Kingdom Bacteria Family Enterobacteriaceae Rank Genus | Class Gammaproteobacteria Phylum Proteobacteria Order Enterobacteriales | |
Similar Hamiltonella defensa, Buchnera aphidicola, Sodalis, Wigglesworthia glossinidia, Spiroplasma | ||
Arsenophonus is a genus of Enterobacteriaceae, of the Gammaproteobacteria. Arsenophonus are an increasingly discovered symbiont of insects from a diversity of insect taxa. Arsenophonus species are usually male-killers or mutualistic endosymbionts. Arsenophonus nasoniae infects the Nasonia parasitic wasps. Up to now there is only one species of this genus known (Arsenophonus nasoniae).
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