Phylogenetic Relationship of Symbiotic Archaea in the Gut of the Higher Termite Nasutitermes takasagoensis Fed with Various Carbon Sources

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 157-164

  Miyata, Ryo ^a,b   Noda, Naohiro ^b   Tamaki, Hideyuki ^b   Kinjyo, Kazuhiko ^c   Aoyagi, Hideki ^a   Uchiyama, Hiroo ^a   Tanaka, Hideo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene; archaea; higher termite; Nasutitermes takasagoensis; symbiosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349236345     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.22.157     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Altschul, S.F., T.L. Madden, A.A. Schaffer, J.H. Zhang, Z. Zhang, W. Miller, and D.J. Lipman. 1997. Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs. Nucleic Acids Res. 25:3389–3402.
2. Bignell, D., and P. Eggleton. 2000. Termites in ecosystems, pp. 363–387. In T. Abe, D. Bignell, and M. Higashi (eds.), Termites: evolution, sociality, symbioses, ecology. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordecht.
3. Brauman, A., J. Dore, P. Eggleton, D. Bignell, J.A. Breznak, and M.D. Kane. 2001. Molecular phylogenetic profiling of prokaryotic communities in guts of termites with different feeding habits. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 35:27–36.
4. Brauman, A., M.D. Kane, M. Labat, and J.A. Breznak. 1992. Genesis of acetate and methane by gut bacteria of nutritionally diverse termites. Science 257:1384–1387.
5. Chin, K.J., T. Lukow, and R. Conrad. 1999. Effect of temperature on structure and function of the methanogenic archaeal community in an anoxic rice field soil. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 65:2341–2349.
6. Deevong, P., S. Hattori, A. Yamada, S. Trakulnaleamsai, M. Ohkuma, N. Noparatnaraporn, and T. Kudo. 2004. Isolation and detection of methanogens from the gut of higher termite. Microbes Environ. 19:221–226.
7. Deevong, P., Y. Hongoh, T. Inoue, S. Trakulnaleamsai, T. Kudo, N. Noparatnaraporn, and M. Ohkuma. 2006. Effect of temporal sample preservation on the molecular study of a complex microbial community in the gut of the termite Microcerotermes sp. Microbes Environ. 21:78–85.
8. Donovan, S.E., P. Eggleton, and D.E. Bignell. 2001. Gut content analysis and a new feeding group classification of termites. Ecol. Entomol. 26:356–366.
9. Donovan, S.E., K.J. Purdy, M.D. Kane, and P. Eggleton. 2004. Comparison of Euryarchaea strains in the guts and food-soil of the soil-feeding termite Cubitermes fungifaber across different soil types. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70:3884–3892.
10. Eggleton, P., and I. Tayasu. 2001. Feeding groups, lifetypes and the global ecology of termites. Ecol. Res. 16:941–960.
11. Ferry, J., P. Smith, and R. Wolfe. 1974. Methanospirillum, a new genus of methanogenic bacteria, and characterization of Methanospirillum hungateii sp nov. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 24:465–469.
12. Friedrich, M.W., D. Schmitt-Wagner, T. Lueders, and A. Brune. 2001. Axial differences in community structure of Crenarchaeota and Euryarchaeota in the highly compartmentalized gut of the soil-feeding termite Cubitermes orthognathus. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 67:4880–4890.
13. Grosskopf, R., S. Stubner, and W. Liesack. 1998. Novel euryarchaeotal lineages detected on rice roots and in the anoxic bulk soil of flooded rice microcosms. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 64:4983–4989.
14. Hackstein, J.H.P., and C.K. Stumm. 1994. Methane production in terrestrial arthropods. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 91:5441–5445.
15. Kambhampati, S., and P. Eggleton. 2000. Taxonomy and phylogeny of termites, pp. 1–23. In T. Abe, D. Bignell, and M. Higashi (eds.), Termites: evolution, sociality, symbioses, ecology. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordecht.
