Lactobacillus melliventris

Lactobacillus melliventris (mel.li.ven‘tris. L. neut. n. mel, mellis honey; L. masc. n. venter, - tris belly, stomach; N.L. gen. n. melliventris of the honey stomach, referring to the isolation of the first strains from the honey stomach of honeybees).

Lactobacillus melliventris grows from 15 to 50 °C. Produce acid from glucose, fructose, mannose and gentiobiose, but not from galactose, ribose, sucrose, maltose and lactose [89]. Thegenome size is 2.12 Mbp and the mol% G+C content of DNAis 35.9.

Isolated from the homey stomach of honeybees.

Thetypestrainis Hma8NT=DSM 26256 T =CCUG 63629 T.

Genome sequence accession number: JXLI00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: JX099551.