Termites in the woodwork.
Termites eat and digest wood, but how do they do it? Combining advanced genomics and proteomics techniques, researchers have now shown that microbes found in the termites' hindguts possess just the right tools.
Chaffron
Samuel
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Institute of Molecular Biology and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.
von Mering
Christian
C
D000818:Animals; D023281:Genomics; D020049:Isoptera / Q000235:genetics / Q000382:microbiology / Q000502:physiology*; D040901:Proteomics; D014934:Wood