ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018
Fiber-associated spirochetes are major agents of hemicellulose degradation in the hindgut of wood-feeding higher termites.
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Abstract
Symbiotic digestion of lignocellulose in wood-feeding higher termites (family Termitidae) is a two-step process that involves endogenous host cellulases secreted in the midgut and a dense bacterial community in the hindgut compartment. The genomes of the bacterial gut microbiota encode diverse cellulolytic and hemicellulolytic enzymes, but the contributions of host and bacterial symbionts to lignocellulose degradation remain ambiguous. Our previous studies of
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