Impact of oxygen on metabolic fluxes and in situ rates of reductive acetogenesis in the hindgut of the wood-feeding termite Reticulitermes flavipes

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 436-449

  Tholen, A ^a   Brune, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CELLULOSE; GLUCOSE; LACTIC ACID DERIVATIVE; LIGNIN; LIGNOCELLULOSE; OXYGEN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ISOPTERA; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; WOOD;

ACETATES; ANIMALS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CELLULOSE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; GLUCOSE; ISOPTERA; LACTATES; LIGNIN; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; WOOD;

ANIMALIA; ISOPTERA; MICROBIOTA; PROTOZOA; RETICULITERMES FLAVIPES;

EID: 0034551727     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2000.00127.x     Document Type: Article

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