Species code:	BLOPB
Taxonomy:	Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Gammaproteobacteria; Enterobacteriales; Enterobacteriaceae; ant endosymbionts; Candidatus Blochmannia (TaxID: 291272) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Blochmannia pennsylvanicus is an obligate endosymbiont of the ant Camponotus pennsylvanicus. Its gene content differs from the one of Blochmannia floridanus only by 3.6 %.
Properties:	Presence of flagella: No Interaction: Animal endosymbiont in Camponotus pennsylvanicus (ant) Number of membranes: 2 Number of inteins:0
Statistics:	Number of BLOPB entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 610 (248 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 362 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure:	Chromosome EMBL accession number CP000016 (circular; 791,654 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews).
Reference(s):	[1] PubMed=16077009; [ NCBI , EBI , Israel , Japan ] Degnan P.H., Lazarus A.B., Wernegreen J.J. ; "Genome sequence of Blochmannia pennsylvanicus indicates parallel evolutionary trends among bacterial mutualists of insects."; Genome Res. 15:1023-1033(2005).
Web links:	CBS: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/GenomeAtlas/show-genus.php?kingdom=Bacteria&GLgenus=Blochmannia&GLspecies=pennsylvanicus&GLstrain=BPEN coliBASE: http://xbase.bham.ac.uk/colibase/genome.pl?id=999 Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=txid291272%5Borgn%5D GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Bpen_BPEN PEDANT: http://pedant.gsf.de:3345/pedant3htmlview/pedant3view?Method=start_method&Db=p3_p13875_Blo_penns TIGR CMR: http://cmr.tigr.org/tigr-scripts/CMR/GenomePage.cgi?database=ntcp07  EBI Proteome Analysis page

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