Description of an early Cretaceous termite (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae) and its associated intestinal protozoa, with comments on their co-evolution

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Poinar, George O ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COEVOLUTION; CRETACEOUS; DINENYMPHITES SPIRIS; ENDAMOEBITES PROTERUS; FOAINITES ICELUS; FOSSIL ANIMAL; ISOPTERA; KALOTERMES BURMENSIS; MICRORHOPALODITES POLYNUCLEATIS; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; OXYMONAS PROTUS; OXYMONITES GERUS; PROTOZOON; PYRSONYMPHITES CORDYLINIS; SAUROMONITES KATATONIS; SPIROMASTIGITES ACANTHODES; SYMBIOSIS; TERANYMPHITES RHABDOTIS; TRICHONYMPHITES HENIS;

ACANTHODES; AMOEBA (GENUS); ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; HYPERMASTIGIA; ICELUS; ISOPTERA; KALOTERMES; KALOTERMITIDAE; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); OXYMONADIDA; OXYMONAS; PROTISTA; PROTOZOA; TRICHOMONADA;

EID: 64749108271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-2-12     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Symbiosis of flagellates and prokaryotes in the gut of lower termites. M Ohkuma, Trends Microbiol 2008 16 345 352 10.1016/j.tim.2008.04.004 18513972
2. Introduction to symbiosis. DE Bignell, Termites: Evolution, Sociality, Symbioses, Ecology Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Abe T, Bignell DE, Higashi M, 2000 189 208
3. Symbiotic associations with protists. T Inoue O Kitade T Yoshimura I Yamaoka, Termites: Evolution, Sociality, Symbioses, Ecology Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Abe T, Bignell D E, Higashi M, 2000 275 288
4. Order Oxymonadida. G Brugerolle JJ Lee, An Illustrated Guide to the Protozoa Lawrence, Kansas: Society of Protozoologists, Allen Press, Lee JJ, Leedale GF, Bradbury P, 2 2000 2 1186 1195
5. Phylum Parabasalia. G Brugerolle JJ Lee, An Illustrated Guide to the Protozoa Lawrence, Kansas: Society of Protozoologists, Allen Press, Lee JJ, Leedale GF, Bradbury, P, 2 2000 2 1196 1250
6. The woodfeeding roach Cryptocercus, its protozoa, and the symbiosis between protozoa and roach. LR Cleveland SR Hall EP Sanders J Collier, Mem Amer Acad Arts Sci 1934 17 185 342
7. Protozoa associated with termites and their role in digestion. BM Honigberg, Biology of Termites New York: Academic Press, Krishna K, Wiesner FM, 1970 2 1 36
8. A Boucot, Evolutionary Paleobiology of Behavior and Coevolution Amsterdam: Elsevier 1990
9. A generic revision and phylogenetic study of the family Kalotermitidae (Isoptera). K Krishna, Bulletin American Mus nat History 1961 122 303 408
10. Redescriptions of two termites from Burmese amber. RMC Williams, J Natural Hist 1968 2 547 551 10.1080/00222936800771041
11. Insects in Burmese amber. TDA Cockerell, American J Sci 1916 42 135 139
12. Insects in Burmese amber. TDA Cockerell, Ann Entomol Soc America 1917 10 323 329
13. Primitive termites from the Early Cretaceous of Asia (Isoptera). MS Engel DA Grimaldi K Krishna, Stuttgarter Beitr Naturkunde. Serie B 2007 371 1 32
14. A revision of the Tertiary fossil species of the Kalotermitidae (Isoptera). AE Emerson, American Mus Novitates 1969 2359 1 57
15. GO Poinar Jr GM Thomas, Laboratory Guide to insect pathogens and parasites New York: Plenum Press 1984
16. Amoeba of uncertain affinities. DJ Patterson AGB Simpson A Rogerson, An Illustrated Guide to the Protozoa Lawrence, Kansas: Society of Protozoologists, Allen Press, Lee JJ, Leedale GF, Bradbury P, 2 2000 2 804 827
17. Systematic differentiation and evolution of flagellates in termites. H Kirby, Rev Sociedad mexicana Historia Nat 1949 10 57 79
18. Flagellates of the Orders Trichomonadida Kirby, Oxymonadida Grassé, and Hypermastigida Grassi & Fo reported from lower termites (Isoptera families Mastotermitidae, Kalotermitidae, Hodotermitidae, Termopsidae, Rhinotermitidae, and Serritermitidae) and from the wood- feeding roach Cryptocercus (Dictyoptera: Cryptocercidae). MA Yamin, Sociobiology 1978 4 1 119
19. The flagellate subfamily Oxymonadinae. JB Cross, Univ California pub Zool 1946 53 67 162
20. Ordre des Oxymonadines. PP Grassé Traité de Zoologie Paris: Masson et Cie, Grassé PP, 1952 1 801 823
21. Hirmocystis termitis (Leidy) and Kofoidina ovata gen. nov., sp. nov. from termites. DP Henry, Archiv Protistenkunde 1933 80 101 115
22. Septate gregarines from Reticulitermes flavipes and Reticulitermes virginicus (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae). DW Hall N Hostettler, J Eukaryotic Microbiol 1993 40 29 33 10.1111/j.1550-7408.1993.tb04878.x
23. Studies on some amoebae from the termite Mirotermes, with notes on some other Protozoa from the Termitidae. H Kirby, Quarterly J Microscopical Soc 1927 71 189 222
24. Protozoa in termites of the genus Amitermes. H Kirby, Parasitology 1932 24 289 304
25. History of Insects. AP Rasnitsyn DLJ Quicke, Dordrecht: Kluver Academic Pub 2002
26. Cysts and symbionts of Staruojoenina assimilis Kirby from Neotermes. MF Dolan AM Weir H Melinsky JH Whiteside L Margulis, European J Protistology 2004 40 257 264 10.1016/j.ejop.2004.01.005
27. Nourishment and the Origin of Termite Eusociality. CA Nalepa, Nourishment and Evolution in Insect Societies San Francisco: Westview Press, Hunt JH, Nalepa CA, 1994 57 104
28. Characterizing the ancestors: Paedomorphosis and termite evolution. CA Nalepa C Bandi, Termites: Evolution, Sociality, Symbioses, Ecology Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Abe T, Bignell DE, Higashi M, 2000 53 75
29. Detritivory, coprophagy, and the evolution of digestive mutualisms in Dictyoptera. CA Nalepa DE Bignell C Bandi, Insectes Soc 2001 48 194 201 10.1007/PL00001767
30. WJ Bell LM Roth CA Nalepa, Cockroaches, ecology, behavior, and natural history Baltimore; The Johns Hopkins University Press 2007
31. Geology of an amber locality in the Hukawng Valley, northern Myanmar. RD Cruickshank K Ko, J Asian Earth Sci 2003 21 441 455 10.1016/S1367-9120(02)00044- 5
32. Araucarian source of fossiliferous Burmese amber: spectroscopic and anatomical evidence. G Poinar Jr JB Lambert Y Wu, J Bot Res Inst Texas 2007 1 449 455