Pilibacter termitis gen. nov., sp. nov., a lactic acid bacterium from the hindgut of the Formosan subterranean termite (Coptotermes formosanus)

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 15-20

  Higashiguchi, Dennis T ^a   Husseneder, Claudia ^a   Grace, J Kenneth ^b   Berestecky, John M ^c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c Kapiolani Community College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BACITRACIN; CYTOSINE; ETHYLHYDROCUPREINE; FATTY ACID; GUANINE; LACTIC ACID; RNA 16S;

ALCOHOL PRODUCTION; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CELL LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; DNA CONTENT; ENTEROCOCCUS; FERMENTATION; GENUS; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; INTESTINE FLORA; ISOPTERA; LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PILIBACTER TERMITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPOROGENESIS; TYPE STRAIN;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; ETHANOL; FATTY ACIDS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; ISOPTERA; LACTIC ACID; LACTOBACILLUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; ENTEROCOCCUS; ISOPTERA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 31144451622     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.63543-0     Document Type: Article

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