Proteome insights into the symbiotic relationship between a captive colony of Nasutitermes corniger and its hindgut microbiome

ISME Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 161-164

  Burnum, Kristin E ^a   Callister, Stephen J ^a   Nicora, Carrie D ^a   Purvine, Samuel O ^a   Hugenholtz, Philip ^b   Warnecke, Falk ^b   Scheffrahn, Rudolf H ^c   Smith, Richard D ^a   Lipton, Mary S ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

mass spectrometry; microbial communities; Nasutitermes

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEOME;

AMINO ACID; BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; CARBOHYDRATE; CELLULOSE; COLONY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; NITROGEN FIXATION; PROTEIN; PROTEOMICS; SYMBIOSIS; TERMITE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; GENETICS; ISOPTERA; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ISOPTERA; METAGENOME; PROTEOME; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ISOPTERA; NASUTITERMES; NASUTITERMES CORNIGER; TERMITIDAE;

EID: 78650611536     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2010.97     Document Type: Article

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