Lactobacillus bombicola

Zheng, Jinshui, Wittouck, Stijn, Salvetti, Elisa, Franz, Charles M. A. P., Harris, Hugh M. B., Mattarelli, Paola, O’Toole, Paul W., Pot, Bruno, Vandamme, Peter, Walter, Jens, Watanabe, Koichi, Wuyts, Sander, Felis, Giovanna E., Gänzle, Michael G. & Lebeer, Sarah, 2020, A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (4), pp. 2782-2858 : 2795

Lactobacillus bombicola

Lactobacillus bombicola [bom.bi’co.la. L. masc. n. bombus a boom, a deep hollow noise, buzzing, also the zoological genus name of the bumble bee; L. suf. – cola (derived from L. masc. or fem. n. incola incola, inhabitant) dwelling, occurring in; N.L. masc. n. bombicol a occurring in Bombus ].

Lactobacillus bombicola produces only D(−)-lactic acid from glucose. It is capable of utilizing cellobiose, ribose, glucose, fructose, mannose and trehalose for growth an acid production, but not arabinose, maltose, lactose, melibiose and sucrose [ 42]. The genome size is 1.64 Mbp and the mol% G+C content of DNA is 34.6.

Isolated from the gut of a Bombus lapidarius bumble bee.

The type strain is H70-3 T = LMG 28288 T = DSM 28793 T .

Genome sequence accession number: NPNG00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: LK054485 .