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
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Proteobacteria
Class:
Gammaproteobacteria
Order:
Enterobacterales
Family:
Morganellaceae
Genus:
Arsenophonus

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

A. nasoniae[1]

References
  1. LPSN bacterio.net
  2. Gherna, Robert L., et al. "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 (1991): 563-565.
  3. Nováková E., Hypša V., Moran A. 2009. "Arsenophonus, an emerging clade of intracellular symbionts with a broad host distribution" BMC Microbiology, 9:143
  4. 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. PMID 4067323

Further reading
  • Thao, MyLo Ly; Baumann, Paul (2004). "Evidence for Multiple Acquisition of Arsenophonus by Whitefly Species (Sternorrhyncha: Aleyrodidae)". Current Microbiology. 48 (2): 140–144. doi:10.1007/s00284-003-4157-7. ISSN 0343-8651. PMID 15057483.
  • Grindle, Nathan, et al. "Identification of Arsenophonus-type bacteria from the dog tick Dermacentor variabilis. " Journal of invertebrate pathology 83.3 (2003): 264-266.


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