Candidatus Blochmannia nearcticus (nom. nud.)

Taxonomy ID: 251545 (for references in articles please use NCBI:txid251545)

current name

'Candidatus Blochmannia nearcticus' , candidatus name  ¹⁾ , nom. nud.  ²⁾

equivalent:

Blochmannia nearcticus

NCBI BLAST name: enterobacteria
Rank: species
Genetic code: Translation table 11 (Bacterial, Archaeal and Plant Plastid)

Lineage(full)

cellular organisms; Bacteria; Pseudomonadati; Pseudomonadota; Gammaproteobacteria; Enterobacterales; Enterobacteriaceae; Enterobacteriaceae incertae sedis; ant, tsetse, mealybug, aphid, etc. endosymbionts; ant endosymbionts; Candidatus Blochmanniella

Notes:

• 1) A provisional name for well characterised but as-yet uncultured organisms.
• 2) 'Nom. nud.' (= nomen nudum) refers to a name published without a diagnosis or description.

Comments and References:

unpublished name This taxonomic name was not validly published at the time of submission of the corresponding sequence entry or entries.

Degnan PH et al. (2004) Degnan, P.H., Lazarus, A.B., Brock, C.D., and Wernegreen, J.J. "Host-symbiont stability and fast evolutionary rates in an ant-bacterium association: cospeciation of camponotus species and their endosymbionts, candidatus blochmannia." Syst. Biol. (2004) 53(1):95-110.

Murray RG & Schleifer KH (1994) Murray, R.G., and Schleifer, K.H. "Taxonomic notes: a proposal for recording the properties of putative taxa of procaryotes." Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1994) 44(1):174-176.

Murray RG & Stackebrandt E (1995) Murray, R.G., and Stackebrandt, E. "Taxonomic note: implementation of the provisional status Candidatus for incompletely described procaryotes." Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1995) 45(1):186-187.

Wernegreen JJ et al. (2010) Wernegreen, J.J., Kauppinen, S.N., and Degnan, P.H. "Slip into something more functional: selection maintains ancient frameshifts in homopolymeric sequences." Mol. Biol. Evol. (2010) 27(4):833-839.