Cuckoo Fungus Mimics Termite Eggs by Producing the Cellulose-Digesting Enzyme β-Glucosidase

Current Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 30-36

  Matsuura, Kenji ^a,b   Yashiro, Toshihisa ^a   Shimizu, Ken ^a   Tatsumi, Shingo ^a   Tamura, Takashi ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

EVO_ECOL

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCOSIDASE; LYSOZYME; PRIMER DNA;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; ISOPTERA; JAPAN; METABOLISM; NESTING; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BASIDIOMYCOTA; BETA-GLUCOSIDASE; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION; ISOPTERA; JAPAN; MURAMIDASE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; OVUM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

FUNGI; HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA; SCLEROTIUM (ASCOMYCOTA);

EID: 58149170432     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.11.030     Document Type: Article

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