Arsenophonus

Arsenophonus is a genus of Morganellaceae, of the Gammaproteobacteria.[2] Arsenophonus are an increasingly discovered symbiont of insects from a diversity of insect taxa. Arsenophonus species are usually male-killers or mutualistic endosymbionts.[3] Arsenophonus nasoniae infects the Nasonia parasitic wasps.[4] Up to now there is only one species of this genus known (Arsenophonus nasoniae).[1]

Arsenophonus
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Arsenophonus

Gherna et al. 1991
Type species
Arsenophonus nasoniae[1]
Species

A. nasoniae[1]

References

  1. LPSN lpsn.dsmz.de
  2. Gherna, Robert L.; et al. (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 Bacteriology. 41 (4): 563–565. doi:10.1099/00207713-41-4-563.
  3. Nováková, E.; Hypša, V.; Moran, A. (2009). "Arsenophonus, an emerging clade of intracellular symbionts with a broad host distribution". BMC Microbiology. 9: 143. doi:10.1186/1471-2180-9-143. PMC 2724383. PMID 19619300.
  4. Huger, AM; Skinner, SW; Werren, JH (1985). "Bacterial infections associated with the son-killer trait in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia (= Mormoniella) vitripennis (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)". Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. 46 (3): 272–80. doi:10.1016/0022-2011(85)90069-2. PMID 4067323.

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