Published August 1, 2020 | Version v1
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Fundicoccus Siebert & Huptas & Wenning & Scherer & Doll 2020, GEN. NOV.

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DESCRIPTION OF FUNDICOCCUS GEN. NOV.

Fundicoccus (Fun.di.coc’us. L. masc. n. fundus farm; N.L. masc. n. coccus (from Gr. masc. n. kokkos) berry; N.L. masc. n. Fundicoccus, a coccus isolated from a farm).

Cells are Gram-stain-positive, non-motile, non-spore-forming cocci. The cell- wall peptidoglycan type is A1 α type (L-Lysdirect), comprising alanine, glutamic acid and lysine. The three major compounds of the fatty acid profile are C 16:1 ω9 c, C 16:0 and C 18:1 ω9 c. Three glycolipids, a phospholipid, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphoglycolipid and diphosphatidylglycerol are the polar lipids.

Fundicoccus gen. nov. belongs to the family Aerococcaceae within the order Lactobacillales. The type species of the genus is Fundicoccus ignavus.

Notes

Published as part of Siebert, Annemarie, Huptas, Christopher, Wenning, Mareike, Scherer, Siegfried & Doll, Etienne V., 2020, Fundicoccus ignavus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel genus of the family Aerococcaceae isolated from bulk tank milk, pp. 4774-4781 in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (8) on pages 4779-4780, DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004344, http://zenodo.org/record/6224040

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