Apilactobacillus apisilvae
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Taxonomy
Morphology
Cultural characteristics
Biochemical characters
Ecology
Pathogenicity
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Phylum Bacillota (Firmicutes), Class Bacilli, Order Lactobacillales, Family Lactobacillaceae, Genus Apilactobacillus, Apilactobacillus
apisilvae Oliphant, Watson-Haigh, Sumby, Gardner, Groom and Jiranek, 2022.
Gram-positive rods, 0.7-1.1 / 1.3-2.4 μm, occurring singly or in pairs. Non-motile.
Nonspore-forming.
Colonies are white, opaque, slightly umbonate, glistening, 1-2 mm in diameter after
incubation on MRSF agar (MRS with 20 g/l fructose) under anaerobic conditions.
Grows at 17-30 ºC, optimally at 28 ºC, at pH 4.5-7.0, optimally at pH 5.0 and in 0-0.5%
NaCl. Obligately fructophilic. Facultatively anaerobic.
Isolated from the homogenate of the bush bee (Austroplebeia australis), an Australian stingless bee species.
Undetermined.
- Oliphant SA, Watson-Haigh NS, Sumby KM, Gardner J, Groom S and Jiranek V, 2022. Apilactobacillus apisilvae sp. nov., Nicolia
spurrieriana gen. nov. sp. nov., Bombilactobacillus folatiphilus sp. nov. and Bombilactobacillus thymidiniphilus sp. nov., four new
lactic acid bacterial isolates from stingless bees Tetragonula carbonaria and Austroplebeia australis. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 72;
005588. DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.005588.
Heterofermentative. Description is based mostly on API 50 CHL and API ZYM (bioMerieux) results.
Positive results for acid phosphatase (weak), esterase (C4) (weak), leucine arylamidase, naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase (weak),
valine arylamidase (weak), acid production from: D-fructose, glucose acid (without gas production) and sucrose.
Negative results for alkaline phosphatase, catalase, cystine arylamidase, esterase lipase (C8), alpha-fucosidase,
alpha-galactosidase, beta-galactosidase, alpha-glucosidase, beta-glucosidase, beta-glucuronidase, lipase (C14),
alpha-mannosidase, N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase, trypsin, alpha-chymotrypsin, acid production from: adonitol, amygdalin, arbutin,
D- and L-arabinose, D- and L-arabitol, cellobiose, dulcitol, erythritol, aesculin, L- and D-fucose, galactose, gentiobiose, glycerol,
glycogen, gluconate, 2- and 5-ketogluconate, inositol, inulin, lactose, D-lyxose, maltose, mannitol, mannose, melezitose, melibiose,
alpha-D-glucopyranoside, methyl alpha-D-mannopyranoside, methyl alpha, D-xyloside, methyl beta-D-xylopyranoside,
N-acetylglucosamine, raffinose, rhamnose, ribose, salicin, sorbitol, L-sorbose, starch, D-tagatose, trehalose, turanose, xylitol, D- and
L-xylose.
(c) Costin Stoica