Symbiotic "archaezoa" of the primitive termite Mastotermes darwiniensis still play a role in cellulase production

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1571-1576

  Watanabe, Hirofumi ^a   Takase, Aya ^a,b   Tokuda, Gaku ^b   Yamada, Akinori ^b   Lo, Nathan ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULASE; CELLULOSE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; EUKARYOTE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETICS; ISOPTERA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTOZOON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELLULASES; CELLULOSE; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; EUKARYOTA; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; ISOPTERA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROTOZOA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SYMBIOSIS;

ARCHEZOA; ISOPTERA; MASTOTERMES DARWINIENSIS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 33748873691     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00100-06     Document Type: Article

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