Name: "Wolbachia massiliensis" Laidoudi et al. 2020

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: mas.si’li.en.sis. L. fem. adj. massiliensis, from Massilia, the Latin name of Marseille, France, where the organism was first grown, identified and characterized

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CSUR P2929; PL13; wChem-PL13

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16S rRNA gene: KX155505 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Laidoudi Y, Levasseur A, Medkour H, Maaloum M, Ben Khedher M, Sambou M, Bassene H, Davoust B, Fenollar F, Raoult D, et al. An Earliest Endosymbiont, Wolbachia massiliensis sp. nov., Strain PL13 from the Bed Bug (Cimex hemipterus), Type Strain of a New Supergroup T. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:0.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Wolbachia Hertig 1936 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Laidoudi Y, Levasseur A, Medkour H, Maaloum M, Ben Khedher M, Sambou M, Bassene H, Davoust B, Fenollar F, Raoult D, et al. An Earliest Endosymbiont, Wolbachia massiliensis sp. nov., Strain PL13 from the Bed Bug (Cimex hemipterus), Type Strain of a New Supergroup T. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:0.

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Record number: 24944