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Bombilactobacillus Zheng & Wittouck & Salvetti & Franz & Harris & Mattarelli & O'Toole & Pot & Vandamme & Walter & Watanabe & Wuyts & Felis & Gänzle & Lebeer 2020, GEN. NOV.

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DESCRIPTION OF BOMBILACTOBACILLUS GEN. NOV.

Bombilactobacillus (Bom.bi.lac.to.ba.cil’lus. L. masc. n. bombus, buzzing of bees and bumblebees, N.L. masc. n. Lactobacillus a bacterial genus; N.L. masc. n. Bombilactobacillus, a lactobacillus from bees and bumble bees).

Bombilactobacillus species have been isolated from the stomach and the hindgut of honey bees (Apis mellifera) and bumble bees where they are associated with the heterofermentative sister genus Apilactobacillus. Bombilactobacillus species have genome sizes which range from 1.81 to 1.84 Mbp and a mol% G+C content ranging from 34.7 to 39.5. They are homofermentative and thermophilic; comparable to other insect-associated lactobacilli, bombilactobacilli ferment only a narrow spectrum of carbohydrates.

A phylogenetic tree on the basis of 16S rRNA genes of all species in the genus Bombilactobacillus is provided in Fig. S6B.

The type species is Bombilactobacillus mellifer comb. nov; Bombilactobacillus was previously referred to as L. mellifer group.

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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 (4) on page 2802, DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004107, http://zenodo.org/record/10114954

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Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.10133304 (DOI)
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Zheng & Wittouck & Salvetti & Franz & Harris & Mattarelli & O'Toole & Pot & Vandamme & Walter & Watanabe & Wuyts & Felis & Gänzle & Lebeer
Kingdom
Bacteria
Phylum
Firmicutes
Order
Lactobacillales
Family
Lactobacillaceae
Genus
Bombilactobacillus
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic status
gen. nov.
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Bombilactobacillus Zheng, Wittouck, Salvetti, Franz, Harris, Mattarelli, O'Toole, Pot, Vandamme, Walter, Watanabe, Wuyts, Felis, Gänzle & Lebeer, 2020