Termites as functional gene resources

Recent Patents on Biotechnology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 10-18

  Matsui, Toru ^a   Tokuda, Gaku ^a   Shinzato, Naoya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biomass; Gene source; Symbionts; Termites

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; MICROORGANISMS; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

CELLULOSIC MATERIAL; DIVERSE SPECIES; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; FUNCTIONAL GENES; GENE SOURCE; METAGENOMICS; SINGLE-CELL EUKARYOTES; SYMBIONT; TERMITE; TERMITE SPECIES;

GENES;

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA GLUCOSIDASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENOMIC DNA; GENOMIC RNA; LACCASE; INSECT PROTEIN;

BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOMASS; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; FLAGELLUM; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RESOURCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INDUSTRIALIZATION; ISOPTERA; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; REVIEW; SPIROCHETE; SYMBIOSIS; ANIMAL; BIOTECHNOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATENT;

DICTYOPTERA; EUKARYOTA; ISOPTERA; PROKARYOTA; PROTISTA; TERMITIDAE;

ANIMALS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; INSECT PROTEINS; ISOPTERA; PATENTS AS TOPIC;

EID: 62149115699     PISSN: 18722083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/187220809787172687     Document Type: Review

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