Lactobacillus bombicola

Lactobacillus bombicola [bom.bi’co.la. L. masc. n. bombus a boom, adeep hollow noise, buzzing, alsothe zoological genus name of the bumble bee; L. suf. – cola (derived from L. masc. or fem. n. incola incola, inhabitant) dwelling, occurring in; N.L. masc. n. bombicol a occurring in Bombus].

Lactobacillus bombicola produces only D(−)-lactic acid from glucose. It is capable of utilizing cellobiose, ribose, glucose, fructose, mannose and trehalose for growth an acid production, but not arabinose, maltose, lactose, melibiose and sucrose [42]. The genome size is 1.64 Mbp and the mol% G+C content of DNAis 34.6.

Isolated from the gut of a Bombus lapidarius bumble bee.

Thetypestrainis H70-3 T =LMG 28288 T =DSM 28793 T.

Genome sequence accession number: NPNG00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: LK054485.