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Fluorescence microscopic image of cellulolytic flagellates (Trichonympha species) from the termite gut (Zootermopsis nevadensis). The cell surface and cytoplasm are colonized by symbiotic bacteria; the epibionts (green) and the endobionts (pink) were hybridized with specific oligonucleotide probes. The latter are ‘Endomicrobia’, a unique phylogenetic lineage in the Termite group I phylum. The diameter of the flagellates is approximately 100 μm. Image courtesy Andreas Brune, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany. See the paper by Ikeda-Ohtsubo et al. in the October issue, vol. 153, part 10, pp. 3458–3465.