Endosymbiotic Methanobrevibacter species Living in Symbiotic Protists of the Termite Reticulitermes speratus Detected by Fluorescent in Situ Hybridization

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 120-127

  Hara, Kurt ^a   Shinzato, Naoya ^b   Oshima, Tairo ^a   Yamagishi, Akihiko ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dinenympha parva; endosymbiotic Methanobrevibacter; fluorescence in situ hybridization; Microjoenia sp; Reticulitermes speratus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84966380764     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.19.120     Document Type: Article

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