Bartonella apis

Bartonella apis
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Hyphomicrobiales
Family: Bartonellaceae
Genus: Bartonella
Species:
B. apis
Binomial name
Bartonella apis
Kešnerová et al. 2016[1]
Type strain
DSM 29779, NCIMB 14961, BBC0104, BBC0108, PEB0122, PEB0149, PEB0150[2]

Bartonella apis is a bacterium from the genus Bartonella. Bartonella apis was first isolated from the gut of the honey bee (Apis mellifera) in 2015 by Swiss researchers at the University of Lausanne.[3][4] To date, it has been found only as a gut symbiont of honey bees, including the Western honey bee (Apis mellifera), and the Eastern or Asiatic honey bee (Apis cerana).

  1. ^ Parte, A.C. "Bartonella". LPSN.
  2. ^ "Bartonella apis". www.uniprot.org.
  3. ^ Kešnerová, Lucie; Moritz, Roxane; Engel, Philipp (1 January 2016). "Bartonella apis sp. nov., a honey bee gut symbiont of the class Alphaproteobacteria". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 66 (1): 414–421. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.000736. PMID 26537852.
  4. ^ Parker, Charles Thomas; Garrity, George M (2016). Parker, Charles Thomas; Garrity, George M (eds.). "Nomenclature Abstract for Bartonella apis Kešnerová et al. 2016". The NamesforLife Abstracts. doi:10.1601/nm.28133.