Sodalis glossinidius

Sodalis glossinidius is a species of bacteria, the type and only species of its genus. It is a microaerophilic secondary endosymbiont of the tsetse fly. Strain M1T is the type strain.^[1] Sodalis glossinidius is the only gammaproteobacterial insect symbiont to be cultured and thus amenable to genetic modification, suggesting that it could be used as part of a control strategy by vectoring antitrypanosome genes. The organism may increase the susceptibility of tsetse flies to trypanosomes.^[2]

Sodalis glossinidius
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Gammaproteobacteria
Order:	Enterobacterales
Family:	Pectobacteriaceae
Genus:	Sodalis
Species:	S. glossinidius Dale and Maudlin 1999

Despite gene erosion and pseudogene multiplication in a genome of Sodalis glossinidius,^[3] these pseudogenes remain actively transcribed.^[4]

Parasites

S. glossinidius is itself host to a prophage discovered by Clark et al. 2007. ^[5]