Yersinia

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

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Enterobacteriaceae – certain bacteria hosted especially by rodents, some pathogenic to humans.
2. 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

• Yersiniops

References

• (genus of Enterobacteriaceae):
  • Yersinia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Yersinia (Enterobacteriaceae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
  • Yersinia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• (genus of Mantidae):
  • Yersinia (Mantidae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies