Bombilactobacillus bombi, Zheng & Wittouck & Salvetti & Franz & Harris & Mattarelli & O’Toole & Pot & Vandamme & Walter & Watanabe & Wuyts & Felis & Gänzle & Lebeer, 2020

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 : 2802

DESCRIPTION OF BOMBILACTOBACILLUS BOMBI COMB. NOV.

Bombilactobacillus bombi (bom’bi. L. masc. n. bombus, buzzing of bees and Bombus , N.L. gen. n. bombi of Bombus , of a bumblebee).

Basonym: Lactobacillus bombi Killer et al. 2014, 2615 VP

Description provided by [ 113]; compared to other bombilactobacilli, B. bombi ferments a wider range of carbohydrates.

The genome size is 1.84 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 34.7.

Isolated from the digestive tract of laboratory-reared bumblebee queens ( Bombus terrestris ).

The type strain is BTLCH M1 / 2 T = DSM 26517 T = CCM 8440 T .

Genome sequence accession number: CP031513 (strain BI-2.5; the genome sequence for the type strain is not available) .

16 rRNA gene sequence accession number: KJ078643 .