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A cellulase gene of termite origin.

scientific article published in July 1998

A digestive beta-glucosidase from the salivary glands of the termite, Neotermes koshunensis (Shiraki): distribution, characterization and isolation of its precursor cDNA by 5'- and 3'-RACE amplifications with degenerate primers.

scientific article published in December 2002

A novel cluster of mariner-like elements belonging to mellifera subfamily from spiders and insects: implications of recent horizontal transfer on the South-West Islands of Japan.

scientific article published on 11 April 2014

A novel glucose-tolerant β-glucosidase from the salivary gland of the termite Nasutitermes takasagoensis.

scientific article published in January 2013

An Efficient Strategy Developed for Next-Generation Sequencing of Endosymbiont Genomes Performed Using Crude DNA Isolated from Host Tissues: A Case Study of Blattabacterium cuenoti Inhabiting the Fat Bodies of Cockroaches

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Animal cellulases.

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Cellulolytic environment in the midgut of the wood-feeding higher termite Nasutitermes takasagoensis ⬇️

scientific article published on November 7, 2011

Cellulose digestion in the wood-eating higher termite, Nasutitermes takasagoensis (Shiraki): distribution of cellulases and properties of endo-beta-1,4-glucanase.

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Characterization of CBM36-containing GH11 endoxylanase NtSymX11 from the hindgut metagenome of higher termite Nasutitermes takasagoensis displaying prominent catalytic activity

scientific article published on 11 January 2019

Does correlation of cellulase gene expression and cellulolytic activity in the gut of termite suggest synergistic collaboration of cellulases?

scientific article published on 26 July 2007

Dual cellulose-digesting system of the wood-feeding termite, Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki.

scientific article published in July 2002

Duplication and soldier-specific expression of geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase genes in a nasute termite Nasutitermes takasagoensis

scientific article published on 20 June 2019

Evidence from multiple gene sequences indicates that termites evolved from wood-feeding cockroaches

scientific article (publication date: 29 June 2000)

Exploration and characterization of genes involved in the synthesis of diterpene defence secretion in nasute termite soldiers.

scientific article published on 17 September 2012

Fiber-associated spirochetes are major agents of hemicellulose degradation in the hindgut of wood-feeding higher termites

scientific article published on 30 November 2018

Genome shrinkage and loss of nutrient-providing potential in the obligate symbiont of the primitive termite Mastotermes darwiniensis

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Heterologous expression and characterization of a glucose-stimulated β-glucosidase from the termite Neotermes koshunensis in Aspergillus oryzae

scientific article published on 6 November 2010

Heterologous expression in Pichia pastoris and characterization of a β-glucosidase from the xylophagous cockroach Panesthia angustipennis spadica displaying high specific activity for cellobiose.

scientific article published on 15 November 2016

Heterologous expression in Pichia pastoris and characterization of an endogenous thermostable and high-glucose-tolerant β-glucosidase from the termite Nasutitermes takasagoensis

scientific article (publication date: June 2012)

Lignocellulose-degrading enzymes from termites and their symbiotic microbiota.

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Maintenance of essential amino acid synthesis pathways in the Blattabacterium cuenoti symbiont of a wood-feeding cockroach

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Major alteration of the expression site of endogenous cellulases in members of an apical termite lineage.

scientific article published in October 2004

Metabolomic profiling of 13C-labelled cellulose digestion in a lower termite: insights into gut symbiont function

scientific article published in August 2014

Molecular cloning and characterization of an endogenous digestive β-glucosidase from the midgut of the fungus-growing termite Macrotermes barneyi

scientific article published in December 2012

Occurrence and recent long-distance dispersal of deep-sea hydrothermal vent shrimps

scientific article (publication date: 22 June 2006)

Parallel and Gradual Genome Erosion in the Blattabacterium Endosymbionts of Mastotermes darwiniensis and Cryptocercus Wood Roaches.

scientific article published in June 2018

Predominant expression and activity of vacuolar H(+)-ATPases in the mixed segment of the wood-feeding termite Nasutitermes takasagoensis

scientific article published on 30 April 2015

Purification and characterization of termite endogenous beta-1,4-endoglucanases produced in Aspergillus oryzae.

scientific article published on 7 August 2010

Purification and partial genome characterization of the bacterial endosymbiont Blattabacterium cuenoti from the fat bodies of cockroaches

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Save Isoptera: a comment on Inward et al

scientific article (publication date: 22 October 2007)

Sexually dimorphic body color is regulated by sex-specific expression of yellow gene in ponerine ant, Diacamma sp.

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Structure of an endoglucanase from termite, Nasutitermes takasagoensis

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Symbiotic "Archaezoa" of the primitive termite Mastotermes darwiniensis still play a role in cellulase production.

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Termites as functional gene resources.

scientific article published on January 2009

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