Bombilactobacillus mellis, 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 MELLIS COMB. NOV

Bombilactobacillus mellis (mel’lis. L. gen. n. mellis , of honey, referring to the isolation from the digestive tract of A. mellifera )

Basonym: Lactobacillus mellis Olofsson et al. 2014 , 3115 VP

The characteristics as provided by [ 89] are comparable to B. mellifer . The genome size is 1.81 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 36.4.

Isolated from the honey stomach of the honeybee Apis mellifera .

The type strain is Hon2NT= DSM 26255 T = CCUG 63289 T .

Genome sequence accession number: JXBZ00000000.

16 rRNA gene sequence accession number: JX099545 .