Termites and subsocial roaches inherited many bacterial-borne carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) from their common ancestor

Abstract Termites digest wood using Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes (CAZymes) produced by gut bacteria with whom they have cospeciated at geological timescales. Whether CAZymes were encoded in the genomes of their ancestor’s gut bacteria and transmitted to modern termites or acquired more recently from...

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Published in:	Communications Biology
Main Authors:	Tereza Beránková, Jigyasa Arora, Johanna Romero Arias, Aleš Buček, Gaku Tokuda, Jan Šobotník, Simon Hellemans, Thomas Bourguignon
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Nature Portfolio 2024-11-01
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-07146-w