Compositional and functional characterisation of biomass-degrading microbial communities in guts of plant fibre- and soil-feeding higher termites.

Martyna MarynowskaXavier GouxDavid Sillam-DussèsCorinne Rouland-LefèvreRashi HalderPaul WilmesPiotr GawronYves RoisinPhilippe DelfosseMagdalena Całusińska

Published in: Microbiome (2020)

Our results provide valuable insight into the bacterial component of the termite gut system and significantly expand the inventory of termite prokaryotic genes participating in the deconstruction of plant biomass. Video Abstract.

Keyphrases

wastewater treatment
anaerobic digestion
plant growth
genome wide
cell wall
gene expression
dna methylation
genome wide identification
transcription factor