DESCRIPTIONOF LENTILACTOBACILLUS KEFIRI COMB. NOV.

Lentilactobacillus kefiri (ke.fi’ri. N.L. gen. n. kefiri, of kefir, referring to the source of isolation).

Basonym: Lactobacillus kefir Kandler and Kunath 1983, 672 VL

Characteristics are described in [332]. Growth is observed at 15 but not at 45 °C; the genome size of the type strain is 2.23 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 41.7.

Isolated from kefir as part of the core microbiota. Thetypestrainis A/KT=ATCC 35411 T =CIP 103006 T = DSM 20587 T =JCM 5818 T =LMG 9480 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AYYV00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AJ621553.