Localization of symbiotic clostridia in the mixed segment of the termite Nasutitermes takasagoensis (Shiraki)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 2199-2207

  Tokuda, Gaku ^a   Yamaoka, Ikuo ^b   Noda, Hiroaki ^c  

^a Bio Orient Technol Res Adv Inst   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM; INSECT; INTESTINE FLORA; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; CLOSTRIDIUM; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ISOPTERA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SYMBIOSIS; WOOD;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIA; CLOSTRIDIUM; INSECTA; ISOPTERA; NASUTITERMES TAKASAGOENSIS; POSIBACTERIA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0034020328     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.5.2199-2207.2000     Document Type: Article

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