Localizing transcripts to single cells suggests an important role of uncultured deltaproteobacteria in the termite gut hydrogen economy

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 40, 2013, Pages 16163-16168

  Rosenthal, Adam Z ^a   Zhang, Xinning ^a   Lucey, Kaitlyn S ^a   Ottesen, Elizabeth A ^a   Trivedi, Vikas ^b   Choi, Harry M T ^b   Pierce, Niles A ^b,c   Leadbetter, Jared R ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology HHMI   (United States)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetogenesis; Microfluidic digital PCR; RNA Seq

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; FORMATE DEHYDROGENASE; HYDROGEN; LIGNOCELLULOSE; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL HYBRIDIZATION; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; ENZYME METABOLISM; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTESTINE FLORA; ISOPTERA; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTOZOON; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; SPIROCHETE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

ACETOGENESIS; MICROFLUIDIC DIGITAL PCR; RNA-SEQ;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FORMATE DEHYDROGENASES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HYDROGEN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; ISOPTERA; METAGENOME; MICROFLUIDICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 84885030518     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1307876110     Document Type: Article

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