16S-rRNA-based analysis of bacterial diversity in the gut of fungus-cultivating termites (Microtermes and Odontotermes species)

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 869-883

  Makonde, Huxley M ^a,b,c   Boga, Hamadi I ^b   Osiemo, Zipporah ^b   Mwirichia, Romano ^b   Mackenzie, Lucy M ^d   Göker, Markus ^a   Klenk, Hans Peter ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

^b JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Kenya)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MOMBASA   (Kenya)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene; Biodiversity; Macrotermitinae; Termites symbiont mutualism

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

16S RRNA GENE; ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BACTEROIDETES; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; FIRMICUTES; INTESTINE FLORA; ISOPTERA; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROTERMES; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ODONTOTERMES; ODONTOTERMES SOMALIENSIS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLUM; PLANCTOMYCETES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPIROCHETE; SYNERGISTETES; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; FIRMICUTES; FUNGI; ISOPTERA; MACROTERMITINAE; MICROTERMES; ODONTOTERMES; PLANCTOMYCETES; PROTEOBACTERIA; SPIROCHAETES;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; ISOPTERA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84886599113     PISSN: 00036072     EISSN: 15729699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10482-013-0001-7     Document Type: Article

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