Characterization of the core and caste-specific microbiota in the termite, Reticulitermes flavipes

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue FEB, 2016, Pages

  Benjamino, Jacquelynn ^a   Graf, Joerg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene; Core microbiota; Illumina amplicon sequencing; Reticulitermes flavipes; Termite caste microbiota

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; LIGNOCELLULOSE; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; ISOPTERA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; OXYMONADIDA; PARABASALIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTIST; RETICULITERMES FLAVIPES; SYMBIOSIS; TREPONEMA;

EID: 84962119088     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00171     Document Type: Article

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