Bacterial diversity in the intestinal tract of the fungus-cultivating termite Macrotermes michaelseni (Sjöstedt)

African Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 658-667

  Mackenzie, Lucy Mwende ^a,b   Muigai, Anne Thairu ^a   Osir, Ellie Onyango ^b   Lwande, Wilber ^b   Keller, Martin ^c   Toledo, Gerardo ^c   Boga, Hamadi Iddi ^a  

^a JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Kenya)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

^c DIVERSA CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

16s rRNA gene; Bacterial diversity; Fungus cultivating termites; Intestinal tract; RFLP

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CYTOPHAGA; DNA EXTRACTION; FLEXIBACTER; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; INTESTINE; ISOPTERA; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PHYLUM; PROTEOBACTERIA; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPIROCHAETA; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS CULTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; CYTOPHAGA; FLEXIBACTER; FUNGI; ISOPTERA; MACROTERMES GILVUS; MACROTERMES MICHAELSENI; PLANCTOMYCETES; POSIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; UNCULTURED BACTERIUM;

EID: 34047146935     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16845315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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