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Bacteria > Gram-Negative Bacteria > Gram-Negative Facultatively Anaerobic Rods > Enterobacteriaceae > Photorhabdus
Bacteria > Proteobacteria > Gammaproteobacteria > Enterobacteriaceae > Photorhabdus

Preferred term

Photorhabdus  

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Entry terms

  • Photorhabdus luminescens

Scope note

  • A genus of gram-negative bacteria existing symbiotically with nematodes of the family Heterorhabditidae (see RHABDITOIDEA). These nematodes infect a variety of soil-dwelling insects. Upon entering an insect host, the nematode releases Photorhabdus from its intestinal tract and the bacterium establishes a lethal septicemia in the insect.

History note

  • 2000; for XENORHABDUS LUMINESCENS use XENORHABDUS 2001-2002

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D020637

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