The origin of protistan symbionts in termites and cockroaches: A phylogenetic perspective

Philippe Grandcolas (1) , Pierre Deleporte (2)

1 ISYEB - Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité
2 EVE - Ethologie, éVolution, Ecologie

The controversy over whether protist symbionts of Cryptocercus and termites were inherited from a common ancestor or transferred secondarily has been long standing. We present here the first phylogenetic test of these hypotheses and show that the transfer hypothesis is better supported.

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]; Biologie animale

Philippe Grandcolas, Pierre Deleporte. The origin of protistan symbionts in termites and cockroaches: A phylogenetic perspective. Cladistics, 1996, 12 (1), pp.93--98. ⟨10.1111/j.1096-0031.1996.tb00195.x⟩. ⟨hal-01320199⟩