Spirochaeta coccoides sp. nov., a novel coccoid spirochete from the hindgut of the termite Neotermes castaneus

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 392-397

  Dröge, Stefan ^a   Fröhlich, Jürgen ^a   Radek, Renate ^b   König, Helmut ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOLOGY; ENZYMES; NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCES; OLIGOMERS; POLYSACCHARIDES; RNA;

COCCOID MORPHOLOGY; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; RRNA GENE SEQUENCE; SPIROCHAETA COCCOIDES;

BACTERIA;

ACETIC ACID; ALCOHOL; ALPHA ARABINOFURANOSIDASE; BETA GLUCOSIDASE; CELLULOSE; DISACCHARIDE; FORMIC ACID; HEMICELLULOSE; LIGNOCELLULOSE; MONOSACCHARIDE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; RNA 16S; XYLAN 1,4 BETA XYLOSIDASE; BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

CELLULOSE; DIGESTION; ETHANOL; FERMENTATION; GENE; RNA; TERMITE; YEAST;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CARBON SOURCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FERMENTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; ISOPTERA; NEOTERMES CASTANEUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SPIROCHAETA; SPIROCHAETA COCCOIDES; SPIROCHETE; TREPONEMA; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ISOPTERA; NEOTERMES CASTANEUS; SPIROCHAETA; SPIROCHAETALES; TREPONEMA;

ANAEROBIOSIS; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BASE COMPOSITION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ISOPTERA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPIROCHAETA;

EID: 33644859974     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.1.392-397.2006     Document Type: Article

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