Bacteroidales ectosymbionts of gut flagellates shape the nitrogen-fixing community in dry-wood termites

ISME Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1302-1313

  Desai, Mahesh S ^a,b   Brune, Andreas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

alternative nitrogenase; bacteroidales; ectosymbionts; flagellates; nitrogen fixation; termite gut

Indexed keywords

NITROGENASE REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

BACTERIUM; COEVOLUTION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DIET; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FLAGELLATE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDROGEN; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; NITROGEN FIXATION; SYMBIONT; TERMITE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDETES; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETICS; ISOPTERA; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN FIXATION; PARABASALIA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS; TREPONEMA; WOOD;

ANIMALS; BACTEROIDETES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; ISOPTERA; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PARABASALIDEA; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS; TREPONEMA; WOOD;

AZOARCUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDALES; DEVESCOVINA; ISOPTERA; KALOTERMITIDAE; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); SNYDERELLA TABOGAE; TREPONEMA;

EID: 84862620776     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2011.194     Document Type: Article

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