Table 2.
Actinobacteria isolated from termite nests
| Termite nests | Streptomyces | Non-Streptomyces* | Unidentified genera | Total | Number of bioactive isolates that antagonized at least one test organism† | |||||||||
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| a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | ||||
| Mound (3) | 22 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 37 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | 8 | 4 | 5 | |||||||||||
| 3 | 4 | 3 | 6 | |||||||||||
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| Carton (3) | 43 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 67 | 9 | 11 | 8 | 7 |
| 3 | 7 | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||
| 5 | 4 | 4 | 6 | |||||||||||
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| Subterranean (2) | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| Total | 73 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 118 | 32 | 47 | 27 | 35 |
The numbers in parentheses refer to the number of termite nest samples.
*
The non-Streptomyces group comprised (a) Amycolatopsis, (b) Kitasatospora, (c) Microbispora, (d) Micromonospora, (e) Nocardia, (f) Pseudonocardia, and (g) Streptosporangium.
†
Test organisms comprised (h) Gram positive bacteria, (i) Gram negative bacteria, (j) yeasts, and (k) filamentous fungi.