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NOTES: Arsenophonus nasoniae gen. nov., sp. nov., the Causative Agent of the Son-Killer Trait in the Parasitic Wasp Nasonia vitripennis

Robert L. Gherna^1,*, John H. Werren², William Weisburg^3,, Rose Cote¹, Carl R. Woese³, Linda Mandelco³ and Donald J. Brenner⁴

¹Department of Bacteriology, American Type Culture Collection, Rockville, Maryland 20852
²Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627
³Department of Genetics and Development, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801
⁴Meningitis and Special Pathogens Branch, Division of Bacterial Diseases, Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia 30333

^* Corresponding author.

ABSTRACT

A bacterial strain was previously isolated from a parasitic wasp, Nasonia vitripennis, and shown to cause the son-killer trait in wasps. The 16S rRNA sequence, DNA probes, and whole-cell fatty acid profiles suggest that it belongs to the family Enterobacteriaceae. The strain's properties indicate a closer relationship to the genus Proteus than to the genus Escherichia, Citrobacter, or Salmonella. We propose the name Arsenophonus nasoniae gen. nov., sp. nov., for this bacterium. Strain SKI4 (ATCC 49151) is the type strain.

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