DESCRIPTIONOF APILACTOBACILLUS KUNKEEI COMB. NOV.

Apilactobacillus kunkeei (kun’kee.i; N.L. gen.n. kunkeei of Kunkee, named in honor of the Californian microbiologist Ralph Kunkee).

Basonym: Lactobacillus kunkeei Edwards et al. 1998, 1083 VL

Afacultative anaerobic organism [321]; the genome size of thetypestrainis 1.52 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 36.4.

Isolated form a sluggish grape wine fermentation but the species is typically associated with honey bees and flowers.

Thetypestrainis YH-15 T =ATCC 700308 T = DSM 12361 T =JCM 16173 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AZCK00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: Y11374.