Metabolic collaboration between the termite host and its symbionts
makes the hindgut an efficient bioreactor, capable of efficiently
liberating sugar from cellulose and hemicellulose sequestered in
lignocellulose (Reviewed in: Breznak and Brune, 1994; Brune, 2014;
Brune and Ohkuma, 2011; Ohkuma, 2003).