transovarian

This is the first molecular survey of the microbial composition in eggs and larval stages of termites and provides information on whether the gut microbiota of later instars originates from transovarian transmission through the eggs or from early inoculation of the offspring.

2015 October 8, “Profiling the Succession of Bacterial Communities throughout the Life Stages of a Higher Termite Nasutitermes arborum (Termitidae, Nasutitermitinae) Using 16S rRNA Gene Pyrosequencing”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Synonyms: transovarial