Biochar Ingestion Is Associated with Hindgut Symbiotic Disruption and Mortality in Coptotermes formosanus: A Proposed Protist-to-Bacterial Cascade
The data suggest that biochar ingestion is associated with a sequence of hindgut symbiont disruption: major cellulolytic protozoa declined, bacterial community structure changed, and host transcriptome showed exploratory stress/catabolic trends, but because these responses were measured in parallel and no continuous ca...