| candidatus symbiothrix dinenymphae: bristle-like bacteroidales ectosymbionts of termite gut protists. | many reports have stated that flagellated protists in termite guts harbour ectosymbiotic spirochetes on their cell surface. in this study, we describe another bristle-like ectosymbiont affiliated with the order bacteroidales. the 16s rrna phylotype rs-n74 predominates among bacteroidales clones obtained from the gut of the termite reticulitermes speratus. an rs-n74 phylotype-specific probe was designed in this study and used for detection of the corresponding bacteria in the gut by fluorescence ... | 2007 | 17803785 |