Symbionts of the gut flagellate Staurojoenina sp. from Neotermes cubanus represent a novel, termite-associated lineage of Bacteroidales: Description of 'Candidatus Vestibaculum illigatum'

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 2229-2235

  Stingl, Ulrich ^a   Maass, Annelie ^b   Radek, Renate ^b   Brune, Andreas ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTEROIDES; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLAGELLATE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE ISOLATION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INTESTINE FLORA; ISOPTERA; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; MIXOTRICHA PARADOXA; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MOLECULAR PROBE; NEOTERMES CUBANUS; NEW COMBINATION (TAXONOMY); NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STAUROJOENINA; SYMBIONT; TANNERELLA FORSYTHENSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VESTIBACULUM ILLIGATUM;

BACTEROIDALES; ISOPTERA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); MIXOTRICHA PARADOXA; NEGIBACTERIA; NEOTERMES; NEOTERMES CUBANUS; PROTISTA; PROTOZOA; STAUROJOENINA; TANNERELLA FORSYTHENSIS; VESTIBACULUM ILLIGATUM;

EID: 4344660193     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27135-0     Document Type: Article

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