Lactobacillus gigeriorum

Lactobacillus gigeriorum (gi.ge.ri.o‘rum. L. gen. pl. n. gigeriorum of or from the entrails or gizzards of poultry).

Lactobacillus gigeriorum produces mainly D-lactic acid from glucose, fructose, mannose, maltose, sucrose, galactose and cellobiose. Ribose, mannitol, lactose and raffinose are not fermented [87].

Thegenome size is 1.91 Mbp andthe mol% G+C content of DNAis 36.9.

Isolated from a crop of a chicken. Genome sequence accession number: AYZO00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: FR681899.