Disruption of the termite gut microbiota and its prolonged consequences for fitness

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 4303-4312

  Rosengaus, Rebeca B ^a   Zecher, Courtney N ^b   Schultheis, Kelley F ^a   Brucker, Robert M ^c   Bordenstein, Seth R ^b,c  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC TREATMENT; CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS; COLONY GROWTH; GUT BACTERIA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL FUNCTION; MICROBIAL POPULATIONS; MICROBIOTAS; NEW APPLICATIONS; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PRE-TREATMENT; REPRODUCTIVE OUTPUT; TERMITE GUT; TERMITE SPECIES;

ANTIBIOTICS; ECOLOGY; PEST CONTROL;

HEALTH;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN;

ANTIBIOTICS; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; BODY MASS; COLONIZATION; FECUNDITY; FITNESS; GROWTH RESPONSE; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; LONGEVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUTRITIVE VALUE; OVIPOSITION; PEST CONTROL; PROTOZOAN; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STOMACH CONTENT; TERMITE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; DRUG EFFECT; FERTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; ISOPTERA; LONGEVITY; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BODY WEIGHT; FERTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; ISOPTERA; LONGEVITY; METAGENOME; RIFAMPIN; SYMBIOSIS;

ISOPTERA; PROTOZOA; RETICULITERMES FLAVIPES; ZOOTERMOPSIS ANGUSTICOLLIS;

EID: 79960077337     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01886-10     Document Type: Article

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