Lactobacillus melliventris

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 : 2799

Lactobacillus melliventris

Lactobacillus melliventris (mel.li.ven‘tris. L. neut. n. mel, mellis honey; L. masc. n. venter, - tris belly, stomach; N.L. gen. n. melliventris of the honey stomach, referring to the isolation of the first strains from the honey stomach of honeybees).

Lactobacillus melliventris grows from 15 to 50 °C. Produce acid from glucose, fructose, mannose and gentiobiose, but not from galactose, ribose, sucrose, maltose and lactose [ 89]. The genome size is 2.12 Mbp and the mol% G+C content of DNA is 35.9.

Isolated from the homey stomach of honeybees.

The type strain is Hma8NT= DSM 26256 T = CCUG 63629 T .

Genome sequence accession number: JXLI00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: JX099551 .