Phylogenetic diversity of 'Endomicrobia' and their specific affiliation with termite gut flagellates

Microbiology

Volumn 153, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3458-3465

  Ikeda Ohtsubo, Wakako ^a   Desai, Mahesh ^a   Stingl, Ulrich ^a,b   Brune, Andreas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMICROBIA; FLAGELLATE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; ISOPTERA; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR PROBE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS; TRICHONYMPHA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; ISOPTERA; MASTIGOPHORA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

BLATTARIA; ISOPTERA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); RETICULITERMES SANTONENSIS; TRICHONYMPHA;

EID: 35448945537     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/009217-0     Document Type: Article

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