| phylogenetic analysis of blattabacterium, endosymbiotic bacteria from the wood roach, cryptocercus (blattodea: cryptocercidae), including a description of three new species. | members of the cockroach genus cryptocercus are wood-feeding, subsocial insects that live in temperate forests of the nearctic and palaearctic. at present, nine species are recognized: cryptocercus relictus and cryptocercus kyebangensis in eastern asia and russia, cryptocercus primarius and cryptocercus matilei in southwestern china, cryptocercus clevelandi in the western usa, and cryptocercus darwini, cryptocercus garciai, cryptocercus punctulatus, and cryptocercus wrighti in the eastern usa. l ... | 2003 | 12470940 |
| selective sweeps in cryptocercus woodroach antifungal proteins. | we identified the antifungal gene termicin in three species of cryptocercus woodroaches. cryptocercus represents the closest living cockroach lineage of termites, which suggests that the antifungal role of termicin evolved prior to the divergence of termites from other cockroaches. an analysis of cryptocercus termicin and two β-1,3-glucanase genes (gnbp1 and gnbp2), which appear to work synergistically with termicin in termites, revealed evidence of selection in these proteins. we identified the ... | 2016 | 27623784 |
| population genetics of wood-feeding cockroaches in the genus cryptocercus. | members of the genus cryptocercus are xylophagous, wingless, subsocial cockroaches that inhabit decaying logs in temperate forests. given their winglessness, subsocial living, and the patchy distribution of food resources (decomposing logs), it is likely that cryptocercus populations are substructured. allozyme variation at eight polymorphic loci was assayed for 10 subpopulations of cryptocercus darwini and 13 subpopulations of cryptocercus wrighti, both of which are distributed in the appalachi ... | 2008 | 15994421 |