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Symbiotic digestion of lignocellulose in termite guts
  • A. Brune
  • Biology
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • 1 March 2014
TLDR
The high efficiency of their minute intestinal bioreactors makes termites promising models for the industrial conversion of lignocellulose into microbial products and the production of biofuels.
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“Methanoplasmatales,” Thermoplasmatales-Related Archaea in Termite Guts and Other Environments, Are the Seventh Order of Methanogens
TLDR
The results of this study strongly support the idea that the entire clade of “uncultured Thermoplasmatales” in fact represents the seventh order of methanogenic archaea, for which the provisional name “MethanoplasMatales’ is proposed.
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The Termite Gut Microflora as an Oxygen Sink: Microelectrode Determination of Oxygen and pH Gradients in Guts of Lower and Higher Termites
TLDR
The oxic status of the peripheral hindgut lumen and its substantial oxygen consumption, together with previous reports of large numbers of aerobic and facultatively anaerobic bacteria in the hindGut microflora, challenge the notion that termite hindguts are a purely anoxic environment and, togetherwith the steep axial pH gradients in higher termites, refine the concept of this tiny microbial habitat.
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Role of Microorganisms in the Digestion of Lignocellulose by Termites
TLDR
Most of the synthesis of lignocellulose occurs in terrestrial ecosystems where it is balanced, or nearly so, by the decomposition/respiration side of the carbon cycle (63).
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The Cockroach Origin of the Termite Gut Microbiota: Patterns in Bacterial Community Structure Reflect Major Evolutionary Events
TLDR
The bacterial gut microbiota in 34 species of termites and cockroaches was studied using pyrotag analysis of the 16S rRNA genes and it was found that the majority of sequence reads belonged to bacterial lineages that were shared among most host species.
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Microbial Community Structure in Midgut and Hindgut of the Humus-Feeding Larva of Pachnoda ephippiata (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)
TLDR
The gut of the model organism, the humivorous larva of the cetoniid beetle Pachnoda ephippiata, is characterized by strong midgut alkalinity, high concentrations of microbial fermentation products, and the presence of a diverse, yet unstudied microbial community.
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Electron shuttling via humic acids in microbial iron(III) reduction in a freshwater sediment.
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New Mode of Energy Metabolism in the Seventh Order of Methanogens as Revealed by Comparative Genome Analysis of “Candidatus Methanoplasma termitum”
TLDR
The complete genome of “Candidatus Methanoplasma termitum” was sequenced from a highly enriched culture obtained from the intestinal tract of termites and compared it with the previously published genomes of three other strains from the human gut, including the first isolate of the Methanomassiliicoccales.
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Life at the oxic-anoxic interface: microbial activities and adaptations.
TLDR
Three case studies were selected to illustrate the basic situation and the specific characteristics of oxic-anoxic interfaces: sediments, the rhizosphere of aquatic plants, and the intestinal tract of insects.
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The Gut Microbiota of Termites: Digesting the Diversity in the Light of Ecology and Evolution.
TLDR
Whereas the intestinal communities in the closely related cockroaches seem to be shaped primarily by the selective forces of microhabitat and functional niche, the social behavior of termites reduces the stochastic element of community assembly, which facilitates coevolution and may ultimately result in cospeciation.
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