Staurojoenina and other symbionts in Neotermes from San Salvador Island, Bahamas.
Staurojoenina, a conspicuous hypermastigote protist (undocumented in any Neotermes) and other hindgut symbionts are reported for the first time in Neotermes nr. jouteli, a dry-wood-eating termite (Kalotermitidae), from the red mangroves at the northeast corner of San Salvador Island. Other distinctive protists (Macrotrichomonas, Metadevescovina, two morphotypes of small trichomonads) and bacteria (Arthromitus-type filamentous spore-formers) symbionts were also found in this termite. This Staurojoenina sp. replete with epibiotic bacterial symbionts is not distinguished from previously described species of Staurojoenina.
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Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003-5810, USA.
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D000818:Animals; D001419:Bacteria / Q000145:classification* / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000648:ultrastructure; D001444:Bahamas; D004725:Endospore-Forming Bacteria; D056890:Eukaryota / Q000145:classification* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D007313:Insecta / Q000382:microbiology*; D007422:Intestines / Q000382:microbiology*; D013045:Species Specificity; D013144:Spirochaetales; D013559:Symbiosis / Q000502:physiology*; D016834:Trichomonadida