Diversity of formyltetrahydrofolate synthetases in the guts of the wood-feeding cockroach cryptocercus punctulatus and the omnivorous cockroach periplaneta americana

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 4909-4913

  Ottesen, Elizabeth A ^a,b   Leadbetter, Jared R ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRMICUTES; MARKER GENES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; PERIPLANETA AMERICANA; SYNTHETASES; TERMITE GUT;

FEEDING;

BACTERIAL DNA; FORMATE TETRAHYDROFOLATE LIGASE;

COCKROACH; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OMNIVORY; STOMACH CONTENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COCKROACH; DNA SEQUENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETICS; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERIPLANETA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COCKROACHES; DNA, BACTERIAL; FORMATE-TETRAHYDROFOLATE LIGASE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PERIPLANETA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BLATTARIA; CRYPTOCERCUS PUNCTULATUS; FIRMICUTES; ISOPTERA; PERIPLANETA AMERICANA;

EID: 77954693098     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00299-10     Document Type: Article

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