Publications of M. S. Desai

Desai, M. S.; Brune, A.: Bacteroidales ectosymbionts of gut flagellates shape the nitrogen-fixing community in dry-wood termites. ISME Journal 6 (7), pp. 1302 - 1313 (2012)

Desai, M. S.; Strassert, J. F. H.; Meuser, K.; Hertel, H.; Ikeda-Ohtsubo, W.; Radek, R.; Brune, A.: Strict cospeciation of devescovinid flagellates and Bacteroidales ectosymbionts in the gut of dry-wood termites (Kalotermitidae). Environmental Microbiology 12 (8), pp. 2120 - 2132 (2010)

Strassert, J. F. H.; Desai, M. S.; Radek, R.; Brune, A.: Identification and localization of the multiple bacterial symbionts of the termite gut flagellate Joenia annectens. Microbiology-SGM 156, pp. 2068 - 2079 (2010)

Strassert, J. F. H.; Desai, M. S.; Brune, A.; Radek, R.: The true diversity of devescovinid flagellates in the termite Incisitermes marginipennis. Protist 160, pp. 522 - 535 (2009)

Ikeda-Ohtsubo, W.; Desai, M.; Stingl, U.; Brune, A.: Phylogenetic diversity of 'Endomicrobia' and their specific affiliation with termite gut flagellates. Microbiology 73 (10), pp. 3458 - 3465 (2007)

Desai, M.: Bacterial symbionts of termite gut flagellates: cospeciation and nitrogen fixation in the gut of dry-wood termites. Dissertation, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg (2008)