Apilactobacillus timberlakei, 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 : 2843

DESCRIPTION OF APILACTOBACILLUS TIMBERLAKEI COMB. NOV.

Apilactobacillus timberlakei (tim.ber.lake’i. N.L. gen. masc. n. timberlakei names in honor of Philip Timberlake’s work on bee taxonomy).

Basonym: Lactobacillus timberlakei McFrederick et al. 2018, 1884 VP

Aerotolerant [ 324]; the genome size of the type strain is 1.54 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 30.5.

Isolated as part of the core microbiome of wild bees, and from flowers.

The type strain is HV_12 T = DSM 104128 T = NRRL B-65472 T.

Genome sequence accession number: POST00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: KX656650 .