Identification of endosymbiotic methanogen and ectosymbiotic spirochetes of gut protists of the termite coptotermes formosanus

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 94-97

  Inoue, Jun Ichi ^a,b   Noda, Satoko ^a   Hongoh, Yuichi ^a   Ui, Sadaharu ^b   Ohkuma, Moriya ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Methanogen; Protist; Spirochete; Symbiosis; Termite

Indexed keywords

COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; HOLOMASTIGOTOIDES MIRABILE; ISOPTERA; METHANOBREVIBACTER; PROKARYOTA; PROTISTA; SPIROCHAETALES; SPIROTRICHONYMPHA LEIDYI; TREPONEMA;

EID: 46049093994     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13426311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.23.94     Document Type: Article

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