The cockroach origin of the termite gut microbiota: Patterns in bacterial community structure reflect major evolutionary events

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2261-2269

  Dietrich, Carsten ^a   Köhler, Tim ^a   Brune, Andreas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; RNA; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

BACTERIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; BACTERIAL LINEAGES; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; EARLY CRETACEOUS; EVOLUTIONARY EVENTS; LIGNOCELLULOSIC SUBSTRATES; PHYLOGENETIC TREES; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIUM; BIOREACTOR; COCKROACH; COMMON ANCESTRY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; SUBSTRATE; SYMBIONT; TERMITE;

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOTA; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COCKROACH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETICS; ISOPTERA; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; BIOTA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COCKROACHES; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; ISOPTERA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84896045393     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.04206-13     Document Type: Article

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