Lactobacillus psittaci

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, pp. 2782-2858 : 2800

Lactobacillus psittaci

Lactobacillus psittaci (psit.ta‘ci. L. gen. masc. n. psittaci of the parrot, from which the organism was first isolated).

Lactobacillus psittaci produces acid from glucose, raffinose and sucrose, but not from lactose, mannitol and trehalose [ 107]. The genome size is 1.54 Mbp and the mol% G+C content of DNA is 35.6.

Isolated from a hyacinth macaw.

Thetypestrainis B 1491/99 T = CCUG 42378 T =CIP 106492 T =DSM 15354 T =JCM 11552 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AZFB00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AJ272391 .