Diverse bacteria related to the bacteroides subgroup of the CFB phylum within the gut symbiotic communities of various termites

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 78-84

  Ohkuma, Moriya ^a,b   Noda, Satoko ^a   Hongoh, Yuichi ^b   Kudo, Toshiaki ^a,b  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Culture independent approach; Phylogeny; Symbiosis; Termite; The bacteroides subgroup

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOPHAGA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GENETICS; ISOPTERA; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTEROIDES; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOPHAGA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION; FLAVOBACTERIUM; ISOPTERA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; CYTOPHAGA; ISOPTERA; RIKENELLA;

EID: 0036369407     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: 13476947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.66.78     Document Type: Article

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