Metagenomic Insights into Metabolic Capacities of the Gut Microbiota in a Fungus-Cultivating Termite (Odontotermes yunnanensis)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Liu, Ning ^a   Zhang, Lei ^a   Zhou, Haokui ^b   Zhang, Meiling ^c   Yan, Xing ^a   Wang, Qian ^a   Long, Yanhua ^d   Xie, Lei ^a   Wang, Shengyue ^e   Huang, Yongping ^a   Zhou, Zhihua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d ANHUI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e CHINESE NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME CENTER AT SHANGHAI   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUND; CARBOHYDRATE; CHITINASE; LIGNOCELLULOSE; NITROGEN; OLIGOSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTEROIDALES; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL BIOMASS; FUNGAL CELL WALL; GENE FUNCTION; IMAGO; INTESTINE FLORA; ISOPTERA; METABOLIC CAPACITY; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; NASUTITERMES; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ODONTOTERMES YUNNANENSIS; PLANT FIBER; PYROSEQUENCING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSPOSON; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WORKER (INSECT);

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; FUNGI; INTESTINES; ISOPTERA; METAGENOMICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84880432380     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069184     Document Type: Article

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