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Woodworker's digest

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Termites digest wood with the help of their intestinal microorganisms. The first metagenomic analysis of the inhabitants of a termite gut provides insight into this feat of biomass-to-energy conversion.

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Figure 1: Termite territory.

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  1. Andreas Brune is in the Department of Biogeochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, 35043 Marburg, Germany. brune@mpi-marburg.mpg.de,

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