Does correlation of cellulase gene expression and cellulolytic activity in the gut of termite suggest synergistic collaboration of cellulases?

Gene

Volumn 401, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 131-134

  Tokuda, Gaku ^a   Watanabe, Hirofumi ^b   Lo, Nathan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cellulose digestion; Reticulitermes; Symbiont; Synergism

Indexed keywords

CELLULASE;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEGRADATION; DIGESTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLAGELLATE; GENE EXPRESSION; INTESTINE; INTRON; ISOPTERA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WOOD;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELLULASE; CELLULOSE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENES, INSECT; INTRONS; ISOPTERA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SYMBIOSIS;

COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); RETICULITERMES FLAVIPES;

EID: 34548509474     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2007.06.028     Document Type: Article

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