Cephaloticoccus

Cephaloticoccus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Verrucomicrobiota
Class:	Opitutae
Order:	Opitutales
Family:	Opitutaceae
Genus:	Cephaloticoccus Lin et al. 2016 [1]
Type species
Cephaloticoccus primus Lin et al. 2016
Species
C. capnophilus C. primus

Cephaloticoccus is a Gram-negative and non-motile genus of bacteria from the family of Opitutaceae which occur in the guts of Cephalotes ants. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

See also

• List of bacterial orders
• List of bacteria genera

References

1. Parte, A.C. "Cephaloticoccus". LPSN .
2. "Cephaloticoccus". www.uniprot.org.
3. Parker, Charles Thomas; Garrity, George M (2016). Parker, Charles Thomas; Garrity, George M (eds.). "Nomenclature Abstract for Cephaloticoccus Lin et al. 2016". The NamesforLife Abstracts. doi:10.1601/nm.28861.
4. Lin, Jonathan Y.; Russell, Jacob A.; Sanders, Jon G.; Wertz, John T. (August 2016). "Cephaloticoccus gen. nov., a new genus of 'Verrucomicrobia' containing two novel species isolated from Cephalotes ant guts". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 66 (8): 3034–3040. doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.001141 . PMID   27154284.
5. Wertz, John T.; Béchade, Benoît (2020). "Symbiont-mediated degradation of dietary carbon sources in social herbivorous insects". Mechanisms Underlying Microbial Symbiosis. Advances in Insect Physiology. Vol. 58. pp. 63–109. doi:10.1016/bs.aiip.2020.04.001. ISBN   978-0-08-102987-9.