Microbial Community Structure in Midgut and Hindgut of the Humus-Feeding Larva of Pachnoda ephippiata (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 6659-6668

  Egert, Markus ^a   Wagner, Bianca ^a   Lemke, Thorsten ^b   Brune, Andreas ^b   Friedrich, Michael W ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; CLONING; FERMENTATION; MICROBIOLOGY; RNA;

SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

SOILS;

ACETIC ACID; LACTIC ACID; RNA 16S;

ACINETOBACTER; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTEROIDES; CLOSTRIDIUM; COLEOPTERA; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRENARCHAEOTA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; GENE FREQUENCY; HINDGUT; HUMUS; LACTOBACILLUS; METHANOBACTERIALES; METHANOGENESIS; MICROFLORA; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACHNODA EPHIPPIATA; PHYLOGENY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BEETLES; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENES, RRNA; INTESTINES; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ACINETOBACTER; ACTINOBACTERIA; ARACHNIDA; ARCHAEA; BACILLALES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; CLOSTRIDIALES; CLOSTRIDIUM; COLEOPTERA; CRENARCHAEOTA; CYTOPHAGA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; HEXAPODA; LACTOBACILLALES; LACTOBACILLUS; METHANOBACTERIACEAE; METHANOBACTERIALES; MICROBIOTA; PACHNODA; POSIBACTERIA; SCARABAEIDAE;

EID: 0242544069     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.11.6659-6668.2003     Document Type: Article

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