Apilactobacillus 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
- GENUS
- 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
- Apilactobacillus
description
Aphylogenetic tree on the basis of 16 S rRNA genes of all species in the genus Apilactobacillus is provided in Figure S 6 R. The type speciesof the genusis Apilactobacillus kunkeei comb. nov. Apilactobacilus was previously referred to as L. kunkeei group.
discussion
Apilactobacillus (A. pi. lac. to. ba. cil'lus. L. fem. n. apis bee; N. L. masc. n. Lactobacillus a bacterial genus name; N. L. masc. n. Apilactobacillus a lactobacillus from bees). Gram positive, rod-shaped, heterofermentative. Growth is generally observed in the range of 15 – 37 ° C; many strains grow at acidic conditions below pH 3.0. Strains in the genus have small genomes ranging from 1.42 Mbp for Apilactobacillus kosoi to 1.58 Mbp for Apilactobacillus quenuiae; the mol % G + C content of DNA ranges from 30.5 to 36.4. All strains in the genus convert fructose to mannitol; strains in thegenus typically ferment very few carbohydrates including the pollen and bee-associated carbohydrates fructose, glucose, and sucrose but not maltose or pentoses. Comparable to Fructilactobacillus, Apilactobacillus has an insect-associated lifestyle and occurs on flowers, which serve as hub for dispersal of lactobacilli, and insects [320]. In contrast to Fructilactobacillus, Apilactobacillus has adapted to bees including honeybees (A. apinorum, A. kunkeei) and wild bees (A. timberlakei, A. micheneri, A. quenuiae). In the bee and bumblebee gut, Apilactobacillus is associated with its homofermentative sister genus Bombilactobacillus.