The True Diversity of Devescovinid Flagellates in the Termite Incisitermes marginipennis

Protist

Volumn 160, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 522-535

  Strassert, Jürgen F H ^a   Desai, Mahesh S ^b   Brune, Andreas ^b   Radek, Renate ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Incisitermes marginipennis; Metadevescovina; parabasalids; symbionts; termites

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL RNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 18S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ISOPTERA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRICHOMONADIDA; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENES, RRNA; ISOPTERA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRICHOMONADIDA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DEVESCOVINA; DEVESCOVINIDAE; INCISITERMES; INCISITERMES MARGINIPENNIS; ISOPTERA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); METADEVESCOVINA; PARABASALIDEA; PTEROTERMES; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 70349902544     PISSN: 14344610     EISSN: 16180941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2009.04.002     Document Type: Article

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