| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
To elucidate characteristics of microbial community in its formation process, we crossed three termite species harboring species-specific symbiotic microbial compositions, and examined community structure of newly formed symbiont community of their hybrids. In most cases symbiont compositions in the hybrid termites converged to a stable composition of a particular parent species. Antibiotic treatment had significant negative effects on the establishment of symbiotic protist compositions of the hybrid colonies. These results probably reflect long-term complex co-adaptaion between symbiotic microorganisms. We also clarified effects of temperature on the sybiotic protist community structures and protist faunae of the field colonies of two host termite species.
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