PH optimization of gut cellulase and xylanase activities from the eastern subterranean termite, reticulitermesflavipes (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 199-210

  Smith, Joseph A ^a   Scharf, Michael E ^a   Pereira, Roberto M ^a   Koehler, Philip G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

glucosidase; Cellulase; Endoglucanase; Exoglucanase

Indexed keywords

ISOPTERA; RETICULITERMES FLAVIPES; RHINOTERMITIDAE; TERMITIDAE;

EID: 68949108258     PISSN: 03616525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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