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. 2006 Mar;35(1):57-68.
doi: 10.1016/j.asd.2005.06.003. Epub 2005 Oct 25.

Communities of microbes that inhabit the changing hindgut landscape of a subsocial beetle

James B Nardi  1 , Charles Mark Bee, Lou Ann Miller, Nhu H Nguyen, Sung-Oui Suh, Meredith Blackwell
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Communities of microbes that inhabit the changing hindgut landscape of a subsocial beetle

James B Nardi et al. Arthropod Struct Dev. 2006 Mar.

Abstract

Microbes that have adopted endosymbiotic life styles not only have evolved to live in specialized habitats within living organisms, but the living habitats also have evolved to accommodate them. The hindgut of the passalid beetle (Odontotaenius disjunctus) is lined with a cuticle that undergoes dramatic topographic changes during the life cycle of the beetle. This manuscript addresses the changes that have been observed in time and space for the cuticular landscape of the hindgut as well as for the microbial communities within the hindgut. Microbial identity is based on morphology, culture, and extrapolation from previously reported passalid gut inhabitants.

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