Dolan M, Margulis L
Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003-5810, USA.
Symbiosis. 1997;22:229-39.
Staurojoenina, a conspicuous hypermastigote protist (undocumented in any Neotermes) and other hindgut symbionts are reported for the first time in Neotermes nr. jouteli, a dry-wood-eating termite (Kalotermitidae), from the red mangroves at the northeast corner of San Salvador Island. Other distinctive protists (Macrotrichomonas, Metadevescovina, two morphotypes of small trichomonads) and bacteria (Arthromitus-type filamentous spore-formers) symbionts were also found in this termite. This Staurojoenina sp. replete with epibiotic bacterial symbionts is not distinguished from previously described species of Staurojoenina.
首次在来自圣萨尔瓦多岛东北角红树的食干木白蚁(木白蚁科)近尤氏新白蚁(Neotermes nr. jouteli)中报道了一种显著的超鞭毛虫原生生物(在任何新白蚁属中均无记载)——星状乔氏鞭毛虫(Staurojoenina)以及其他后肠共生体。在这种白蚁中还发现了其他独特的原生生物(巨滴虫属(Macrotrichomonas)、后德氏滴虫属(Metadevescovina)、两种小型滴虫的形态型)和细菌共生体(节杆菌属型丝状孢子形成菌)。这种充满体表细菌共生体的星状乔氏鞭毛虫物种与先前描述的星状乔氏鞭毛虫物种并无区别。