Genetic variation of symbiotic fungi cultivated by the macrotermitine termite Odontotermes formosanus (Isoptera: Termitidae) in the Ryukyu Archipelago

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1565-1572

  Katoh, H ^a   Miura, T ^a   Maekawa, K ^a,c   Shinzato, N ^b   Matsumoto, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

AP PCR; Fungus growing termite; Genetic variation; Horizontal transmission; Odontotermes; Symbiosis; Termitomyces

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FUNGI; ISOPTERA; JAPAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SYMBIOSIS; VARIATION (GENETICS); ANIMALS;

FUNGI; ISOPTERA; MACROTERMITINAE; MYXOGASTRIA; ODONTOTERMES; ODONTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; TERMITIDAE; TERMITOMYCES;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; ISOPTERA; JAPAN; MICROBIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 0035993789     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294X.2002.01535.x     Document Type: Article

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