Evidence for cascades of perturbation and adaptation in the metabolic genes of higher termite gut symbionts

mBio

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Zhang, Xinning ^a,b   Leadbetter, Jared R ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SELENIUM;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; ENDOSYMBIONT; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FDHF GENE; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE LOSS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; INTESTINE FLORA; ISOPTERA; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES INVASION; SPIROCHETE; SYMBIOSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA; PROTOZOA; TERMITIDAE;

EID: 84865706896     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00223-12     Document Type: Article

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