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Discovery and Complete Genome Sequence of a Bacteriophage from an Obligate Intracellular Symbiont of a Cellulolytic Protist in the Termite Gut

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Gut Protozoa: Friends or Foes of the Human Gut Microbiota?

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High-resolution phylogenetic analysis of Endomicrobia reveals multiple acquisitions of endosymbiotic lineages by termite gut flagellates

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Lessons from Digestive-Tract Symbioses Between Bacteria and Invertebrates

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Genome Evolution and Nitrogen Fixation in Bacterial Ectosymbionts of a Protist Inhabiting Wood-Feeding Cockroaches

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

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(2014) Andreas Brune   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Pyrotag Sequencing of the Gut Microbiota of the Cockroach Shelfordella lateralis Reveals a Highly Dynamic Core but Only Limited Effects of Diet on Community Structure

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An overview of parasite-induced behavioral alterations - and some lessons from bats

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Isolation and Characterization of Anaerobic Bacteria for Symbiotic Recycling of Uric Acid Nitrogen in the Gut of Various Termites

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Metabolic Profiling of the Protozoan Parasite Entamoeba invadens Revealed Activation of Unpredicted Pathway during Encystation

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Diversity and Genomes of Uncultured Microbial Symbionts in the Termite Gut

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Description of the basic features of parent-offspring stomodeal trophallaxis in the subsocial wood-feeding cockroach Salganea esakii (Dictyoptera, Blaberidae, Panesthiinae)

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Symbiosis as a source of selectable epigenetic variation: taking the heat for the big guy

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

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

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Virulence evolution and the trade-off hypothesis: history, current state of affairs and the future

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Wood-feeding cockroaches as models for termite evolution (Insecta: Dictyoptera): Cryptocercus vs. Parasphaeria boleiriana

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

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

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