Arsenophonus nasoniae

Arsenophonus nasoniae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Gammaproteobacteria
Order: Enterobacterales
Family: Morganellaceae
Genus: Arsenophonus
Species:
A. nasoniae
Binomial name
Arsenophonus nasoniae
Gherna et al. 1991

Arsenophonus nasoniae is a species of bacterium which was previously isolated from Nasonia vitripennis, a species of parasitoid wasp.[1] These wasps are generalists which afflict the larvae of parasitic carrion flies such as blowflies, houseflies and flesh flies.[2] A. nasoniae belongs to the phylum Pseudomonadota and family Morganellaceae. The genus Arsenophonus, has a close relationship to the Proteus (bacterium) rather than to that of Salmonella and Escherichia.[1] The genus is composed of gammaproteobacterial, secondary-endosymbionts which are gram-negative.[3] Cells are non-flagellated, non-motile, non-spore forming and form long to highly filamentous rods.[1] Cellular division is exhibited through septation.[1] The name 'Arsenophonus nasoniae gen. nov., sp. nov.' was therefore proposed for the discovered bacterium due to its characteristics and its microbial interaction with N. vitripennis. The type strain of A. nasoniae is Strain SKI4 (ATCC 49151).[1]

  1. ^ a b c d e Gherna RL, Werren JH, Weisburg W, Cote R, Woese CR, Mandelco L, Brenner DJ (1991). "NOTES: Arsenophonus nasoniae gen. nov., sp. nov., the Causative Agent of the Son-Killer Trait in the Parasitic Wasp Nasonia vitripennis". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 41 (4): 563–565. doi:10.1099/00207713-41-4-563.
  2. ^ Werren, John H.; Loehlin, David W. (October 2009). "The Parasitoid Wasp Nasonia: An Emerging Model System With Haploid Male Genetics". Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2009 (10): pdb.emo134. doi:10.1101/pdb.emo134. ISSN 1940-3402. PMC 2916733. PMID 20147035.
  3. ^ Trowbridge RE, Dittmar K, Whiting MF (January 2006). "Identification and phylogenetic analysis of Arsenophonus- and Photorhabdus-type bacteria from adult Hippoboscidae and Streblidae (Hippoboscoidea)". Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. 91 (1): 64–8. doi:10.1016/j.jip.2005.08.009. PMID 16289111.