Metagenomic Profiling Reveals Lignocellulose Degrading System in a Microbial Community Associated with a Wood-Feeding Beetle

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Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Scully, Erin D ^a   Geib, Scott M ^b   Hoover, Kelli ^c   Tien, Ming ^c   Tringe, Susannah G ^d   Barry, Kerrie W ^d   Glavina del Rio, Tijana ^d   Chovatia, Mansi ^d   Herr, Joshua R ^a,c   Carlson, John E ^c,e  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b United States Dept of Agriculture Agriculture Res Service Pacific Basin Agricultural Res Center   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUND; CELLULASE; CELLULOSE; GLYCOSIDASE; HEMICELLULOSE; LACCASE; LIGNOCELLULOSE; PEROXIDASE; XYLAN ENDO 1,3 BETA XYLOSIDASE;

ANOPLOPHORA GLABRIPENNIS; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BEETLE; FUNGAL COMMUNITY; HERBIVORE; INTESTINE FLORA; INVASIVE SPECIES; ISOPTERA; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; NONHUMAN; WOOD;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BEETLES; FUNGI; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LIGNIN; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOTA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WOOD;

EID: 84883380234     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073827     Document Type: Article

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