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

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

“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

Don't make a mista(g)ke: is tag switching an overlooked source of error in amplicon pyrosequencing studies?

(2012) Tor Carlsen et al.   Fungal Ecology

Fast, accurate error-correction of amplicon pyrosequences using Acacia

(2012) Lauren Bragg et al.   NATURE METHODS

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

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

(2011) Yuichi Hongoh   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

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

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

Analysis of Extensive [FeFe] Hydrogenase Gene Diversity Within the Gut Microbiota of Insects Representing Five Families of Dictyoptera

(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

Reducing the Effects of PCR Amplification and Sequencing Artifacts on 16S rRNA-Based Studies

(2011) Patrick D. Schloss et al.   PLoS One

Termites (Isoptera): Their Phylogeny, Classification, and Rise to Ecological Dominance

(2010) Michael S. Engel et al.   AMERICAN MUSEUM NOVITATES

FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments

(2010) Morgan N. Price et al.   PLoS One

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

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

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

Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

(2009) P. D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

(2009) Satoko Noda et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Strict cospeciation of devescovinid flagellates andBacteroidalesectosymbionts in the gut of dry-wood termites (Kalotermitidae)

(2009) Mahesh S. Desai et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

CandidatusDesulfovibrio trichonymphae, a novel intracellular symbiont of the flagellateTrichonympha agilisin termite gut

(2008) Tomoyuki Sato et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

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

The Ribosomal Database Project: improved alignments and new tools for rRNA analysis

(2008) J. R. Cole et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

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