Comparison of Symbiotic Flagellate Faunae between Termites and a Wood-Feeding Cockroach of the Genus Cryptocercus

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 215-220

  Kitade, Osamu ^a  

^a IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

cluster analysis; community; cospeciation; Oxymonadea; Parabasalea; protist; type III quantification method

Indexed keywords

EID: 38849090298     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.19.215     Document Type: Article

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