DESCRIPTIONOF 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 .

Thetypestrainis Bin4NT=DSM 26254 T =CCUG 63291 T.

Genome sequence accession number: JXJQ00000000.

16 rRNA gene sequence accession number: JX099543.