Cryptocercus is a genus of Dictyoptera (cockroaches and allies) and the sole member of its own family Cryptocercidae.[1] Species are known as wood roaches or brown-hooded cockroaches. These roaches are subsocial, their young requiring considerable parental interaction. They also share wood-digesting gut bacteria types with wood-eating termites, and are therefore seen as evidence of a close genetic relationship, that termites are essentially evolved from social cockroaches.[2]
Cryptocercus is especially notable for sharing numerous characteristics with termites, and phylogenetic studies have shown this genus is more closely related to termites than it is to other cockroaches.[3] These two lineages probably shared a common ancestor in the early Cretaceous.[4]
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that termites are closely related to the wood-eating cockroaches (genus Cryptocercus). This hypothesis was originally based on similarity of the symbiotic...
Cryptocercus share similar morphological and social features: for example, most cockroaches do not exhibit social characteristics, but Cryptocercus takes...
termites. The mantids were shown to be the sister group to Blattodea. Cryptocercus also shares characteristics such as species of gut bacteria with the...
Farine (2001). "What does Cryptocercus kyebangensis, n.sp. (Dictyoptera: Blattaria: Polyphagidae) from Korea reveal about Cryptocercus evolution? A study in...
and molecular data pointing to a relationship with the cockroach genus Cryptocercus. According to genetic evidence, the closest living relatives of the Dictyoptera...
Flagellate Faunae between Termites and a Wood-Feeding Cockroach of the Genus Cryptocercus". Microbes and Environments. 19 (3): 215–220. doi:10.1264/jsme2.19.215...
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Cleveland L, Hall S, Sanders E, Collier J (1934). "The Wood-Feeding Roach Cryptocercus, its protozoa, and the symbiosis between protozoa and roach". Memoirs...
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generally omnivorous with the exception of the wood-eating species such as Cryptocercus; these roaches are incapable of digesting cellulose themselves but have...
by different species of cockroaches in the genus Cryptocercus: Blattabacterium relictus in Cryptocercus relictus B. clevelandi in C. clevelandi, and B....
eukaryotes that resides in the hindgut of the wood-feeding cockroach Cryptocercus punctulatus. This genus is known for its distinctive movement that resembles...
species of sea snail Chelonoidis darwini, a species of Galápagos tortoise Cryptocercus darwini, a species of cockroach found in North America Cyrtobill darwini...
halotolerant bacterium isolated from the gut of a wood-eating cockroach (Cryptocercus punctulatus), and reclassification of four species of Spirochaeta as...
Rhinotermitidae, Kalotermitidae, and Hodotermitidae) and in the wood roach, Cryptocercus. It is thought that the common ancestor of lower termites and wood roaches...
thought to have evolved from the same ancestors as the wood roaches (Cryptocercus) in the Permian. Fossil wings have been discovered in the Permian of...
paradox: changes in the intestinal microbiota of the xylophagous cockroach Cryptocercus punctulatus depending on the physiological state of the host". International...
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