Isolation and Detection of Methanogens from the Gut of Higher Termites

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 221-226

  Deevong, Pinsurang ^a,b   Hattori, Satoshi ^a   Yamada, Akinori ^a,c   Trakulnaleamsai, Savitr ^b   Ohkuma, Moriya ^a,d   Noparatnaraporn, Napavarn ^b   Kudo, Toshiaki ^a,e  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^e YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Methanobacterium; Methanobrevibacter; symbiosis; termite

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650052270     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.19.221     Document Type: Article

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