Trabulsiella odontotermitis (DSM 22557, BCRC 17577, LMG 23580)

Name: Trabulsiella odontotermitis (DSM 22557, BCRC 17577, LMG 23580)
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BacDive ID 5183

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 22557 BCRC 17577 LMG 23580 Eant 3-9

NCBI tax ID(s) 379893

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- LMG <- W.-M. Chen, Natl. Kaohsiung Marine Univ. Taiwan

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Trabulsiella odontotermitis DSM 22557 is a bacterium that was isolated from gut of the termite Odontotermes formosanus Shiraki collected under decaying bamboo tree.

16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 290801

LMG 23580,BCRC 17577,CCRC 17577,DSM 22557

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:18:54

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Enterobacterales

Family Enterobacteriaceae

Genus Trabulsiella

Species Trabulsiella odontotermitis

Full scientific name Trabulsiella odontotermitis Chou et al. 2007

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
16398	NUTRIENT AGAR (DSMZ Medium 1)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: NUTRIENT AGAR (DSMZ Medium 1) Composition: Agar 15.0 g/l Peptone 5.0 g/l Meat extract 3.0 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
16398	positive	growth	28

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Arthropoda	#Insecta
#Host Body-Site	#Gastrointestinal tract	#Stomach

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
16398	gut of the termite Odontotermes formosanus Shiraki collected under decaying bamboo tree	Odontotermes formosanus	Southern Taiwan, Pingtung County	Taiwan, Province of China	TWN	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence DQ453129 (>99% sequence identity) for Enterobacteriaceae from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	109
Soil Samples	12
Animal Samples	1211
Plant Samples	56
Total Samples	1388

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
16398	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
16398	Trabulsiella odontotermitis strain Eant 3-9 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	DQ453129	1450		379893

GC content

16398

GC-content (mol%)55.7

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	The Enterobacterium Trabulsiella odontotermitis Presents Novel Adaptations Related to Its Association with Fungus-Growing Termites.	Sapountzis P, Gruntjes T, Otani S, Estevez J, da Costa RR, Plunkett G, Perna NT, Poulsen M.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.01844-15	2015
	Host-Specific Diversity of Culturable Bacteria in the Gut Systems of Fungus-Growing Termites and Their Potential Functions towards Lignocellulose Bioconversion.	Xie R, Dong C, Wang S, Danso B, Dar MA, Pandit RS, Pawar KD, Geng A, Zhu D, Li X, Xu Q, Sun J.	Insects	10.3390/insects14040403	2023
Phylogeny	Trabulsiella odontotermitis sp. nov., isolated from the gut of the termite Odontotermes formosanus Shiraki.	Chou JH, Chen WM, Arun AB, Young CC	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.64632-0	2007

References

#16398	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 22557
#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 )
#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 .
#126262	A. Lissin, I. Schober, J. F. Witte, H. Lüken, A. Podstawka, J. Koblitz, B. Bunk, P. Dawyndt, P. Vandamme, P. de Vos, J. Overmann, L. C. Reimer: StrainInfo—the central database for linked microbial strain identifiers. ( DOI 10.1093/database/baaf059 )

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Trabulsiella odontotermitis (DSM 22557, BCRC 17577, LMG 23580)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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