Name: Orbus wheelerorum Phillips et al. 2024

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: whee.le.ro’rum. N.L. gen. masc. pl. n. wheelerorum, ‘of Wheelers, ’ named after William Morton Wheeler and Marshall R. Wheeler, American biologists, naturalists, and professors who performed research on insects at the University of Texas at Austin, USA

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC TSD-401; lpD04; NCIMB 15520

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16S rRNA gene: OR490962 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Phillips LE, Sotelo KL, Moran NA. Characterization of gut symbionts from wild-caught Drosophila and other Diptera: description of Utexia brackfieldae gen. nov., sp. nov., Orbus sturtevantii sp. nov., Orbus wheelerorum sp. nov, and Orbus mooreae sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6516.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.07180 (N = 2).
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 0 times in PubMed until 2024-10-08.

Parent taxon: Orbus Volkmann et al. 2010

Assigned by: Phillips LE, Sotelo KL, Moran NA. Characterization of gut symbionts from wild-caught Drosophila and other Diptera: description of Utexia brackfieldae gen. nov., sp. nov., Orbus sturtevantii sp. nov., Orbus wheelerorum sp. nov, and Orbus mooreae sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6516.

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Record number: 53703