Open AccessLayers of Symbiosis - Visualizing the Termite Hindgut Microbial Community
Author(s) -
Jared R. Leadbetter
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of visualized experiments
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 91
ISSN - 1940-087X
DOI - 10.3791/197
Subject(s) - hindgut , symbiosis , biology , ecology , evolutionary biology , bacteria , paleontology , larva , midgut
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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