Single-Cell DNA Barcoding Using Sequences from the Small Subunit rRNA and Internal Transcribed Spacer Region Identifies New Species of Trichonympha and Trichomitopsis from the Hindgut of the Termite Zootermopsis angusticollis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Tai, Vera ^a   James, Erick R ^a   Perlman, Steve J ^b   Keeling, Patrick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BARCODING; GENE CLUSTER; INSECT CELL; ISOPTERA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MORPHOTYPE; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RNA SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SYMBIONT; TAXONOMIC RANK; TRICHOMITOPSIS; TRICHOMITOPSIS MINOR; TRICHOMITOPSIS PARVUS; TRICHONYMPHA; TRICHONYMPHA POSTCYLINDRICA; ZOOTERMOPSIS ANGUSTICOLLIS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; HYPERMASTIGIA; ISOPTERA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84874839159     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058728     Document Type: Article

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