Deep divergence and rapid evolutionary rates in gut-associated Acetobacteraceae of ants.

Brown, Bryan P; Wernegreen, Jennifer J

Brown, Bryan P; Wernegreen, Jennifer J.

Affiliation

Brown BP; Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Box 3382, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.
Wernegreen JJ; Center for Genomic and Computational Biology, Duke University, Box 3382, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.

BMC Microbiol ; 16(1): 140, 2016 07 11.

Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27400652

Subject(s)

Acetobacteraceae/genetics; Acetobacteraceae/physiology; Ants/microbiology; Biological Evolution; Gastrointestinal Microbiome; Acetobacteraceae/isolation & purification; Animals; Ants/classification; Base Sequence; Biodiversity; DNA, Bacterial/genetics; DNA, Ribosomal/genetics; Evolution, Molecular; Genes, Bacterial; Host Specificity; Microbial Consortia; Phylogeny; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/genetics; Sequence Alignment; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Symbiosis

Key words

Acetic acid bacteria; Eusociality; Gut microbiota; Insects; Phylogenetic diversification

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Full text: 1 Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Ants / Acetobacteraceae / Biological Evolution / Gastrointestinal Microbiome Type of study: Prognostic_studies / Risk_factors_studies Limits: Animals Language: En Journal: BMC Microbiol Journal subject: MICROBIOLOGIA Year: 2016 Type: Article Affiliation country: United States

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