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Symbiotic digestion of lignocellulose in termite guts
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The high efficiency of their minute intestinal bioreactors makes termites promising models for the industrial conversion of lignocellulose into microbial products and the production of biofuels.Abstract:
Termites depend on an intricate symbiosis with flagellated protists, archaea and bacteria in their guts for the digestion of lignocellulose. Here, Andreas Brune gives an overview of the diversity of the termite microbiota and highlights important microbial processes in the gut microecosystem and their implications for host nutrition.read more
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