{{Short description|Genus of bacteria}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Asaia | authority = Yamada et al. 2000<ref name=Asaia>[https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/asaia LPSN lpsn.dsmz.de]</ref> | type_species = ''Asaia bogorensis''<ref name=Asaia/> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision_ref = <ref name=Asaia/> | subdivision = ''Asaia astilbis''<br/> ''Asaia bogorensis''<br/> ''Asaia krungthepensis''<br/> ''Asaia lannensis''<br/> ''Asaia prunellae''<br/> ''Asaia siamensis''<br/> ''Asaia spathodeae'' }}
'''''Asaia''''' is a genus of Gram-negative, aerobic and rod-shaped bacteria from the family Acetobacteraceae which occur in tropical plants.<ref name=Asaia/><ref name=Zach>{{cite book|last1=Zach N.|first1=Adelman|title=Genetic Control of Malaria and Dengue|date=2015|publisher=Academic Press|isbn=978-0-12-800405-0}}</ref><ref name=Miller>{{cite book|last1=Miller|first1=Kostas Bourtzis, Thomas A.|title=Insect symbiosis.|date=2009|publisher=CRC Press|location=Boca Raton, Florida|isbn=978-1-4200-6411-7}}</ref><ref>[https://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/91914 UniProt]</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Ed.: Stanley Falkow|title=Proteobacteria : Alpha and Beta subclasses|date=2006|publisher=Springer|location=New York, NY|isbn=0-387-25495-1|edition=3.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Brenner|first1=Don J. | last2=Krieg|first2=Noel J.| last3= Staley|first3=James T.|title=Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology|date=2005|publisher=Springer|location=New York|isbn=0-387-29298-5|edition=2nd}}</ref> ''Asaia'' might be able to control malaria by massively colonizing the midgut and the male reproductive system of the mosquito ''Anopheles stephensi''<ref name=Zach/><ref name=Miller/><ref>{{cite book|last1=Favia|first1=G|last2=Ricci|first2=I|last3=Marzorati|first3=M|last4=Negri|first4=I|last5=Alma|first5=A|last6=Sacchi|first6=L|last7=Bandi|first7=C|last8=Daffonchio|first8=D|title=Transgenesis and the Management of Vector-Borne Disease|chapter=Bacteria of the Genus Asaia: A Potential Paratransgenic Weapon Against Malaria|series=Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology|date=2008|volume=627|pages=49–59|pmid=18510013|doi=10.1007/978-0-387-78225-6_4|isbn=978-0-387-78224-9}}</ref>.
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== Further reading == * {{cite journal|last1=Yamada|first1=Y|last2=Katsura|first2=K|last3=Kawasaki|first3=H|last4=Widyastuti|first4=Y|last5=Saono|first5=S|last6=Seki|first6=T|last7=Uchimura|first7=T|last8=Komagata|first8=K|title=Asaia bogorensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an unusual acetic acid bacterium in the alpha-Proteobacteria.|journal=International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology|date=March 2000|volume=50|pages=823–9|pmid=10758893|doi=10.1099/00207713-50-2-823|issue=2|doi-access=free}} * {{cite book|last1=Favia|first1=G|last2=Ricci|first2=I|last3=Marzorati|first3=M|last4=Negri|first4=I|last5=Alma|first5=A|last6=Sacchi|first6=L|last7=Bandi|first7=C|last8=Daffonchio|first8=D|title=Transgenesis and the Management of Vector-Borne Disease|chapter=Bacteria of the Genus Asaia: A Potential Paratransgenic Weapon Against Malaria|series=Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology|date=2008|volume=627|pages=49–59|pmid=18510013|doi=10.1007/978-0-387-78225-6_4|isbn=978-0-387-78224-9}} * {{cite book|author1=Ed.: Stanley Falkow|title=Proteobacteria : Alpha and Beta subclasses|date=2006|publisher=Springer|location=New York, NY|isbn=0-387-25495-1|edition=3.}} * {{cite book|editor-last1=Aksoy|editor-first1=Serap|title=Transgenesis and the management of vector-borne disease|date=2008|publisher=Springer Science + Business Media|location=New York, NY|isbn=978-0-387-78225-6|edition=[Online-Ausg.]}} * {{cite book |last1=Bourtzis |first1= |title=Manipulative tenants bacteria associated with arthropods. |date=2011 |publisher=CRC Press |location=Hoboken |isbn=978-1-4398-2750-5}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q19944793}}
Category:Rhodospirillales Category:Bacteria genera