The gut bacteria associated with Camponotus japonicas Mayr with culture-dependent and DGGE methods

Current Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 610-616

  Li, Xiaoping ^a   Nan, Xiaoning ^a   Wei, Cong ^a   He, Hong ^a  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANT; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CAMPONOTUS JAPONICUS; CANDIDATUS BLOCHMANNIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA EXTRACTION; ENDOSYMBIONT; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS MUNDTII; FIRMICUTES; FRUCTOBACILLUS; INTESTINE FLORA; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAENIBACILLUS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BACTERIA; CULTURE MEDIA; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY;

BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPONOTUS; CAMPONOTUS JAPONICUS; CANDIDATUS BLOCHMANNIA; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS MUNDTII; FIRMICUTES; FORMICIDAE; PAENIBACILLUS; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 84867679145     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-012-0197-1     Document Type: Article

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