Exploring the effect of plant substrates on bacterial community structure in termite fungus-combs.

Fungus-cultivating termites are successful herbivores largely rely on the external symbiotic fungus-combs to decompose plant polysaccharides. The comb harbors both fungi and bacteria. However, the complementary roles and functions of the bacteria are out of the box. To this purpose, we look into dif...

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Main Authors: Shiyou Liang, Chengpan Wang, Farhan Ahmad, Xuejie Yin, Yin Hu, Jianchu Mo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232329