RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Wang, Cong A1 Huang, Yan A1 Li, Li A1 Guo, Jun A1 Wu, Zhengyun A1 Deng, Yu A1 Dai, Lirong A1 Ma, ShichunYR 2018 T1 Lactobacillus panisapium sp. nov., from honeybee Apis cerana bee bread JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 68 IS 3 SP 703 OP 708 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002538 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB A novel facultatively anaerobic, Gram-stain-positive, non-motile, non-spore-forming, catalase-negative bacterium of the genus Lactobacillus , designated strain Bb 2-3T, was isolated from bee bread of Apis cerana collected from a hive in Kunming, China. The strain was regular rod-shaped. Optimal growth occurred at 37 °C, pH 6.5 with 5.0 g l−1 NaCl. The predominant fatty acids were C18 : 1ω9c, C16 : 0 and C19 : 0 iso. Respiratory quinones were not detected. Seven glycolipids, three lipids, phosphatidylglycerol and diphosphatidylglycerol were detected. The peptidoglycan type A4α l-Lys-d-Asp was determined. Strain Bb 2-3T was closely related to Lactobacillus bombicola DSM 28793T, Lactobacillus apis LMG 26964T and Lactobacillus helsingborgensis DSM 26265T, with 97.8, 97.6 and 97.0 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity, respectively. A comparison of two housekeeping genes, rpoA and pheS, revealed that strain Bb 2-3T was well separated from the reference strains of species of the genus Lactobacillus . The average nucleotide identity between strain Bb 2-3T and the type strains of closely related species was lower than the 95–96 % threshold value for delineation of genomic prokaryotic species. The G+C content of the genomic DNA of strain Bb 2-3T was 37.4 mol%. On the basis of phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic analyses, strain Bb 2-3T is proposed to represent a novel species of the genus Lactobacillus , for which we propose the name Lactobacillus panisapium sp. nov. The type strain is Bb 2-3T (=DSM 102188T=ACCC 19955T)., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002538