Yersinia
See also: yersinia
Translingual
Yersinia pestis, with fluorescent stain
Etymology
From French Yersin (“a surname”) + -ia; after Swiss bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin for the plague bacterium and relatives; after Swiss entomologist Alexander Yersin for the mantis.
Proper noun
Yersinia f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Enterobacteriaceae – certain bacteria hosted especially by rodents, some pathogenic to humans.
- A taxonomic genus within the family Mantidae – the single species Yersinia mexicana.
Hypernyms
- (genus of Enterobacteriaceae): Prokaryota - superkingdom; Bacteria - kingdom; Negibacteria - subkingdom; Proteobacteria - phylum; Gammaproteobacteria - class; Enterobacteriales - order; Enterobacteriaceae - family
- (genus of Mantidae): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa - superphylum; Arthropoda - phylum; Hexapoda - subphylum; Insecta - class; Pterygota - subclass; Neoptera - infraclass; Polyneoptera - superorder; Mantodea - order; Mantidae - family; Amelinae - subfamily
Hyponyms
- (genus of Enterobacteriaceae): Yersinia aldovae, Yersinia aleksiciae, Yersinia bercovieri, Yersinia enterocolitica, Yersinia entomophaga, Yersinia frederiksenii, Yersinia intermedia, Yersinia kristensenii, Yersinia mollaretii, Yersinia pestis (bubonic plague bacterium), Yersinia philomiragia, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, Yersinia rohdei, Yersinia ruckeri (species)
- (genus of Mantidae): Yersinia mexicana (species)
See also
References
- (genus of Enterobacteriaceae):
- (genus of Mantidae):
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