@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002303, author = "Goodman, Laura B. and Lawton, Marie R. and Franklin-Guild, Rebecca J. and Anderson, Renee R. and Schaan, Lynn and Thachil, Anil J. and Wiedmann, Martin and Miller, Claire B. and Alcaine, Samuel D. and Kovac, Jasna", title = "Lactococcus petauri sp. nov., isolated from an abscess of a sugar glider", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "2017", volume = "67", number = "11", pages = "4397-4404", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002303", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002303", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "genome", keywords = "Marsupialia", keywords = "Streptococcaceae", keywords = "farms", keywords = "aquaculture", keywords = "Lactococcus", abstract = "A strain of lactic acid bacteria, designated 159469T, isolated from a facial abscess in a sugar glider, was characterized genetically and phenotypically. Cells of the strain were Gram-stain-positive, coccoid and catalase-negative. Morphological, physiological and phylogenetic data indicated that the isolate belongs to the genus Lactococcus . Strain 159469T was closely related to Lactococcus garvieae ATCC 43921T, showing 95.86 and 98.08 % sequence similarity in 16S rRNA gene and rpoB gene sequences, respectively. Furthermore, a pairwise average nucleotide identity blast (ANIb) value of 93.54 % and in silico DNA–DNA hybridization value of 50.7  % were determined for the genome of strain 159469T, when compared with the genome of the type strain of Lactococcus garvieae . Based on the data presented here, the isolate represents a novel species of the genus Lactococcus , for which the name Lactococcus petauri sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is 159469T (=LMG 30040T=DSM 104842T).", }