Presumptive horizontal symbiont transmission in the fungus-growing termite Macrotermes natalensis

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3131-3138

  De Fine Licht, H H ^a   Boomsma, J J ^a   Aanen, D K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Mutualism; Population structure; Recombination; Symbiont transmission; Symbiosis; Termitomyces

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR 1; FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOPTERA; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOUTH AFRICA; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIDIOMYCOTA; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; ISOPTERA; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR 1; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RNA POLYMERASE II; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOUTH AFRICA; SYMBIOSIS;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI; ISOPTERA; MACROTERMES; MACROTERMES BELLICOSUS; MACROTERMES NATALENSIS; MACROTERMITINAE; TERMITOMYCES;

EID: 33748593369     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2006.03008.x     Document Type: Article

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