Metagenomic Insights into Metabolic Capacities of the Gut Microbiota in a Fungus-Cultivating Termite (Odontotermes yunnanensis)

Ning Liu; Lei Zhang; Haokui Zhou; Meiling Zhang; Xing Yan; Qian Wang; Yanhua Long; Lei Xie; Shengyue Wang; Yongping Huang; Zhihua Zhou

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0069184

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Metagenomic Insights into Metabolic Capacities of the Gut Microbiota in a Fungus-Cultivating Termite (Odontotermes yunnanensis)

Ning Liu,

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Insect Developmental and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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Lei Zhang,

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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Haokui Zhou,

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Meiling Zhang,

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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Xing Yan,

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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Qian Wang,

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Insect Developmental and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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Yanhua Long,

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, College of life science, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China
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Lei Xie,

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Insect Developmental and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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Shengyue Wang,

Affiliation Chinese National Human Genome Center at Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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Yongping Huang,

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Insect Developmental and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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Zhihua Zhou

* E-mail: zhouzhihua@sippe.ac.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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Metagenomic Insights into Metabolic Capacities of the Gut Microbiota in a Fungus-Cultivating Termite (Odontotermes yunnanensis)

Ning Liu,
Lei Zhang,
Haokui Zhou,
Meiling Zhang,
Xing Yan,
Qian Wang,
Yanhua Long,
Lei Xie,
Shengyue Wang,
Yongping Huang

Published: July 17, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0069184

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