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Pilibacter termitis gen. nov., sp. nov., a lactic acid bacterium from the hindgut of the Formosan subterranean termite (Coptotermes formosanus)

¹ Department of Entomology, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, 404 Life Sciences Building, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
² Department of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
³ Department of Math and Sciences, Kapiolani Community College, Honolulu, HI, USA

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Claudia Husseneder
chusseneder{at}agcenter.lsu.edu

A previously undescribed anaerobic, heterofermentative, non-spore-forming, Gram-positive rod was isolated from the hindgut of the Formosan subterranean termite Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki. The DNA G+C content of this bacterium was 37·8 mol%. Sequence analysis of the 16S rRNA gene revealed that this organism is related to, but distinct from, several genera of lactic acid bacteria, principally several species of the genus Enterococcus. Phenotypic traits that serve to separate this organism from related genera include high levels of the cellular fatty acid C18 : 19c and the production of ethanol along with lactic acid as fermentation products. Based on the collected phylogenetic and phenotypic evidence, it is proposed that the unknown organism represents a novel species in a new genus, Pilibacter termitis gen. nov., sp. nov. The type strain is TI-1^T (=ATCC BAA-1030^T=CCUG 49613^T).

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain TI-1^T is AY533171.

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