The hindgut lumen prokaryotic microbiota of the termite Reticulitermes flavipes and its responses to dietary lignocellulose composition

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1836-1853

  Boucias, Drion G ^a   Cai, Yunpeng ^b   Sun, Yijun ^a   Lietze, Verena Ulrike ^a   Sen, Ruchira ^c   Raychoudhury, Rhitoban ^c   Scharf, Michael E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene; 454 pyrosequencing; bTEFAP; cellulose; Microbial symbionts

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL DNA; BACTERIAL DNA; CELLULOSE; LIGNIN; LIGNOCELLULOSE; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ISOPTERA; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; CELLULOSE; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; ISOPTERA; LIGNIN; METAGENOME; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; EUKARYOTA; FIBROBACTERES; FIRMICUTES; HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA; MOLLICUTES; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA; PROTOZOA; RETICULITERMES FLAVIPES; RHINOTERMITIDAE; SPIROCHAETALES; SPIROCHAETES; VERRUCOMICROBIA;

EID: 84875372913     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12230     Document Type: Article

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