Symbiosis of Carpenter Bees with Uncharacterized Lactic Acid Bacteria Showing NAD Auxotrophy

作者：Shinji Kawasaki, Kaori Ozawa, Tatsunori Mori, Arisa Yamamoto, Midoriko Ito, Moriya Ohkuma, Mitsuo Sakamoto, Minenosuke Matsutani · 发表于：Microbiology Spectrum · 年份：2023 · DOI：10.1128/spectrum.00782-23 · 被引用次数：9 · 研究领域：Insect and Pesticide Research、Plant and animal studies、Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences

-specific novel LAB clade lack the genes for synthesizing NAD, a coenzyme central to metabolism in all living organisms. Here, we propose a novel genus for the two LAB species based on very low 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities and genotypic characters.