Name: "Candidatus Bodonicaedibacter vickermanii" corrig. Midha et al. 2021
Category: Species
Proposed as: Candidatus
Etymology:vic.ker.ma’ni.i.N.L. gen. masc. n.vickermanii, named after Keith Vickerman (1933- 2016), author of seminal microscopic studies of diverse kinetoplastids, including Bodo saltans
🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus "Candidatus Bodonicaedibacter" corrig. Midha et al. 2021.Publication:
Midha S, Rigden DJ, Siozios S, Hurst GDD, Jackson AP. Bodo saltans (Kinetoplastida) is dependent on a novel Paracaedibacter-like endosymbiont that possesses multiple putative toxin-antitoxin systems. ISME J 2021; 15:1680-1694. 🇬🇧
🧍 This species was confirmed as the type species of its monotypic genus in Appendix 1 of Candidatus List No. 6.