16. Kanagawa, T. 2003. Bias and artifacts in multitemplate polymerase chain reactions (PCR). J. Biosci. Bioeng. 96:317–323.
17. Khademi, S., L.A. Guarino, H. Watanabe, G. Tokuda, and E.F. Meyer. 2002. Structure of an endoglucanase from termite, Nasutitermes takasagoensis. Acta Crystallogr. Sect. D-Biol. Crystal-logr. 58:653–659.
18. Lane, D.J. 1991. 16S/23S rRNA sequencing, pp. 115–175. In E. Stackebrandt, and M. Goodfellow (eds.), Nucleic acid techniques in bacterial systematics. John Wiley and Sons, New York.
19. Leadbetter, J.R., and J.A. Breznak. 1996. Physiological ecology of Methanobrevibacter cuticularis sp. nov. and Methanobrevibacter curvatus sp. nov., isolated from the hindgut of the termite Reticulitermes flavipes. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 62:3620–3631.
20. Leadbetter, J.R., L.D. Crosby, and J.A. Breznak. 1998. Methanobrevibacter filiformis sp. nov., a filamentous methanogen from termite hindguts. Arch. Microbiol. 169:287–292.
21. Ludwig, W., O. Strunk, R. Westram, L. Richter, H. Meier, Yadhukumar, A. Buchner, T. Lai, S. Steppi, G. Jobb, W. Forster, I. Brettske, S. Gerber, A.W. Ginhart, O. Gross, S. Grumann, S. Hermann, R. Jost, A. Konig, T. Liss, R. Lussmann, M. May, B. Nonhoff, B. Reichel, R. Strehlow, A. Stamatakis, N. Stuckmann, A. Vilbig, M. Lenke, T. Ludwig, A. Bode, and K.H. Schleifer. 2004. ARB: a software environment for sequence data. Nucleic Acids Res. 32:1363–1371.
22. Maidak, B.L., J.R. Cole, T.G. Lilburn, C.T. Parker, P.R. Saxman, R.J. Farris, G.M. Garrity, G.J. Olsen, T.M. Schmidt, and J.M. Tiedje. 2001. The RDP-II (Ribosomal Database Project). Nucleic Acids Res. 29:173–174.
23. Moriya, S., T. Inoue, M. Ohkuma, T. Yaovapa, T. Johjima, P. Suwanarit, U. Sangwanit, C. Vongkaluang, N. Noparatnaraporn, and T. Kudo. 2005. Fungal community analysis of fungus gardens in termite nest. Microbes Environ. 20:243–252.
24. Muyzer, G., A. Teske, C.O. Wirsen, and H.W. Jannasch. 1995. Phylogenetic relationships of Thiomicrospira species and their identification in deep-sea hydrothermal vent samples by denaturing gradient gel-electrophoresis of 16S DNA fragments. Arch. Microbiol. 164:165–172.
25. Noda, S., M. Kawai, H. Nakajima, T. Kudo, and M. Ohkuma. 2005. Identification and in situ detection of two lineages of bacteroidales ectosymbionts associated with a termite gut protist, Oxymonas sp. Microbes Environ. 21:16–22.
26. Ohkuma, M., S. Noda, and T. Kudo. 1999. Phylogenetic relationships of symbiotic methanogens in diverse termites. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 171:147–153.
27. Shinzato, N., T. Matsumoto, I. Yamaoka, T. Oshima, and A. Yamagishi. 2001. Methanogenic symbionts and the locality of their host lower termites. Microbes Enviorn. 16:43–47.
28. Shinzato, N., T. Matsumoto, I. Yamaoka, T. Oshima, and A. Yamagishi. 1999. Phylogenetic diversity of symbiotic methanogens living in the hindgut of the lower termite Reticulitermes speratus analyzed by PCR and in situ hybridization. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 65:837–840.
29. Sugimoto, A., T. Inoue, I. Tayasu, L. Miller, S. Takeichi, and T. Abe. 1998. Methane and hydrogen production in a termite-symbiont system. Ecol. Res. 13:241–257.