Tetraponera ants have gut symbionts related to nitrogen-fixing root-nodule bacteria

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1504, 2002, Pages 2023-2027

  Van Borm, Steven ^a   Buschinger, Alfred ^a   Boomsma, Jacobus J ^a   Billen, Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

16S rDNA; Eubacteria; Formicidae; Nitrogen recycling; Symbiosis; Tetraponera

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANT; BACTERIUM; NITROGEN FIXATION; SYMBIONT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANT; ARTICLE; BURKHOLDERIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOSYMBIONT; FLAVOBACTERIUM; INTESTINE; MALPIGHIAN TUBULE; METHYLOBACTERIUM; MIDGUT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; RECYCLING; RHIZOBIUM; RNA SEQUENCE; TRACHEA;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA; FLAVOBACTERIA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; MALPIGHIA; METHYLOBACTERIUM; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMYRMECINAE; RHIZOBIUM; TETRAPONERA;

EID: 41049096327     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2101     Document Type: Article

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