Trichonympha

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Trichonympha

a flagellate PROTOZOAN that is capable of producing CELLULASE (a very rareenzyme in animals), and which lives in the gut of termites, so enabling them to digest wood.

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Molecular characterization of parabasalian symbionts Coronympha clevelandii and Trichonympha subquasilla from the Hawaiian lowland tree termite Incisitermes immigrans.

Proliferation of the invasive termite Coptotermes gestroi (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) on Grand Cayman and overall termite diversity on the Cayman Islands

4) Comprehensive 3D map and proteomics of Trichonympha centriole.

Dissecting the mechanisms governing centriole formation

Ultrastructural changes related to the ingestion and digestion of cellulose by flagellate, Trichonympha agilis.

Food digestion by subterranean termites from the southeastern United States (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

Table 2 A compilation of published reports in which single-cell genomics have been employed in a symbiosis context Host Marine sponge Sharpshooter Termite gut system Aplysina Draeculacephala protest aerophoba minerva Trichonympha agilis Authors Siegl et al.

Exploring symbioses by single-cell genomics

Trichonympha, Holomastigotes, and Sterblomastix (Class: Karyomastigea; Subphylum: Zoomastigophora) were the most abundant.

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For example, the acquisition of the cellulose-digesting protist symbiont Trichonympha by the cockroachlike ancestors of termites brought about an adaptive radiation of this group into a wide diversity of deadwood-consuming niches (Endler and McLellan 1988).

Amelioration of the deleterious pleiotropic effects of an adaptive mutation in Bacillus subtilis