogenetic identification of ectosymbiotic spirochetes of oxymonad protists

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 17-26

  Iida, Toshiya ^a   Ohkuma, Moriya ^a,b   Ohtoko, Kuniyo ^a,c   Kudo, Toshiaki ^a,b  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c TOYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ectosymbiosis; Phylogeny; Spirochete; Termite; Whole cell in situ hybridization

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL SURFACE; CELL TYPE; DINENYMPHA; DINENYMPHA PORTERI; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HODOTERMOPSIS SJOESTEDTI; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSECT; INTESTINE; MICROORGANISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; OXYMONAD; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTIST; PYRSONYMPHA; RETICULITERMES SPERATUS; SPIROCHETE; SYMBIOSIS; TERMITE; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA BRYANTII;

DINENYMPHA; HODOTERMOPSIS SJOESTEDTI; ISOPTERA; PROTISTA; PYRSONYMPHA; RETICULITERMES SPERATUS; SPIROCHAETALES; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA BRYANTII;

EID: 0033771591     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6496(00)00070-2     Document Type: Article

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