Evolutionary trend of phylogenetic diversity of nitrogen fixation genes in the gut community of wood-feeding termites

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 3768-3777

  Yamada, A ^a,b   Inoue, T ^a   Noda, S ^a   Hongoh, Y ^a   Ohkuma, M ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cryptocercus; Gut community; nifH; Nitrogen fixation; Symbiosis; Termite

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NITROGENASE REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETICS; ISOPTERA; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; ISOPTERA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SYMBIOSIS;

BLATTARIA; CRYPTOCERCUS; ISOPTERA; KALOTERMITIDAE; MACROTERMITINAE; MASTOTERMITIDAE; NASUTITERMITINAE; RHINOTERMITIDAE; TERMITIDAE; TERMITINAE; TERMOPSIDAE;

EID: 34548588484     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03326.x     Document Type: Article

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