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Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 58 (2008), 2799-2802; DOI  10.1099/ijs.0.65730-0
© 2008 International Union of Microbiological Societies

Butyricicoccus pullicaecorum gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, butyrate-producing bacterium isolated from the caecal content of a broiler chicken

Venessa Eeckhaut1, Filip Van Immerseel1, Emma Teirlynck1, Frank Pasmans1, Veerle Fievez2, Cindy Snauwaert3, Freddy Haesebrouck1, Richard Ducatelle1, Petra Louis4 and Peter Vandamme3

1 Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Avian Diseases, Research Group Veterinary Public Health and Zoonoses, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Salisburylaan 133, B-9820 Merelbeke, Belgium
2 Laboratory for Animal Nutrition and Animal Product Quality, Ghent University, Proefhoevestraat 10, B-9090 Melle, Belgium
3 Laboratory of Microbiology, Ghent University, K. L. Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
4 Microbial Ecology Group, Rowett Research Institute, Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB21 9SB, UK

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Venessa Eeckhaut
venessa.eeckhaut{at}UGent.be

Five isolates that produced large amounts of butyrate were obtained in the course of a study on the butyrate-producing microbiota from the caecal content of a 4-week-old broiler chicken. The five isolates were virtually indistinguishable in biochemical and genetic terms, suggesting that they were derived from a single bacterial clone colonizing this habitat. A phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences demonstrated that the five isolates represented a unique lineage within the Clostridium leptum subgroup of the clostridia, with Eubacterium desmolans as the closest phylogenetic neighbour (about 93 % similarity). These data indicate that the five novel isolates represent a single novel species within a novel genus, for which we propose the name Butyricicoccus pullicaecorum gen. nov., sp. nov. The type strain of Butyricicoccus pullicaecorum is 25-3T (=LMG 24109T =CCUG 55265T). The DNA G+C content of strain 25-3T was 54.5 mol% .

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain 25-3T is EU410376.

RAPD and REP-PCR genomic patterns and a scanning electron micrograph of cells of strain 25-3T are available as supplementary figures with the online version of this paper.




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