Termite guts harbor a dense and diverse microbiota that is essential for symbiotic digestion.
The major players in lower termites are unique lineages of cellulolytic flagellates, whereas …

Many protist plankton are mixotrophs, combining phototrophy and phagotrophy. Their role in
freshwater and marine ecology has emerged as a major developing feature of plankton …

Termites have long been studied for their symbiotic associations with gut microbes. In the
late nineteenth century, this relationship was poorly understood and captured the interest of …

The hindguts of lower termites and Cryptocercus cockroaches are home to a distinct
community of archaea, bacteria, and protists (primarily parabasalids and some oxymonads) …

The symbiosis between termites and their hindgut protists is mutually obligate and vertically
inherited. It was established by the late Jurassic in the cockroach ancestors of termites as …

Lower-termites are one of the best studied symbiotic systems in insects. Their ability to feed
on a nitrogen-poor, wood-based diet with help from symbiotic microbes has been under …

Many recent breakthroughs in our understanding of termite biology have been facilitated by
“omics” research. Omic science seeks to collectively catalog, quantify, and characterize …

Lower termites harbor in their hindgut complex microbial communities that are involved in
the digestion of cellulose. Among these are protists, which are usually associated with …

Centrioles are polarized microtubule‐based organelles that seed the formation of cilia, and
which assemble from a cartwheel containing stacked ring oligomers of SAS‐6 proteins. A …

The phylum Parabasalia includes very diverse single‐cell organisms that nevertheless
share a distinctive set of morphological traits. Most are harmless or beneficial gut symbionts …