Symbiotic associations between termites and prokaryotes

The Prokaryotes: Prokaryotic Biology and Symbiotic Associations

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 545-577

  Brune, Andreas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

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