Ligilactobacillus is a genus of lactic acid bacteria associated with vertebrate hosts, formed through the 2020 division of the Lactobacillus genus. Most of these homofermentative species are motile and express urease to survive gastric acids, making them popular choices for probiotics. The G/C content of this genus varies between 32.5-43.3%.
Species The genus Ligilactobacillus comprises the following species: Ligilactobacillus acidipiscis (Tanasupawat et al. 2000) Zheng et al. 2020 Ligilactobacillus agilis (Weiss et al. 1982) Zheng et al. 2020 Ligilactobacillus animalis (Dent and Williams 1983) Zheng et al. 2020 Ligilactobacillus apodemi (Osawa et al. 2006) Zheng et al. 2020 Ligilactobacillus araffinosus (Fujisawa et al. 1986) Zheng et al. 2020 Ligilactobacillus aviarius (Fujisawa et al. 1985) Zheng et al. 2020 Ligilactobacillus ceti (Vela et al. 2008) Zheng et al. 2020 Ligilactobacillus equi (Morotomi et al. 2002) Zheng et al. 2020 Ligilactobacillus faecis (Endo et al. 2013) Zheng et al. 2020 Ligilactobacillus hayakitensis (Morita et al. 2007) Zheng et al. 2020 Ligilactobacillus murinus (Hemme et al. 1982) Zheng et al. 2020 Ligilactobacillus pabuli Tohno et al. 2022 Ligilactobacillus pobuzihii (Chen et al. 2010) Zheng et al. 2020 Ligilactobacillus ruminis (Sharpe et al. 1973) Zheng et al. 2020 Ligilactobacillus saerimneri (Pedersen and Roos 2004) Zheng et al. 2020 Ligilactobacillus salitolerans (Tohno et al. 2019) Zheng et al. 2020 Ligilactobacillus salivarius (Rogosa et al. 1953) Zheng et al. 2020
Phylogeny The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature and the phylogeny is based on 16S rRNA sequences using Lactobacillus acidophilus ATCC 4356 as an outgroup.
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