Molecular analysis of bacterial microbiota in the gut of the termite Reticulitermes speratus (Isoptera; Rhinotermitidae)

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 231-242

  Hongoh, Yuichi ^a,b   Ohkuma, Moriya ^a,b   Kudo, Toshiaki ^a,b,c  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diversity; Gut bacterium; Symbiosis; Termite

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; SYMBIOSIS; TERMITE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES; CLOSTRIDIUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; INTESTINE FLORA; ISOPTERA; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MYCOPLASMA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPIROCHAETA; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; CLOSTRIDIA; ISOPTERA; MICROBIOTA; MYCOPLASMA; PROTEOBACTERIA; RETICULITERMES SPERATUS; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 0037447817     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6496(03)00026-6     Document Type: Article

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