Clostridium bovifaecis (JCM 32382, CGMCC 1.5228, BXX)

Name: Clostridium bovifaecis (JCM 32382, CGMCC 1.5228, BXX)
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BacDive ID 159739

Type strain

Strain Designation BXX

Culture col. no. JCM 32382 CGMCC 1.5228 BXX

NCBI tax ID(s) 2184719

Special Collections JCM Literature strains

History B. Fu; Sch. of Environ. & Civil Engineering, Jiangnan Univ., China; BXX.

Clostridium bovifaecis BXX is an anaerobe, spore-forming, Gram-positive bacterium that forms circular colonies and was isolated from cow manure.

spore-forming Gram-positive motile rod-shaped colony-forming anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

Culture Collection Numbers

JCM 32382 CGMCC 1.5228 BXX

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:38:43

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Clostridia

Order Eubacteriales

Family Clostridiaceae

Genus Clostridium

Species Clostridium bovifaecis

Full scientific name Clostridium bovifaecis Zhu et al. 2018

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
66658	positive	rod-shaped

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony color	Colony shape	Medium used
66658	cream	circular	DSMZ medium 311c agar

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth
66658	DSMZ medium 311c agar

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
66658	positive	optimum	30
66658	positive	growth	20-45
67770	positive	growth	30

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
66658	positive	optimum	7
66658	positive	growth	5-10	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
66658	anaerobe
125439	anaerobe	97.8

Spore formation

@ref	Type of spore	Spore formation
66658	spore

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
66658	NaCl	positive	growth	0-2 %

Observation

66658

ObservationThe cells utilize H2/CO2 , syngas (H2:CO2:CO=4:3:3), fructose, glycerol and other substances to generate acetate.

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
66658	46987 ChEBI	alpha-L-arabinopyranose	-	growth
66658	42548 ChEBI	alpha-L-fucose	-	growth
66658	29016 ChEBI	arginine	-	growth
66658	27442 ChEBI	beta-D-fucose	-	growth
66658	15903 ChEBI	beta-d-glucose	-	growth
66658	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	+	assimilation
66658	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	-	growth
66658	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	assimilation
66658	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	+	assimilation
66658	16988 ChEBI	D-ribose	-	growth
66658	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	-	growth
66658	28260 ChEBI	galactose	+	assimilation
66658	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	growth
66658	17203 ChEBI	L-proline	-	growth
66658	25017 ChEBI	leucine	-	growth
66658	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	assimilation
66658	61993 ChEBI	maltotriose	+	assimilation
66658	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	+	assimilation
66658	59640 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	-	growth
66658	73617 ChEBI	Phe-Ala-Pro	-	growth
66658	28044 ChEBI	phenylalanine	-	growth
66658	26020 ChEBI	phosphate	-	growth
66658	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	assimilation
66658	18186 ChEBI	tyrosine	-	growth
66658	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	growth

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Mammals	#Bovinae (Cow, Cattle)
#Host Body Product	#Gastrointestinal tract	#Feces (Stool)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Enrichment culture	Enrichment culture composition	Enrichment culture duration	Isolation procedure
66658	cow manure	DSMZ medium 311c	(per litre) has the following composition: 0.50 g NH4Cl, 0.50 g MgSO4.7H2O, 0.25 g CaCl2.2H2O, 2.25 g NaCl, 2.00 mg FeSO4.7H2O, 1.00 ml trace element solution SL-10 (DSMZ medium 320), 1.00 ml selenite-tungstate solution (see DSMZ medium 385), 2.00 g yeast extract, 2.00 g casitone, 0.50 ml Na-resazurin solution (0.1 % w/v), 0.35 g K2HPO4, 0.23 g KH2PO4, 4.00 g NaHCO3, 10.00 ml vitamin solution (see DSMZ medium 141), 0.30 g L-cysteine-HCl.H2O, 0.30 g Na2S.9 H2O, distilled water added to 1000 ml final volume. The pH was adjusted to 7.0	3 days	Hungate technique
67770	Cow manure

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence MH346511 (>99% sequence identity) for Firmicutes from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	322
Soil Samples	491
Animal Samples	307
Plant Samples	238
Total Samples	1358

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM973843v1 assembly for Clostridium bovifaecis BXX	chromosome	GCA_009738435	2184719.3	2896726320	2184719	57.72

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
66658	Clostridium bovifaecis strain BXX 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	MH346511	1502		2184719

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
67770	32.6	genome sequence analysis
67770	33.7	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Clostridium bovifaecis BXX
IMG: 2896726320

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	86.60	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	83.70	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	positive	73.10	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	anaerobe	97.80	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Clostridium bovifaecis sp. nov., a novel acetogenic bacterium isolated from cow manure.	Zhu H, Fu B, Lu S, Liu H, Liu H	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002928	2018

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 )
#66658	Hui Zhu, Bo Fu, Shuailing Lu, Hongbo Liu, He Liu: Clostridium bovifaecis sp. nov., a novel acetogenic bacterium isolated from cow manure. IJSEM 68: 2956 - 2959 2018 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.002928 , PubMed 30058994 )
#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) .
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#69479	João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .

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Clostridium bovifaecis (JCM 32382, CGMCC 1.5228, BXX)

Name and taxonomic classification

Culture Collection Numbers

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_009738435

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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