Abstract: Bacterial endosymbionts of protozoa were often described as new species by protozoologists mainly on the basis of few morphological characters and partly by host specificity. Many of these species have never been validated by prokaryotic microbiologists whose taxonomic rules are quite different from those of protozoologists, who use the Zoological Code of Nomenclature. "Caedibacter macronucleorum" Fokin and Gortz 1993, an endosymbiont of Paramecium duboscqui, belongs to this category. Here we provide the molecular characterization of this organism and of its host P. duboscqui strain Ku4-8. Bacterial 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis proved that "C. macronucleorum" belongs to the Alphaproteobacteria. It is closely related to Caedibacter caryophilus but not to Caedibacter taeniospiralis, which belongs to the Gammaproteobacteria. "Caedibacter macronucleorum" and C. caryophilus 16S rRNA genes show a similarity value of 99%. This high 16S rRNA sequence similarity and the lack of ...

Molecular characterization of the obligate endosymbiont "Caedibacter macronucleorum" Fokin and Gortz, 1993 and of its host Paramecium duboscqui strain Ku4-8

FOKIN, SERGEY;PETRONI, GIULIO
2006-01-01

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Abstract: Bacterial endosymbionts of protozoa were often described as new species by protozoologists mainly on the basis of few morphological characters and partly by host specificity. Many of these species have never been validated by prokaryotic microbiologists whose taxonomic rules are quite different from those of protozoologists, who use the Zoological Code of Nomenclature. "Caedibacter macronucleorum" Fokin and Gortz 1993, an endosymbiont of Paramecium duboscqui, belongs to this category. Here we provide the molecular characterization of this organism and of its host P. duboscqui strain Ku4-8. Bacterial 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis proved that "C. macronucleorum" belongs to the Alphaproteobacteria. It is closely related to Caedibacter caryophilus but not to Caedibacter taeniospiralis, which belongs to the Gammaproteobacteria. "Caedibacter macronucleorum" and C. caryophilus 16S rRNA genes show a similarity value of 99%. This high 16S rRNA sequence similarity and the lack of ...
2006
Schrallhammer, M; Fokin, Sergey; SCHLEIFER K., H; Petroni, Giulio
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