Lactobacillus bombicola
- 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
Classification
- kingdom
- Bacteria
- phylum
- Firmicutes
- class
- Bacilli
- order
- Lactobacillales
- family
- Lactobacillaceae
- genus
- Lactobacillus
- species
- Lactobacillus bombicola
description
Thetypestrainis H 70 - 3 T = LMG 28288 T = DSM 28793 T. Genome sequence accession number: NPNG 00000000. 16 S rRNA gene accession number: LK 054485.
discussion
Lactobacillus bombicola [bom. bi’co. la. L. masc. n. bombus a boom, adeep hollow noise, buzzing, alsothe zoological genus name of the bumble bee; L. suf. – cola (derived from L. masc. or fem. n. incola incola, inhabitant) dwelling, occurring in; N. L. masc. n. bombicol a occurring in Bombus]. Lactobacillus bombicola produces only D (−) - lactic acid from glucose. It is capable of utilizing cellobiose, ribose, glucose, fructose, mannose and trehalose for growth an acid production, but not arabinose, maltose, lactose, melibiose and sucrose [42]. The genome size is 1.64 Mbp and the mol % G + C content of DNAis 34.6. Isolated from the gut of a Bombus lapidarius bumble bee.
Name
- Homonyms
- Lactobacillus bombicola