Bombiscardovia coagulans gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Bifidobacteriaceae isolated from the digestive tract of bumblebees

0359527 - ÚŽFG 2012 RIV DE eng J - Journal Article
Killer, Jiří - Kopečný, Jan - Mrázek, Jakub - Havlík, J. - Koppová, Ingrid - Benada, Oldřich - Rada, V. - Kofroňová, Olga
Bombiscardovia coagulans gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Bifidobacteriaceae isolated from the digestive tract of bumblebees.
Systematic and Applied Microbiology. Roč. 33, č. 7 (2010), s. 359-366. ISSN 0723-2020. E-ISSN 1618-0984
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Keywords : scardovia * Bifidobacteriaceae * bumblebees
Subject RIV: EE - Microbiology, Virology
Impact factor: 3.075, year: 2010

One hundred and eighty-seven fructose-6-phosphate phosphoketolase positive strains were isolated from the digestive tract of three different bumblebee species. Analyses of the partial 16S rRNA gene sequences of the representative strains showed only 92.8% and 92.5% similarity to Bifidobacterium coryneforme YIT 4092T and Bifidobacterium indicum JCM 1302T, 92.2% similarity to Alloscardovia omnicolens CCUG 18650 and slightly reduced similarity of 91% to other members of the family Bifidobacteriaceae. Bombiscardovia coagulans was found to differ from all scardovial genera in the ability to grow at temperatures as low as 5 ◦C, which was another major phenotypically different characteristic of this new member of the family Bifidobacteriaceae. Hence, on the basis of phylogenetic analyses using partial 16S rRNA and hsp60 gene sequence data, and the temperature related phenotypic difference, we propose a novel taxa, B. coagulans gen. nov., sp. nov.
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