Layers of symbiosis--visualizing the termite hindgut microbial community |
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| Authors: | Leadbetter Jared |
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| Institution: | Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, California Institute of Technology |
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| Abstract: | Jared Leadbetter takes us for a nature walk through the diversity of life resident in the termite hindgut--a microenvironment containing 250 different species found nowhere else on Earth. Jared reveals that the symbiosis exhibited by this system is multi-layered and involves not only a relationship between the termite and its gut inhabitants, but also involves a complex web of symbiosis among the gut microbes themselves. |
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| Keywords: | Microbiology issue 4 microbial community symbiosis hindgut |
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