Differences between bacterial communities in the gut of a soil-feeding termite (Cubitermes niokoloensis) and its mounds

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 5199-5208

  Fall, Saliou ^a,d   Hamelin, Jérôme ^b,e   Ndiaye, Farma ^a   Assigbetse, Komi ^a   Aragno, Michel ^b   Chotte, Jean Luc ^c   Brauman, Alain ^c  

^a Centre IRD de Bel Air   (Senegal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^d ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON   (France)

^e LABORATOIRE DE BIOTECHNOLOGIE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS (DGGE); GENETIC STRUCTURES;

ECOSYSTEMS; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SOILS;

BACTERIA;

RNA 16S;

GENETIC STRUCTURE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHYLOGENY; SOIL MICROORGANISM; TERMITE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUBITERMES NIOKOLOENSIS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; FIRMICUTES; INTESTINE FLORA; ISOPTERA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA GENE; SOIL MICROFLORA; TROPIC CLIMATE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; INTESTINES; ISOPTERA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CUBITERMES NIOKOLOENSIS; FIRMICUTES; ISOPTERA; NOCARDIOIDACEAE; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 34548224151     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02616-06     Document Type: Article

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