Symbiotic Plant Biomass Decomposition in Fungus-Growing Termites

Termites mitigate the effects of drought in tropical rainforest

(2019) L. A. Ashton et al.   SCIENCE

Food Preferences and Foraging Strategies of Wood-Feeding Termites in a West African Savanna

(2018) A. B. N’Dri et al.   CURRENT SCIENCE

Foraging Phenology of the Fungus-Growing Termite Odontotermes formosanus (Blattodea: Termitidae)

(2018) Chun-I Chiu et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Functional metagenomics reveals abundant polysaccharide-degrading gene clusters and cellobiose utilization pathways within gut microbiota of a wood-feeding higher termite

(2018) Ning Liu et al.   ISME Journal

NMR studies on lignocellulose deconstructions in the digestive system of the lower termite Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki

(2018) Didi Tarmadi et al.   Scientific Reports

Can interaction specificity in the fungus-farming termite symbiosis be explained by nutritional requirements of the fungal crop?

(2018) Rafael R. da Costa et al.   Fungal Ecology

Fiber-associated spirochetes are major agents of hemicellulose degradation in the hindgut of wood-feeding higher termites

(2018) Gaku Tokuda et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Gut microbial compositions mirror caste‐specific diets in a major lineage of social insects

(2018) Saria Otani et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Lignocellulose pretreatment in a fungus-cultivating termite

(2017) Hongjie Li et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mitochondrial Phylogenomics Resolves the Global Spread of Higher Termites, Ecosystem Engineers of the Tropics

(2016) Thomas Bourguignon et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Expanding the Knowledge on Lignocellulolytic and Redox Enzymes of Worker and Soldier Castes from the Lower Termite Coptotermes gestroi

(2016) João P. L. Franco Cairo et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Potential for Nitrogen Fixation in the Fungus-Growing Termite Symbiosis

(2016) Panagiotis Sapountzis et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Characterization of lignin-degrading enzymes (LDEs) from a dimorphic novel fungus and identification of products of enzymatic breakdown of lignin

(2016) Lipin Dev Mundur Sahadevan et al.   3 Biotech

Characterization of lignin-degrading enzymes (LDEs) from a dimorphic novel fungus and identification of products of enzymatic breakdown of lignin

(2016) Lipin Dev Mundur Sahadevan et al.   3 Biotech

Oligocene Termite Nests with In Situ Fungus Gardens from the Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanzania, Support a Paleogene African Origin for Insect Agriculture

(2016) Eric M. Roberts et al.   PLoS One

The Gut Microbiota of Termites: Digesting the Diversity in the Light of Ecology and Evolution

(2015) Andreas Brune et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Environmental DNA – An emerging tool in conservation for monitoring past and present biodiversity

(2015) Philip Francis Thomsen et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

A new generation of versatile chromogenic substrates for high-throughput analysis of biomass-degrading enzymes

(2015) Stjepan Krešimir Kračun et al.   Biotechnology for Biofuels

Lignocellulose degradation mechanisms across the Tree of Life

(2015) Simon M Cragg et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CHEMICAL BIOLOGY

Age polyethism drives community structure of the bacterial gut microbiota in the fungus-cultivating termite O dontotermes formosanus

(2015) Hongjie Li et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Towards an integrated understanding of the consequences of fungus domestication on the fungus-growing termite gut microbiota

(2015) Michael Poulsen   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Classifying the bacterial gut microbiota of termites and cockroaches: A curated phylogenetic reference database (DictDb)

(2015) Aram Mikaelyan et al.   SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Foraging activity and population estimation ofMicrotermes mycophagus Desneux (Isoptera: Termitidae: Macrotermitinae) in Multan, Punjab, Pakistan

(2015) Naeem Iqbal et al.   ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH

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

(2015) Nurdyana Abdul Rahman et al.   Microbiome

The Cockroach Origin of the Termite Gut Microbiota: Patterns in Bacterial Community Structure Reflect Major Evolutionary Events

(2014) Carsten Dietrich et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The Evolutionary History of Termites as Inferred from 66 Mitochondrial Genomes

(2014) Thomas Bourguignon et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Identifying the core microbial community in the gut of fungus-growing termites

(2014) Saria Otani et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Symbiotic digestion of lignocellulose in termite guts

(2014) Andreas Brune   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

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

(2014) Michael Poulsen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

16S-rRNA-based analysis of bacterial diversity in the gut of fungus-cultivating termites (Microtermes and Odontotermes species)

(2013) Huxley M. Makonde et al.   ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Function-Based Classification of Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes by Recognition of Short, Conserved Peptide Motifs

(2013) Peter Kamp Busk et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Comparative analysis of fungal genomes reveals different plant cell wall degrading capacity in fungi

(2013) Zhongtao Zhao et al.   BMC GENOMICS

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

(2013) Ning Liu et al.   PLoS One

The fungus-growing termite Macrotermes natalensis harbors bacillaene-producing Bacillus sp. that inhibit potentially antagonistic fungi

(2013) Soohyun Um et al.   Scientific Reports

Impact of environmental factors on the population dynamics, density and foraging activities of Odontotermes lokanandi and Microtermes obesi in Islamabad

(2013) Abdul Sattar et al.   SpringerPlus

Intestinal microbiota associated with differential feed conversion efficiency in chickens

(2012) Dragana Stanley et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Ecological interactions drive evolutionary loss of traits

(2012) Jacintha Ellers et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Cell wall composition throughout development for the model grass Brachypodium distachyon

(2012) David M. Rancour et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Fungiculture or Termite Husbandry? The Ruminant Hypothesis

(2012) Tânia Nobre et al.   Insects

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

(2011) Yuichi Hongoh   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Microbiome of Fungus-Growing Termites: a New Reservoir for Lignocellulase Genes

(2010) Ning Liu et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Diversity and Genomes of Uncultured Microbial Symbionts in the Termite Gut

(2010) Yuichi HONGOH   BIOSCIENCE BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

EVOLUTIONARY TRANSITIONS IN ENZYME ACTIVITY OF ANT FUNGUS GARDENS

(2010) Henrik H. De Fine Licht et al.   EVOLUTION

A complex journey: transmission of microbial symbionts

(2010) Monika Bright et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Loss of lipid synthesis as an evolutionary consequence of a parasitic lifestyle

(2010) B. Visser et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

An Insect Herbivore Microbiome with High Plant Biomass-Degrading Capacity

(2010) Garret Suen et al.   PLoS Genetics

The underground passages and storage pits used in foraging by a nest of the termite Macrotermes michaelseni in Kajiado, Kenya

(2009) Johanna P. E. C. Darlington   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

(1,3;1,4)-β-D-Glucans in Cell Walls of the Poaceae, Lower Plants, and Fungi: A Tale of Two Linkages

(2009) Rachel A. Burton et al.   Molecular Plant

Gene-centric metagenomics of the fiber-adherent bovine rumen microbiome reveals forage specific glycoside hydrolases

(2009) Jennifer M. Brulc et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Vertical transmission as the key to the colonization of Madagascar by fungus-growing termites?

(2009) T. Nobre et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

High Symbiont Relatedness Stabilizes Mutualistic Cooperation in Fungus-Growing Termites

(2009) D. K. Aanen et al.   SCIENCE

Cellulose biosynthesis and deposition in higher plants

(2008) Neil G. Taylor   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Cell-wall carbohydrates and their modification as a resource for biofuels

(2008) Markus Pauly et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

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