Research Article

Isolation of Fungi and Bacteria Associated with the Guts of Tropical Wood-Feeding Coleoptera and Determination of Their Lignocellulolytic Activities

Table 4

Taxonomic distribution of the bacterial isolates obtained in this study. The number of isolates at the phylum and genera level is shown for each of the coleopteran families.

ClassGenusCerElaPasScaTenTotal

Actinobacteria Arthrobacter11
Cellulomonas11
Leifsonia11
Leucobacter33
Microbacterium11
Streptomyces257
Tsukamurella11

α-Proteobacteria Novosphingobium11
Rhizobium22

β-Proteobacteria Achromobacter112
Chromobacterium11

γ-Proteobacteria Acinetobacter241310
Alishewanella11
Azorhizophilus11
Citrobacter22
Dyella11
Enterobacter441312
Erwinia11
Klebsiella112
Kluyvera11
Pseudomonas211419
Raoultella314
Salmonella22
Serratia4222212
Stenotrophomonas112

Firmicutes Bacillus44610327
Enterococcus325
Lactococcus1528
Lysinibacillus1247
Paenibacillus1113
Staphylococcus112

Flavobacteria Chryseobacterium11

Fusobacteria Sebaldella11

Total1820414610135

Cer: Cerambycidae, Ela: Elateridae, Pas: Passalidae, Sca: Scarabaeidae, and Ten: Tenebrionidae.
Genera that presented positive enzymatic activities in more than four pathways.