Phylogenetic diversity, localization, and cell morphologies of members of the candidate phylum TG3 and a subphylum in the phylum Fibrobacteres, recently discovered bacterial groups dominant in termite guts

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 6780-6788

  Hongoh, Yuichi ^a   Deevong, Pinsurang ^a,b   Hattori, Satoshi ^a,d   Inoue, Tetsushi ^a   Noda, Satoko ^a   Noparatnaraporn, Napavarn ^b   Kudo, Toshiaki ^a,c   Ohkuma, Moriya ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUMINAL FLUIDS; NASUTITERMES TAKASAGOENSIS; SPIROCHETES;

BACTERIA; CELLS; CLONING; FLUORESCENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; SEDIMENTS;

BIODIVERSITY;

PRIMER DNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; TERMITE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CELL CLONE; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; COCKROACH; DEEP SEA; FIBROBACTERES; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); INSECT; INTESTINE; INTESTINE FLUID; ISOPTERA; LAKE SEDIMENT; MICROCEROTERMES; MICROFLORA; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MONOPHYLY; NASUTITERMES TAKASAGOENSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROKARYOTIC CELL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOIL; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPIROCHETE; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS; TG3 BACTERIUM;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CELL SIZE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; ISOPTERA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BLATTARIA; FIBROBACTERES; ISOPTERA; MICROCEROTERMES; NASUTITERMES TAKASAGOENSIS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 33750050566     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00891-06     Document Type: Article

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