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Ascomycete diversity in soil-feeding termite nests and soils from a tropical rainforest.
Environmental microbiology - 1 May 2004
Roose-Amsaleg Céline, Brygoo Yves, Harry Myriam
Abstract excerpt
Molecular microbial ecology has revealed remarkable biodiversity - prokaryotic and eukaryotic - in numerous soil environments. However, no culture-independent surveys of the termitosphere exists, although termites dominate tropical rainforests. Here, we focused on soil feeders, building nests with their soil-born faeces, enriched with clay-organic complexes, thus contributing to the improvement of soil fertility....
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