On the taxonomic status of the intracellular bacterium Wolbachia pipientis: should this species name include the intracellular bacteria of filarial nematodes?

Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2007 Aug;57(Pt 8):1677-1678. doi: 10.1099/ijs.0.65248-0.

Authors

Kenneth Pfarr¹, Jeremy Foster², Barton Slatko², Achim Hoerauf¹, Jonathan A Eisen³

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Medical, Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, University Clinic Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25, D-53105 Bonn, Germany.
² Molecular Parasitology Division, New England Biolabs, 240 County Road, Ipswich, MA 01938, USA.
³ UC Davis Genome Center, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.

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Publication types

Comment
Letter

MeSH terms

Animals
Filarioidea / microbiology*
Wolbachia / classification*
Wolbachia / genetics