Apilactobacillus kunkeei, Zheng & Wittouck & Salvetti & Franz & Harris & Mattarelli & O’Toole & Pot & Vandamme & Walter & Watanabe & Wuyts & Felis & Gänzle & Lebeer, 2020

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 (4), pp. 2782-2858 : 2842

DESCRIPTION OF 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

A facultative anaerobic organism [ 321]; the genome size of the type strain is 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.

The type strain is YH-15 T = ATCC 700308 T = DSM 12361 T = JCM 16173 T .

Genome sequence accession number: AZCK00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: Y11374 .