Novel lineages of Planctomycetes densely colonize the alkaline gut of soil-feeding termites (Cubitermes spp.)

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1260-1270

  Köhler, Tim ^a   Stingl, Ulrich ^a,b   Meuser, Katja ^a   Brune, Andreas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Synthetic Genomics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ISOPTERA; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PHYLOGENY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; ISOPTERA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CUBITERMES; ISOPTERA; PLANCTOMYCETES;

EID: 41849124866     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01540.x     Document Type: Article

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