Arsenophonus nasoniae

Arsenophonus nasoniae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Proteobacteria
Class: Gammaproteobacteria
Order: Enterobacteriales
Family: Enterobacteriaceae
Genus: Arsenophonus
Species: A. nasoniae
Binomial name
Arsenophonus nasoniae
Gherna et al. 1991

Arsenophonus nasoniae is a species of bacteria. It infects Nasonia vitripennis, and is the cause of the son-killer trait in wasps.[1] Strain SKI4 (ATCC 49151) is the type strain.[2]

References

  1. Huger AM, Skinner SW, Werren JH (November 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.
  2. Gherna, R. L.; Werren, J. H.; Weisburg, W.; Cote, R.; Woese, C. R.; Mandelco, L.; Brenner, D. J. (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. ISSN 0020-7713.

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