Name: Snodgrassella alvi wkB2
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 132915

Type strain:

Species: Snodgrassella alvi

Strain Designation: wkB2

Culture col. no.: DSM 104735, ATCC BAA-2449, NCIMB 14803, NRRL B-59751

Strain history: <- NCIMB <- W. K. Kwong, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, USA; wkB2

NCBI tax ID(s): 1196083 (species)

SI-ID 407413

DSM 104735

Section

Snodgrassella alvi wkB2 is a microaerophile, mesophilic, Gram-negative bacterium that was isolated from gut of honey bee Apis mellifera, adult worker bees from lab-raised hives.

Gram-negative
rod-shaped
mesophilic
microaerophile
16S sequence
Bacteria
genome sequence

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Pseudomonadota*
	Class	*Betaproteobacteria*
	Order	*Neisseriales*
	Family	*Neisseriaceae*
	Genus	*Snodgrassella*
	Species	**Snodgrassella alvi**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Snodgrassella alvi Kwong and Moran 2013

Synonym

"Candidatus Snodgrassella alvi"

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #30807]	Gram stain	negative

[Ref.: #30807]	Cell length	1 µm

[Ref.: #30807]	Cell width	0.4 µm

[Ref.: #30807]	Cell shape	rod-shaped

[Ref.: #30807]	Motility	no

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Pigment production

yes

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Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

BHI MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 215)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe provided by DSMZ

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Culture medium

COLUMBIA BLOOD AGAR (DSMZ Medium 429)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe provided by DSMZ

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Culture medium

TRYPTICASE SOY BROTH AGAR (DSMZ Medium 535)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #24703]			growth	37 °C
[Ref.: #30807]			optimum	37 °C

[Ref.: #24703]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #30807]	Temperature range	mesophilic

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #30807]			growth	6-6.5

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

microaerophile

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Observation

aggregates in clumps

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #30807]	citrate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30807]	malate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30807]	nitrate ChEBI	+	reduction

	Enzymes	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #30807]		catalase	+	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #30807]		urease	+	3.5.1.5

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #24703]	Sample type/isolated from	gut of honey bee Apis mellifera, adult worker bees from lab-raised hives
[Ref.: #24703]	Host species	Apis mellifera
[Ref.: #24703]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	West Haven, Connecticut
[Ref.: #24703]	Country	USA
[Ref.: #24703]	Country ISO 3 Code	USA
[Ref.: #24703]	Continent	North America
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Isolation sources categories

#Host	#Arthropoda	#Insecta
#Host Body-Site	#Gastrointestinal tract	#Stomach

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Information on possible application of the strain and its possible interaction with e.g. potential hosts Safety information

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Biosafety level

Risk group (German classification)
According to TRBA 466

Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #30807]	Snodgrassella alvi strain wkB12 16S ribosomal RNA gene, complete sequence	JQ746645	1547	GenBank	1196083 tax ID
[Ref.: #24703]	Snodgrassella alvi strain wkB2 16S ribosomal RNA gene, complete sequence	JQ746650	1548	ENA	1196094 tax ID
[Ref.: #24703]	Snodgrassella alvi strain wkB2 16S ribosomal RNA gene, complete sequence	JQ746651	1547	ENA	1196094 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Snodgrassella alvi wkB2	GCA_000600005	complete	GenBank	1196094 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Snodgrassella alvi wkB2	1196094.4	complete	PATRIC	1196094 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Snodgrassella alvi wkB2	2585428136	complete	JGI IMG/M	1196094 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Snodgrassella alvi wkB2	GCA_022870965	complete	GenBank	1196094 tax ID	*

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GC-content

41.3 mol%

Data predicted using genome information as a basis Genome-based predictions

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Snodgrassella alvi wkB2 wkB2 NCBI: GCA_000600005.1
[Ref.: #69480]	motile	no	92.462	no
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	no	96.383	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	no	98.46	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	no	98.021	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	halophile	no	65.16	no
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	no	98.028	no
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-util	no	50	no
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	no	89.018	no
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophile	no	99.318	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-ferment	no	77.588	no

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 104735, ATCC BAA-2449, NCIMB 14803, NRRL B-59751

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SI-ID 407413

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Cultivation and characterization of the gut symbionts of honey bees and bumble bees: description of Snodgrassella alvi gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Neisseriaceae of the Betaproteobacteria, and Gilliamella apicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of Orbaceae fam. nov., Orbales ord. nov., a sister taxon to the order 'Enterobacteriales' of the Gammaproteobacteria.	Kwong WK, Moran NA	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.044875-0	2012	*

References

#20215

Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )

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Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 104735

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Barberan A, Caceres Velazquez H, Jones S, Fierer N.: Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information. mSphere 2: 2017 ( DOI 10.1128/mSphere.00237-17 , PubMed 28776041 ) - originally annotated from #27138 (see below)

#66792

Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .

#69480

Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Predictions based on genome sequence made in the Diaspora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .

#91193

Reimer, L.C., Lissin, A.,Schober, I., Witte,J.F., Podstawka, A., Lüken, H., Bunk, B.,Overmann, J.: StrainInfo: A central database for resolving microbial strain identifiers . ( DOI 10.60712/SI-ID407413.1 )

#27138

IJSEM 2008 2013 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.044875-0 , PubMed 23041637 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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