RNA-seq reveals cooperative metabolic interactions between two termite-gut spirochete species in co-culture

• Published in: The ISME Journal Vol. 5; no. 7; pp. 1133 - 1142
• Main Authors: Rosenthal, Adam Z, Matson, Eric G, Eldar, Avigdor, Leadbetter, Jared R
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.07.2011; Oxford University Press; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 631/181/2481; 631/326/2565/855; 631/326/41/547; 692/698/2741/2135; Animals; Biological Evolution; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Coculture Techniques; Cultivation; Ecology; Evolutionary Biology; Gastrointestinal Tract - microbiology; Gene Expression Profiling; Genes, Bacterial; Hydrogen - metabolism; Insects; Isoptera; Isoptera - microbiology; Life Sciences; Lignin - metabolism; Metabolites; Microbial Ecology; Microbial Genetics and Genomics; Microbiology; Molecular Sequence Data; Original; original-article; RNA, Bacterial - genetics; Sequence Analysis, RNA; Spirochetes; Symbiosis; Treponema; Treponema - genetics; Treponema - growth & development; Treponema - metabolism; Wood; RNA Seq; co-culture; symbiosis; termite-gut

The hindguts of wood-feeding termites typically contain hundreds of microbial species. Together with their insect host, these gut microbes degrade lignocellulose into usable catabolites. Although past research revealed many facets of the stepwise flow of metabolites in this scheme, not much is known...