Research article

Complex coevolutionary history of symbiotic Bacteroidales bacteria of various protists in the gut of termites

Satoko Noda^1,³, Yuichi Hongoh^1,⁴, Tomoyuki Sato^1,⁵ and Moriya Ohkuma^1,²^*

¹ Ecomolecular Biorecycling Science Research Team, RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan

² Microbe Division/Japan Collection of Microorganisms, RIKEN Bioresource Center, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan

³ Current address: Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi 400-8510, Japan

⁴ Current address: Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan

⁵ Current address: Research Institute of Genome-based Biofactory, Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Hokkaido 062-8517, Japan

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9:158 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-158

Published: 9 July 2009