Table 1.
Morphological and biochemical characteristics of different isolates.
Table 2.
Utilization of various carbohydrates by different isolates.
Table 3.
Fibrolytic enzyme activities of bacterial isolates.
Table 4.
Filter paper degradation potential of different isolates.
Fig 1.
16s rRNA amplification of isolates (TM1-TM24) of size ~1500 bp and L is 1Kb Ladder.
Table 5.
16S rDNA sequencing based identification.
Fig 2.
Effect of inclusion of bacterial isolates on in vitro dry matter (IVDMD) digestibility at 48 h post incubation.
Table 6.
Fermentation attributes total short chain fatty acid production.
Fig 3.
Main phyla abundance of fibrolytic bacteria isolated from gut of wood eating lower termite (Coptotermes heimi).
Fig 4.
Distribution of fibrolytic bacteria identified in the gut of wood eating lower termite (Coptotermes heimi) at family level.
Fig 5.
Phylogentic tree based on the 16S rRNA partial sequences of the isolates.
Scale bar = 1 inferred nucleotide substitution per 50 nucleotides.