A molecular survey of Australian and North American termite genera indicates that vertical inheritance is the primary force shaping termite gut microbiomes

Microbiome

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Abdul Rahman, Nurdyana ^a   Parks, Donovan H ^a   Willner, Dana L ^a,b   Engelbrektson, Anna L ^c,d   Goffredi, Shana K ^e   Warnecke, Falk ^c,f   Scheffrahn, Rudolf H ^g   Hugenholtz, Philip ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^f FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPROPHAGY; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE SEQUENCE; ISOPTERA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOME; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; SAMPLING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ANAEROVORAX; APHIDIDAE; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BUCHNERA (PROTEOBACTERIA); CILIOPHORA; CLEVELANDELLA; COPTOTERMES; DESULFOVIBRIO; DREPANOTERMES; GNATHAMITERMES; HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA; MARGINITERMES; MASTOTERMES; PIRELLULA; POROTERMES; PROTISTA; SCHEDORHINOTERMES; SPOROBACTER; TENUIROSTRITERMES; TERMITIDAE; TREPONEMA;

EID: 84938484046     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20492618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40168-015-0067-8     Document Type: Article

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