DESCRIPTIONOF BOMBILACTOBACILLUS MELLIS COMB. NOV

Bombilactobacillus mellis (mel’lis. L. gen. n. mellis, of honey, referring to the isolation from the digestive tract of A. mellifera)

Basonym: Lactobacillus mellis Olofsson et al. 2014, 3115 VP

The characteristics as provided by [89] are comparable to B. mellifer . Thegenome size is 1.81 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNAis 36.4.

Isolated from the honey stomach of the honeybee Apis mellifera .

Thetypestrainis Hon2NT=DSM 26255 T =CCUG 63289 T.

Genome sequence accession number: JXBZ00000000.

16 rRNA gene sequence accession number: JX099545.