Apilactobacillus bombintestini
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Phylum Bacillota (Firmicutes), Class Bacilli, Order Lactobacillales, Family Lactobacillaceae, Genus Apilactobacillus, Apilactobacillus
bombintestini
Heo, Kim, Kim, Hong  and Kwon, 2020.
Gram-positive rods, 0.6-0.8 / 1.4-2.0 µm.
Can grow at 20-37 ºC and at pH 2.0-8.0. Facultative anaerobic.
Isolated from the gut of an adult worker bee of Bombus ignites in Korea.
Undetermined.
  1. Heo J, Kim SJ, Kim JS, Hong SB and Kwon SW, 2020. Comparative genomics of Lactobacillus species as bee symbionts and
    description of Lactobacillus bombintestini sp. nov., isolated from the gut of Bombus ignites.  J Microbiol 58, DOI 10.1007/s12275-
    020-9596-3.
  2. Mattarelli P, Felis G, Franz CMAP, Gänzle MG, 2021.Proposal to reclassify four Lactobacillus species as Apilactobacillus
    bombintestini, Companilactobacillus suantsaicola, Lactiplantibacillus garii and Levilactobacillus suantsaiihabitans. Int J Syst Evol
    Microbiol 71; DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004704.
Heterofermentative.

Positive results for acid phosphatase, casein hydrolysis, esculin hydrolysis, leucine arylamidase, naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase
(weak reaction), tyrosine hydrolysis, valine arylamidase (weak reaction), fermentation of D-fructose, glucose acid (without gas
production), sorbitol, and trehalose.

Negative results for alkaline phosphatase, arginine dihydrolase, catalase, cystine arylamidase, esterase (C4), esterase lipase (C8),
alpha-fucosidase, alpha-galactosidase, beta-galactosidase, alpha-glucosidase, beta-glucosidase, beta-glucuronidase, gelatin
hydrolysis, indole production, lipase (C14), alpha-mannosidase, nitrate reduction, N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase, oxidase, starch
hydrolysis, trypsin, alpha-chymotrypsin, Tween 80 hydrolysis, urea hydrolysis, Voges-Proskauer test, fermentation of adonitol,
amygdalin, arbutin, D- and L-arabinose, D- and L-arabitol, cellobiose, dulcitol, erythritol, esculin, L- and D-fucose, galactose,
gentiobiose, gluconate acid, 2- and, 5-ketogluconate, glycerol, glycogen, inositol, inulin, lactose, D-lyxose, maltose, mannitol,
mannose, melezitose, melibiose, methyl alpha-D-glucopyranoside, methyl alpha-D-mannopyranoside, methyl alpha-D-xyloside,
raffinose, rhamnose, ribose, salicin, L-sorbose, starch, sucrose, D-tagatose, turanose, xylitol, D- and L-xylose, N-acetylglucosamine,
and methyl beta-D-xylopyranoside.
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