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Apilactobacillus kunkeei KUNKEEI 2020, COMB. NOV.

Description

DESCRIPTIONOF APILACTOBACILLUS KUNKEEI COMB. NOV.

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.

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: AZCK00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: Y11374.

Notes

Published as part of 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, pp. 2782-2858 in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 on page 2842, DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004107, http://zenodo.org/record/4730536

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Lactobacillaceae
Genus
Apilactobacillus
Kingdom
Bacteria
Order
Lactobacillales
Phylum
Firmicutes
Scientific name authorship
KUNKEEI
Species
kunkeei
Taxonomic status
comb. nov.
Taxon rank
species

References

  • 321. Edwards CG, Haag KM, Collins MD, Hutson RA, Huang YC. Lactobacillus kunkeei sp. nov.: a spoilage organism associated with grape juice fermentations. J Appl Microbiol 1998; 84: 698 - 702.