Putatively free-living 'Endomicrobia' - ancestors of the intracellular symbionts of termite gut flagellates?

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 554-559

  Ikeda Ohtsubo, Wakako ^a,b   Faivre, Nicolas ^a   Brune, Andreas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TOHOKU GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BLATTARIA; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); RETICULITERMES SANTONENSIS; SCARABAEIDAE; TERMITIDAE;

EID: 77954608200     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2009.00124.x     Document Type: Article

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