Bombilactobacillus mellifer, 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 : 2802

DESCRIPTION OF BOMBILACTOBACILLUS MELLIFER COMB. NOV.

Bombilactobacillus mellifer (mel’li.fer. L. masc. adj. mellifer , honey-producing, referring to the origin from the stomach and digestive tract of honey bees Apis mellifera ).

Basonym: Lactobacillus mellifer Olofsson et al. 2014 , 3113 VP

Description provided by [ 89]. B. mellifer grows over a wide temperature range (15–50 °C) and pH values (pH 3–12) but ferments only few hexoses, sucrose and raffinose [ 89]. The genome size is 1.82 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 39.5.

Isolated from isolated from the honey stomach of the honeybee Apis mellifera .

The type strain is Bin4NT= DSM 26254 T = CCUG 63291 T .

Genome sequence accession number: JXJQ00000000.

16 rRNA gene sequence accession number: JX099543 .