Strict cospeciation of devescovinid flagellates and Bacteroidales ectosymbionts in the gut of dry-wood termites (Kalotermitidae)

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2120-2132

  Desai, Mahesh S ^a   Strassert, Jürgen F H ^b   Meuser, Katja ^a   Hertel, Horst ^c   Ikeda Ohtsubo, Wakako ^a   Radek, Renate ^b   Brune, Andreas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c BAM FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH AND TESTING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDETES; CLASSIFICATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETICS; ISOPTERA; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARABASALIA; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SYMBIOSIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BACTEROIDETES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENES, RRNA; GENETIC SPECIATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; ISOPTERA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARABASALIDEA; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDALES; CADUCEIA VERSATILIS; DEVESCOVINA; DEVESCOVINIDAE; ISOPTERA; KALOTERMITIDAE; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); OXYMONAS;

EID: 77955235061     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.02080.x     Document Type: Article

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