'Candidatus Ancillula trichonymphae', a novel lineage of endosymbiotic Actinobacteria in termite gut flagellates of the genus Trichonympha

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3259-3270

  Strassert, Jürgen F H ^a,b   Köhler, Tim ^a   Wienemann, Tobias H G ^a   Ikeda Ohtsubo, Wakako ^a   Faivre, Nicolas ^a   Franckenberg, Sibylle ^a   Plarre, Rudy ^c   Radek, Renate ^b   Brune, Andreas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c BAM FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH AND TESTING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACTERIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DESULFOVIBRIO; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETICS; HYPERMASTIGIDA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ISOPTERA; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA GENE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DESULFOVIBRIO; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENES, RRNA; HYPERMASTIGIA; ISOPTERA; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS;

ACTINOBACTERIA; DESULFOVIBRIO; INCISITERMES; ISOPTERA; KALOTERMITIDAE; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); MICROCOCCINEAE; TRICHONYMPHA; TRICHONYMPHA AGILIS;

EID: 84870516688     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12012     Document Type: Article

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