Apilactobacillus kunkeei KUNKEEI 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
- Apilactobacillus
- species
- Apilactobacillus kunkeei
description
Isolated form a sluggish grape wine fermentation but the species is typically associated with honey bees and flowers. Thetypestrainis YH- 15 T = ATCC 700308 T = DSM 12361 T = JCM 16173 T. Genome sequence accession number: AZCK 00000000. 16 S rRNA gene accession number: Y 11374.
discussion
Apilactobacillus kunkeei (kun’kee. i; N. L. gen. n. kunkeei of Kunkee, named in honor of the Californian microbiologist Ralph Kunkee). Basonym: Lactobacillus kunkeei Edwards et al. 1998, 1083 VL Afacultative anaerobic organism [321]; the genome size of thetypestrainis 1.52 Mbp. The mol % G + C content of DNA is 36.4.