Cthulhu Macrofasciculumque n. g., n. sp. and Cthylla Microfasciculumque n. g., n. sp., a Newly Identified Lineage of Parabasalian Termite Symbionts

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  James, Erick R ^a   Okamoto, Noriko ^a   Burki, Fabien ^a   Scheffrahn, Rudolf H ^b   Keeling, Patrick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ARTICLE; CTHULHU MACROFASCICULUMQUE; CTHYLLA MICROFASCICULUMQUE; DNA BARCODING; FLAGELLUM; ISOPTERA; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARABASALIA; PRORHINOTERMES SIMPLEX; RETICULITERMES VIRGINICUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SYMBIONT; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ISOPTERA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARABASALIDEA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84875064454     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058509     Document Type: Article

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