The fibre-associated cellulolytic bacterial community in the hindgut of wood-feeding higher termites (Nasutitermes spp.)

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2711-2722

  Mikaelyan, Aram ^a   Strassert, Jürgen F H ^a   Tokuda, Gaku ^b   Brune, Andreas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FIBROBACTERES; ISOPTERA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); NASUTITERMES; NASUTITERMES CORNIGER; PROKARYOTA; SPIROCHAETALES; SPIROCHAETES; TERMITIDAE;

EID: 84906944047     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12425     Document Type: Article

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