Candidatus Symbiothrix dinenymphae: Bristle-like Bacteroidales ectosymbionts of termite gut protists

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2631-2635

  Hongoh, Yuichi ^a   Sato, Tomoyuki ^a,b   Noda, Satoko ^a   Ui, Sadaharu ^b   Kudo, Toshiaki ^a   Ohkuma, Moriya ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDETES; FLAGELLATE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ISOPTERA; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTEROIDETES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; ISOPTERA; MASTIGOPHORA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDALES; DINENYMPHA; ISOPTERA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); OXYMONADIDA; PARABASALIDEA; PROTISTA; RETICULITERMES SPERATUS; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 34548438452     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01365.x     Document Type: Article

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