Complementary symbiont contributions to plant decomposition in a fungus-farming termite

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 40, 2014, Pages 14500-14505

  Poulsen, Michael ^a   Hu, Haofu ^b   Li, Cai ^b,c   Chen, Zhensheng ^b   Xu, Luohao ^b   Otani, Saria ^a   Nygaard, Sanne ^a   Nobre, Tania ^d,h   Klaubauf, Sylvia ^e   M Schindler, Philipp ^f   Hauser, Frank ^a   Pan, Hailin ^b   Yang, Zhikai ^b   Sonnenberg, Anton S M ^d   Wilhelm De Beer, Z ^g   Zhang, Yong ^b   Wingfield, Michael J ^g   Grimmelikhuijzen, Cornelis J P ^a   De Vries, Ronald P ^e   Korb, Judith ^f,i   Aanen, Duur K ^d   Wang, Jun ^a,b   Boomsma, Jacobus J ^a   Zhang, Guojie ^a,b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYSACCHARIDE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GLYCOSIDASE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS SPORE; IN VITRO STUDY; INSECT GENOME; LITTER DECOMPOSITION; MACROTERMES; MACROTERMES NATALENSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBIONT; TERMITOMYCES; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CLASSIFICATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; ISOPTERA; MALE; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FEMALE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; ISOPTERA; MALE; METAGENOME; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; PLANTS; POLYSACCHARIDES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS; TERMITOMYCES;

EID: 84941896284     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1319718111     Document Type: Article

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