Blattabacterium

Blattabacterium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Bacteroidetes
Class: Flavobacteria
Order: Flavobacteriales
Family: Blattabacteriaceae
Genus: Blattabacterium
Hollande & Favre, 1931
Species
  • B. cuenoti (Mercier, 1906)
  • B. relictus Clark & Kambhampati, 2003
  • B. clevelandi Clark & Kambhampati, 2003
  • B. punctulatus Clark & Kambhampati, 2003

Blattabacterium in an obligate mutualistic endosymbiont bacterium that is believed to inhabit all species of cockroach studied to date, with the exception of Nocticola species.[1] B. cuenoti is traditionally considered the only species in the genus Blattabacterium,[2] which is in turn the only genus in the family Blattabacteriaceae,[3] although three new species have been described from different species of Cryptocercus: B. relictus in Cryptocercus relictus, B. clevelandi in Cryptocercus clevelandi and Blattabacterium punctulatus in Cryptocercus darwini, Cryptocercus garciai, Cryptocercus punctulatus and Cryptocercus wrighti.

References

  1. ^ Nathan Lo, Tiziana Beninati, Fred Stone, James Walker & Luciano Sacchi (2007). "Cockroaches that lack Blattabacterium endosymbionts: the phylogenetically divergent genus Nocticola". Biology Letters 3 (3): 327–330. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2006.0614. PMC 2464682. PMID 17376757. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2464682. 
  2. ^ Jeffrey W. Clark & Srinivas Kambhampati (2003). "Phylogenetic analysis of Blattabacterium, endosymbiotic bacteria from the wood roach, Cryptocercus (Blattodea: Cryptocercidae), including a description of three new species". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 26 (1): 82–88. doi:10.1016/S1055-7903(02)00330-5. PMID 12470940. 
  3. ^ D. R. Boone & R. W. Castenholz, ed (2001). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. Volume 1. The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria (2nd ed.). New York: Springer-Verlag. pp. 465–466. ISBN 978-0-387-98771-2.