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Layers of Symbiosis - Visualizing the Termite Hindgut Microbial Community

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11:28 min

May 28th, 2007

May 28th, 2007

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Introduction

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Imaging termite gut microbes different types of microscopy

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Different types of protozoa

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Layers of symbiosis

Jared Leadbetter takes us for a nature walk through the diversity of life resident in the termite hindgut - a microenvironment containing 250 different species found nowhere else on Earth. Jared reveals that the symbiosis exhibited by this system is multi-layered and involves not only a relationship between the termite and its gut inhabitants, but also involves a complex web of symbiosis among the gut microbes themselves.

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