The fungus-growing termite Macrotermes natalensis harbors bacillaene-producing Bacillus sp. that inhibit potentially antagonistic fungi

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Um, Soohyun ^a   Fraimout, Antoine ^b,c   Sapountzis, Panagiotis ^b   Oh, Dong Chan ^a   Poulsen, Michael ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLAENE; POLYENE;

ANIMAL; BACILLUS; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ISOPTERA; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS; TERMITOMYCES;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS; ISOPTERA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; POLYENES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS; TERMITOMYCES;

EID: 84888168209     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03250     Document Type: Article

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