Blattabacteriaceae Kambhampati 2012
General information
Name
Blattabacteriaceae
Valid publication
2012
Effective publication
2011
Nomenclature type
Blattabacterium
Etymology
N.L. n. <i>Blattabacterium</i>, type genus of the family; suff. -<i>aceae</i>, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. <i>Blattabacteriaceae</i>, the <i>Blattabacterium</i> family.
Description and emendation
Original Description
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Gram-stain-negative, slightly curved and straight rods that are intracellular symbionts of cockroaches and of one termite species. These endosymbiotic bacteria are found predominantly in specialized cells of insect fat bodies. Nonmotile and non flagellated. They play a role in the conversion of uric acid metabolites into usable nitrogenous compounds under anaerobic conditions. The endosymbionts are transmitted vertically from mother to offspring. They possess highly reduced genomes, with an estimated genome size of approximately 638 kbp.
Subdivision(s)
MID | Name | Rank | Taxon ID |
---|---|---|---|
M020504010101 | Blattabacterium | Genus | 34098 |
References
1
Kamphampati, S. Family II. Blattabacteriaceae fam. nov. In: Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd ed., vol. 4 (The Bacteroidetes, Spirochaetes, Tenericutes (Mollicutes), Acidobacteria, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, Dictyglomi, Gemmatimonadetes, Lentisphaerae, Verrumicrobia, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes) (N.R. Krieg, J.T. Staley, D.R. Brown, B.P. Hedlund, B.J. Paster, N.L. Ward, W. Ludwig, and W.B. Whitman, eds.), Springer-Verlag, New York. (2011) p. 315.
2
Validation List No. 143. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2012) 62:1-4.[DOI:10.1099/ijs.0.039487-0]