Diversity of Termitomyces Associated with Fungus-Farming Termites Assessed by Cultural and Culture-Independent Methods

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Makonde, Huxley M ^a,b   Boga, Hamadi I ^b   Osiemo, Zipporah ^b   Mwirichia, Romano ^b   Stielow, J Benjamin ^c   Göker, Markus ^a   Klenk, Hans Peter ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

^b JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Kenya)

^c CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COII GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LIBRARY; HOST RANGE; ISOPTERA; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MONOCULTURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANISM COLONY; ORGANISMS BY MUTUAL INTERACTION; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SYMBIOSIS; TAXONOMY; TERMITOMYCES;

ANIMALS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GENETIC VARIATION; ISOPTERA; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS; TERMITOMYCES;

EID: 84874263456     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056464     Document Type: Article

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