DESCRIPTIONOF APILACTOBACILLUS MICHENERI COMB. NOV.

Apilactobacillus micheneri (mi.che’ne.ri. N.L. gen. masc. n. micheneri named in honor of Charles D. Michener‘s contributions to the study of bees in natural habitats).

Basonym: Lactobacillus micheneri McFrederick et al. 2018, 1993 VP

Majorphysiological propertiesare shared with A. timberlakei and A. quenuiae [324]. The genome size of the type strain is 1.46 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNAis 30.3.

Isolated from bees and flowers.

Thetypestrainis Hlig3 T =DSM 104126 T =NRRL B-65473 T.

Genome sequence accession number: POSO00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: KT833121.