Mixed-Mode Transmission Shapes Termite Gut Community Assemblies

Rafael Rodrigues da Costa, Michael Thomas-Poulsen*

*Corresponding author for this work
5 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Understanding how microbial symbiont community assemblies are shaped over evolutionary time is challenging. The current state of the art involves exploring similarities and differences in communities within and between host species, often aiming to link these to host ecology and evolution. However, this masks the evolutionary histories of individual bacterial lineages.

Original languageEnglish
JournalTrends in Microbiology
Volume26
Issue number7
Pages (from-to)557-559
Number of pages3
ISSN0966-842X
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018

Keywords

  • amplicon sequencing
  • evolution
  • gut bacteria
  • rRNA metabarcoding
  • symbiosis
  • transmission

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