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.

Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005

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These studies report several genera of bacteria like Bacillus, Acinetobacter, Clostridium, Paenibacillus, Trichonympha, Actinomycetes, etc.

An Insight into the Celluloytic Potential of Three Strains of Bacillus Spp. Isolated from Benthic Soil of Aquaculture Farms in East Kolkata Wetlands, India

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

Chaetomium, Fusarium, Trichoderma, Penicillium, and Aspergillus are some of the reported fungal species and Trichonympha, Clostridium, Actinomycetes, Bacteroides succinogenes, Butyrivibriofibrisolvens, and Ruminococcus albus are some of the reported bacterial species responsible for cellulosic biomass hydrolysation [23].

Parametric optimization of cultural conditions for carboxymethyl cellulase production using pretreated rice straw by Bacillus sp. 313SI under stationary and shaking conditions

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)

The phylogenetic position of the isolates relative to known trichomonads was determined by constructing phylogenetic trees rooted using Trichonympha agilis as the outgroup.

Redfield, "Phylogenetic placement of Trichonympha," Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol.

New hosts of Simplicimonas similis and Trichomitus batrachorum identified by 18S ribosomal RNA gene sequences

(2008) isolated a single Trichonympha agilis protist cell from the termite Reticulitermes speratus, via micromanipulation (Fig.

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