DESCRIPTIONOF APILACTOBACILLUS TIMBERLAKEI COMB. NOV.

Apilactobacillus timberlakei (tim.ber.lake’i. N.L. gen. masc. n. timberlakei names in honor of Philip Timberlake’s work on bee taxonomy).

Basonym: Lactobacillus timberlakei McFrederick et al. 2018, 1884 VP

Aerotolerant [324]; thegenome size of the type strain is 1.54 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNAis 30.5.

Isolatedas part of the core microbiome of wild bees, andfrom flowers.

Thetypestrainis HV_12 T =DSM 104128 T =NRRL B-65472 T.

Genome sequence accession number: POST00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: KX656650.