Details of the digestive system in the midgut of Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki

Journal of Wood Science

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 222-226

  Fujita, Ai ^a   Hojo, Masaru ^a   Aoyagi, Tetsuo ^a   Hayashi, Yoshinobu ^a   Arakawa, Gaku ^a,b   Tokuda, Gaku ^b   Watanabe, Hirofumi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cellulase; Peritrophic membrane; Termite; Wood degradation

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; WOOD;

CELLULASE; COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS SHIRAKI; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PERITROPHIC MEMBRANE; SOLUBLE SUGARS; TERMITE; WOOD DEGRADATION; WOOD PARTICLES; WOODFEEDING TERMITES (WFT);

CELLULOSE;

CELLULASE; CELLULOSE; DECAY; DEGRADATION; DISTRIBUTION; GLUCOSE; SIZE; SUGAR; TERMITES; WOOD;

COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; ISOPTERA;

EID: 77953869588     PISSN: 14350211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10086-009-1088-3     Document Type: Article

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