title: Diversity of formyltetrahydrofolate synthetases in the guts of the wood-feeding cockroach Cryptocercus punctulatus and the omnivorous cockroach Periplaneta americana.
abstract: We examined the diversity of a marker gene for homoacetogens in two cockroach gut microbial communities. Formyltetrahydrofolate synthetase (FTHFS or fhs) libraries prepared from a wood-feeding cockroach, Cryptocercus punctulatus, were dominated by sequences that affiliated with termite gut treponemes. No spirochete-like sequences were recovered from the omnivorous roach Periplaneta americana, which was dominated by Firmicutes-like sequences.
authors.affiliation: W. M. Keck Laboratories, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
authors.forename: Elizabeth A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Ottesen
authors.forename: Jared R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Leadbetter
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001419:Bacteria / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics*; D044822:Biodiversity; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D003058:Cockroaches / Q000382:microbiology*; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D005574:Formate-Tetrahydrofolate Ligase / Q000235:genetics*; D041981:Gastrointestinal Tract / Q000382:microbiology; D054892:Metagenome; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010526:Periplaneta / Q000382:microbiology*; D010802:Phylogeny; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017385:Sequence Homology
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D005574:Formate-Tetrahydrofolate Ligase