| Entry | T01747 |
| Org code | wgl |
| Name | Wigglesworthia glossinidia, endosymbiont of Glossina morsitans morsitans (Yale colony) |
| Annotation | yes |
| Taxonomy | TAX:1142511 |
| Lineage | Bacteria; Pseudomonadati; Pseudomonadota; Gammaproteobacteria; Enterobacterales; Erwiniaceae; Wigglesworthia; Wigglesworthia glossinidia |
| Org group | Bacteria; Enterobacteria; other Enterobacterales |
| Brite | KEGG organisms [BR:br08601]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611] |
| Data source | GenBank (Assembly: GCA_000247565.1 Complete Genome) |
| Keywords | Endosymbiont |
| Comment | Tsetse flies (Diptera: Glossinidae) harbor an obligate endosymbiont, Wigglesworthia, which has coevolved with the Glossina radiation.
Isolated from Glossina morsitans morsitans. |
| Chromosome | Circular (GB: CP003315) |
| Statistics | Number of protein genes: 618
Number of RNA genes: 44 |
| Created | 2012 |
| Reference | PMID: 22334516 |
| Authors | Rio RV, Symula RE, Wang J, Lohs C, Wu YN, Snyder AK, Bjornson RD, Oshima K, Biehl BS, Perna NT, et al. |
| Title | Insight into the transmission biology and species-specific functional capabilities of tsetse (Diptera: glossinidae) obligate symbiont Wigglesworthia. |
| Journal | MBio 3:e00240-11 (2012)
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00240-11 |
