Diversity of microflora in the gut and casts of tropical composting earthworms reared on different substrates

Journal of Environmental Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 87-97

  Parthasarathi, K ^a   Ranganathan, L S ^a   Anandi, V ^a   Zeyer, Josef ^b  

^a ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dehydrogenase; Earthworm gut; Humic acid; Microbial population; Microflora; Wormcasts

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; EARTHWORM; HUMIC ACID; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALTENARIA; AMOEBA PROTEUS; AMOEBA TERRICOLA; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS OCHRACEOUS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM ANTITRATUM; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA KRUSEI; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CLADOSPORIUM CARRIONI; CLASDOSPORIUM HERBACIUM; COMPOSTING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CUNNINGHAMELLA ECHINULATA; CURVALARIA GENICULATA; CURVALARIA LUNATA; EARTHWORM; EISENIA FOETIDA; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUDRILUS EUGENIAE; EUGLENA ORIENTALIS; EUGLENA VIRIDIS; FUNGUS; FUSARIUM MONILIFORME; GEOTRICHUM CANDIDUM; INTESTINE FLORA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LAMPITO MAURITII; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROCOCCUS; MIMA POLYMORPHA; MORGANELLA MORGANII; MUCOR PLUMBEUS; MYCETIA STERILA; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NOCARDIA CAVIAE; NONHUMAN; PARAMECIUM TRICHIUM; PERIONYX EXCAVATUS; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PROTEUS VULGARIS; PROTOZOON; PROVIDENCIA RETTGERI; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RHIZOPUS; SACCHAROMONOSPORIA; SAKSENAE VASIFORMIS; SOIL ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS CITREUS; STREPTOMYCES ALBUS; STREPTOMYCES SOMALIENSIS; SYNCEPHALOSTRUM RACEMOSUM; TRICHODERMA KONINGII; TRICHOMONAS HOMINIS; TROPIC CLIMATE; VORTICELLA PICTA; YEAST;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ALTERNARIA; AMOEBA PROTEUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CLADOPHIALOPHORA CARRIONII; CUNNINGHAMELLA ECHINULATA; EARTHWORMS (SP.); EISENIA FETIDA; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUDRILUS EUGENIAE; EUGLENA VIRIDIS; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI; GALACTOMYCES GEOTRICHUM; GIBBERELLA FUJIKUROI; HYPOCREA KONINGII; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LAMPITO MAURITII; MORGANELLA MORGANII; MUCOR PLUMBEUS; MYCETIA; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; PARAMECIUM TRICHIUM; PERIONYX EXCAVATUS; PROTEUS VULGARIS; PROTOZOA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RHIZOPUS; STREPTOMYCES ALBUS; TRICHOMONAS; VORTICELLA;

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