EPPO Global Database

Wolbachia pipientis(WOLBPI)

Overview
Code created in: 1998-01-05

Basic information

EPPO Code: WOLBPI
Preferred name: Wolbachia pipientis
Authority: Hertig

Notes

An obligate intracellular symbiont of arthropods.

Sequenced.

Taxonomy

Kingdom Bacteria ( 1BACTK )

Phylum Proteobacteria ( 1PROBP )

Class Alphaproteobacteria ( 1ALPBC )

Order Rickettsiales ( 1RICKO )

Family Anaplasmataceae ( 1ANAPF )

Genus Wolbachia ( 1WOLBG )

Species Wolbachia pipientis ( WOLBPI )