What is Wolbachia?
{{italictitle}} {{Taxobox | name = ''Wolbachia'' | image = Wolbachia.png | image_caption = Transmission electron micrograph of ''Wolbachia'' within an insect cell | regnum = [[Bacteria]] | phylum = [[Proteobacteria]] | classis = [[Alphaproteobacteria]] | ordo = [[Rickettsiales]] | familia = [[Rickettsiaceae]] | genus = '''''Wolbachia'''''}} '''''Wolbachia''''' is a [[genus]] of [[bacteria]] which infects [[arthropod]] species, including a high proportion of [[insect]]s. It is one of the world's most common parasitic microbes and is possibly the most common reproductive [[parasite]] in the [[biosphere]]. {{biology-stub}} [[category:Gram-negative bacteria]]