Symbiotic digestion of lignocellulose in termite guts

Lignocellulose-degrading enzymes from termites and their symbiotic microbiota

(2013) Jinfeng Ni et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

Comparative Metagenomic and Metatranscriptomic Analysis of Hindgut Paunch Microbiota in Wood- and Dung-Feeding Higher Termites

(2013) Shaomei He et al.   PLoS One

Metagenomic Insights into Metabolic Capacities of the Gut Microbiota in a Fungus-Cultivating Termite (Odontotermes yunnanensis)

(2013) Ning Liu et al.   PLoS One

Patterns of [FeFe] Hydrogenase Diversity in the Gut Microbial Communities of Lignocellulose-Feeding Higher Termites

(2012) Nicholas R. Ballor et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

“Methanoplasmatales,” Thermoplasmatales-Related Archaea in Termite Guts and Other Environments, Are the Seventh Order of Methanogens

(2012) Kristina Paul et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

High-Resolution Analysis of Gut Environment and Bacterial Microbiota Reveals Functional Compartmentation of the Gut in Wood-Feeding Higher Termites (Nasutitermes spp.)

(2012) Tim Köhler et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The Bacterial Community in the Gut of the Cockroach Shelfordella lateralis Reflects the Close Evolutionary Relatedness of Cockroaches and Termites

(2012) Christine Schauer et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

‘Candidatus Arthromitus’ revised: segmented filamentous bacteria in arthropod guts are members of Lachnospiraceae

(2012) Claire L. Thompson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

‘CandidatusAncillula trichonymphae’, a novel lineage of endosymbioticActinobacteriain termite gut flagellates of the genusTrichonympha

(2012) Jürgen F. H. Strassert et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Colonization of termite hindgut walls by oxymonad flagellates and prokaryotes in Incisitermes tabogae, I. marginipennis and Reticulitermes flavipes

(2012) Stephanie Tamschick et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Physicochemical conditions and metal ion profiles in the gut of the fungus-growing termite Odontotermes formosanus

(2012) Hongjie Li et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Parabasalia with Improved Taxon Sampling and New Protein Markers of Actin and Elongation Factor-1α

(2012) Satoko Noda et al.   PLoS One

Pyrolysis–mass spectrometry confirms enrichment of lignin in the faeces of a wood-feeding termite, Zootermopsis nevadensis and depletion of peptides in a soil-feeder, Cubitermes ugandensis

(2012) B.S. Griffiths et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Evidence for Cascades of Perturbation and Adaptation in the Metabolic Genes of Higher Termite Gut Symbionts

(2012) X. Zhang et al.   mBio

Formyltetrahydrofolate Synthetase Gene Diversity in the Guts of Higher Termites with Different Diets and Lifestyles

(2011) Elizabeth A. Ottesen et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Genomic and Physiological Characterization of the Verrucomicrobia Isolate Diplosphaera colitermitum gen. nov., sp. nov., Reveals Microaerophily and Nitrogen Fixation Genes

(2011) John T. Wertz et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Genome Shrinkage and Loss of Nutrient-Providing Potential in the Obligate Symbiont of the Primitive Termite Mastotermes darwiniensis

(2011) Zakee L. Sabree et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Disruption of the Termite Gut Microbiota and Its Prolonged Consequences for Fitness

(2011) Rebeca B. Rosengaus et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

SOM genesis: microbial biomass as a significant source

(2011) Anja Miltner et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

In situ lignocellulosic unlocking mechanism for carbohydrate hydrolysis in termites: crucial lignin modification

(2011) Jing Ke et al.   Biotechnology for Biofuels

Toward the functional analysis of uncultivable, symbiotic microorganisms in the termite gut

(2011) Yuichi Hongoh   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Nitrate reduction, nitrous oxide formation, and anaerobic ammonia oxidation to nitrite in the gut of soil-feeding termites (Cubitermes and Ophiotermes spp.)

(2011) David Kamanda Ngugi et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Influence of termites on ecosystem functioning. Ecosystem services provided by termites

(2011) Pascal Jouquet et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

Genome Economization in the Endosymbiont of the Wood Roach Cryptocercus punctulatus Due to Drastic Loss of Amino Acid Synthesis Capabilities

(2011) Alexander Neef et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Bacteroidales ectosymbionts of gut flagellates shape the nitrogen-fixing community in dry-wood termites

(2011) Mahesh S Desai et al.   ISME Journal

Genomic Analysis Reveals Multiple [FeFe] Hydrogenases and Hydrogen Sensors Encoded by Treponemes from the H2-Rich Termite Gut

(2011) Nicholas R. Ballor et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Anaerobic Carbon Monoxide Dehydrogenase Diversity in the Homoacetogenic Hindgut Microbial Communities of Lower Termites and the Wood Roach

(2011) Eric G. Matson et al.   PLoS One

Ants and termites increase crop yield in a dry climate

(2011) Theodore A. Evans et al.   Nature Communications

Diversity of Formyltetrahydrofolate Synthetases in the Guts of the Wood-Feeding Cockroach Cryptocercus punctulatus and the Omnivorous Cockroach Periplaneta americana

(2010) E. A. Ottesen et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Nitrogen mineralization, denitrification, and nitrate ammonification by soil-feeding termites: a 15N-based approach

(2010) David Kamanda Ngugi et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Genes for selenium dependent and independent formate dehydrogenase in the gut microbial communities of three lower, wood-feeding termites and a wood-feeding roach

(2010) Xinning Zhang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Phenol-oxidizing laccases from the termite gut☆

(2010) M.R. Coy et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Proteome insights into the symbiotic relationship between a captive colony of Nasutitermes corniger and its hindgut microbiome

(2010) Kristin E Burnum et al.   ISME Journal

Phylogenetic Analysis of Cellulolytic Enzyme Genes from Representative Lineages of Termites and a Related Cockroach

(2010) Nemuri Todaka et al.   PLoS One

Animal digestive strategies versus anaerobic digestion bioprocesses for biogas production from lignocellulosic biomass

(2010) Ali Bayané et al.   REVIEWS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND BIO-TECHNOLOGY

Putatively free-living ‘Endomicrobia’- ancestors of the intracellular symbionts of termite gut flagellates?

(2010) Wakako Ikeda-Ohtsubo et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Cellulolytic Systems in Insects

(2009) Hirofumi Watanabe et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

The Ultramicrobacterium "Elusimicrobium minutum" gen. nov., sp. nov., the First Cultivated Representative of the Termite Group 1 Phylum

(2009) O. Geissinger et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Parallel metatranscriptome analyses of host and symbiont gene expression in the gut of the termite Reticulitermes flavipes

(2009) Aurélien Tartar et al.   Biotechnology for Biofuels

Complex coevolutionary history of symbiotic Bacteroidales bacteria of various protists in the gut of termites

(2009) Satoko Noda et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Morphology, Phylogeny, and Diversity ofTrichonympha(Parabasalia: Hypermastigida) of the Wood-Feeding CockroachCryptocercus punctulatus

(2009) KEVIN J. CARPENTER et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Codon optimization prevents premature polyadenylation of heterologously-expressed cellulases from termite-gut symbionts in Aspergillus oryzae

(2009) Shiho Sasaguri et al.   JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Nitrogen recycling and nutritional provisioning by Blattabacterium, the cockroach endosymbiont

(2009) Z. L. Sabree et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genome, transcriptome, and secretome analysis of wood decay fungusPostia placentasupports unique mechanisms of lignocellulose conversion

(2009) Diego Martinez et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Novel lineages of Planctomycetes densely colonize the alkaline gut of soil-feeding termites (Cubitermes spp.)

(2008) Tim Köhler et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Treponema isoptericolens sp. nov., a novel spirochaete from the hindgut of the termite Incisitermes tabogae

(2008) S. Droge et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Cospeciation of termite gut flagellates and their bacterial endosymbionts:Trichonymphaspecies and ‘CandidatusEndomicrobium trichonymphae’

(2008) WAKAKO IKEDA-OHTSUBO et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Complete genome of the uncultured Termite Group 1 bacteria in a single host protist cell

(2008) Y. Hongoh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Lignin degradation in wood-feeding insects

(2008) S. M. Geib et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Inheritance and diversification of symbiotic trichonymphid flagellates from a common ancestor of termites and the cockroach Cryptocercus

(2008) M. Ohkuma et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Genome of an Endosymbiont Coupling N2 Fixation to Cellulolysis Within Protist Cells in Termite Gut

(2008) Y. Hongoh et al.   SCIENCE