Cospeciation of termite gut flagellates and their bacterial endosymbionts: Trichonympha species and 'Candidatus Endomicrobium trichonymphae'

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 332-342

  Ikeda Ohtsubo, Wakako ^a,b   Brune, Andreas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TOHOKU GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cospeciation; Cryptocercus; Endosymbionts; Evolution; Gut flagellates; Termites

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL RNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; FLAGELLATE; GENETICS; ISOPTERA; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BAYES THEOREM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, RRNA; GENETIC SPECIATION; ISOPTERA; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MASTIGOPHORA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BLATTARIA; CRYPTOCERCUS; CRYPTOCERCUS PUNCTULATUS; ISOPTERA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PARABASALIDEA; RHINOTERMITIDAE; TERMOPSIDAE; TRICHONYMPHA;

EID: 58249102179     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.04029.x     Document Type: Article

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