Axial Dynamics, Stability, and Interspecies Similarity of Bacterial Community Structure in the Highly Compartmentalized Gut of Soil-Feeding Termites (Cubitermes spp.)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 6018-6024

  Schmitt Wagner, Dirk ^a   Friedrich, Michael W ^b   Wagner, Bianca ^b   Brune, Andreas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; SOILS;

AXIAL DYNAMICS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL GENE; BIODIVERSITY; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CUBITERMES ORTHOGNATUS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETIC STABILITY; INTESTINE FLORA; ISOPTERA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PREDICTION; PROCESS MODEL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOIL MICROFLORA; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; INTESTINES; ISOPTERA; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL;

ARACHNIDA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CUBITERMES; HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA; MICROBIOTA; ORTHOGNATHUS;

EID: 0142104396     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.10.6018-6024.2003     Document Type: Article

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