Bombilactobacillus mellis Zheng, Wittouck, Salvetti, Franz, Harris, Mattarelli, O’Toole, Pot, Vandamme, Walter, Watanabe, Wuyts, Felis, Gänzle, and Lebeer 2020
- Dataset
- A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Zheng, Jinshui, Wittouck, Stijn, Salvetti, Elisa, Franz, Charles M. A. P., Harris, Hugh M. B., Mattarelli, Paola, O’Toole, Paul W., Pot, Bruno, Vandamme, Peter, Walter, Jens, Watanabe, Koichi, Wuyts, Sander, Felis, Giovanna E., Gänzle, Michael G., Lebeer, Sarah (2020): A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70: 2782-2858, DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004107
Classification
- kingdom
- Bacteria
- phylum
- Firmicutes
- class
- Bacilli
- order
- Lactobacillales
- family
- Lactobacillaceae
- genus
- Bombilactobacillus
- species
- Bombilactobacillus mellis
description
The characteristics as provided by [89] are comparable to B. mellifer. Thegenome size is 1.81 Mbp. The mol % G + C content of DNAis 36.4. Isolated from the honey stomach of the honeybee Apis mellifera. Thetypestrainis Hon 2 NT = DSM 26255 T = CCUG 63289 T. Genome sequence accession number: JXBZ 00000000. 16 rRNA gene sequence accession number: JX 099545.
discussion
Bombilactobacillus mellis (mel’lis. L. gen. n. mellis, of honey, referring to the isolation from the digestive tract of A. mellifera) Basonym: Lactobacillus mellis Olofsson et al. 2014, 3115 VP