title: Layers of symbiosis--visualizing the termite hindgut microbial community.
abstract: Jared Leadbetter takes us for a nature walk through the diversity of life resident in the termite hindgut--a microenvironment containing 250 different species found nowhere else on Earth. Jared reveals that the symbiosis exhibited by this system is multi-layered and involves not only a relationship between the termite and its gut inhabitants, but also involves a complex web of symbiosis among the gut microbes themselves.
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, California Institute of Technology, USA.
authors.forename: Jared
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Leadbetter
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D020049:Isoptera / Q000382:microbiology*; D008827:Microbiological Phenomena; D013559:Symbiosis / Q000502:physiology*