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Apilactobacillus

Apilactobacillus is a genus of bacteria from the family Lactobacillaceae.

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Apilactobacillus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Bacillati
Phylum: Bacillota
Class: Bacilli
Order: Lactobacillales
Family: Lactobacillaceae
Genus: Apilactobacillus
Zheng et al. 20201
Type species
Apilactobacillus kunkeei
(Edwards et al. 1998) Zheng et al. 20201
Species

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Apilactobacillus is a genus of bacteria from the family Lactobacillaceae.12

Species

The genus Apilactobacillus comprises the following species:2

  • Apilactobacillus apinorum (Olofsson et al. 2014) Zheng et al. 2020
  • Apilactobacillus bombintestini (Heo et al. 2020) Mattarelli et al. 2021
  • Apilactobacillus kunkeei (Edwards et al. 1998) Zheng et al. 2020
  • Apilactobacillus micheneri (McFrederick et al. 2018) Zheng et al. 2020
  • Apilactobacillus ozensis (Kawasaki et al. 2011) Zheng et al. 2020
  • Apilactobacillus quenuiae (McFrederick et al. 2018) Zheng et al. 2020
  • Apilactobacillus timberlakei (McFrederick et al. 2018) Zheng et al. 2020
  • Apilactobacillus nanyangensis Liu et al. 20213

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature2 and the phylogeny is based on whole-genome sequences,1 except for the recently described A. nanyangensis, which has been added based on a 16S rRNA gene phylogeny by the GGDC web server.4

Apilactobacillus

Apilactobacillus micheneri

Apilactobacillus quenuiae

Apilactobacillus timberlakei

Apilactobacillus apinorum

Apilactobacillus kunkeei

Apilactobacillus nanyangensis

Apilactobacillus ozensis

outgroup

Holzapfelia

References

References

  1. Zheng J, Wittouck S, Salvetti E, Franz CM, Harris HM, Mattarelli P, O'Toole PW, Pot B, Vandamme P, Walter J, Watanabe K, Wuyts S, Felis GE, Gänzle MG, Lebeer S (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". Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 70 (4): 2782–2858. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.004107. hdl:10067/1738330151162165141. PMID 32293557.
  2. Euzéby JP, Parte AC. "Apilactobacillus". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved June 30, 2021.
  3. Liu DD, Li YQ, Zhang LP, Ding W, Tian WL, Gu CT (2021). "Apilactobacillus nanyangensis sp. nov., Secundilactobacillus hailunensis sp. nov., Secundilactobacillus yichangensis sp. nov., Levilactobacillus andaensis sp. nov., Levilactobacillus wangkuiensis sp. nov., Levilactobacillus lanxiensis sp. nov., Lacticaseibacillus mingshuiensis sp. nov. and Lacticaseibacillus suilingensis sp. nov., isolated from traditional Chinese pickle and the gut of honeybee (Apis mellifera)". Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 71 (7): 004898. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.004898. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 34313582.
  4. Meier-Kolthoff JP, Auch AF, Klenk HP, Göker M (2013). "Genome sequence-based species delimitation with confidence intervals and improved distance functions". BMC Bioinformatics. 14 (1): 1–14. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-14-60. PMC 3665452. PMID 23432962.