Ecology of Prokaryotic Microbes in the Guts of Wood- and Litter-Feeding Termites

By J. Breznak. 2000

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Role of the Termite Gut Microbiota in Symbiotic Digestion (2010, background): “It has been suggested that an attachment to the hindgut cuticle may protect against predation or prevent washout from the gut, which may compensate methanogens for the negative effects of hydrogen limitation and exposure to inflowing oxygen (Breznak 2000).”
The role of yeasts as insect endosymbionts. (2005, background): “Cascade-type metabolism has been reported in the termite and its symbionts (Breznak 2000; Slaytor 2000).”
Origin of termite eusociality: trophallaxis integrates the social, nutritional, and microbial environments (2015, background): “It is the multitude of host-microbial units that serve as the bioconversion machine, and trophallaxis that acts as the circulatory system (Emerson, 1939; Noirot, 1982; Breznak, 2000; Fujita et al., 2001; Machida et al., 2001; Nalepa et al., 2001; Fujita, 2004; Bignell, 2011).”
Insect-Fungal Associations: Ecology and Evolution (2005, background): “Cascade-type metabolism has been reported in the termite and its symbionts (Breznak 2000; Slaytor 2000).”