@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-52-1-207, author = "Collins, Matthhew D and Hutson, Roger A and Foster, Geoffrey and Falsen, Enevold and Weiss, Norbert", title = "Isobaculum melis gen. nov., sp. nov., a Carnobacterium-like organism isolated from the intestine of a badger.", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "2002", volume = "52", number = "1", pages = "207-210", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-52-1-207", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-52-1-207", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "Phenotypic and phylogenetic studies were performed on a hitherto undescribed facultatively anaerobic, catalase-negative, gram-positive rod-shaped organism, strain M577-94T, isolated from the small intestine of a dead badger. It resembled carnobacteria in terms of its long-chain cellular fatty acid composition, but differed markedly from the latter in possessing a cell-wall murein based on L-lysine (type L-Lys-L-Thr-Gly). Comparative 16S rRNA gene sequencing showed that the unknown bacterium represents a new line closely related to, albeit distinct from, the genera Carnobacterium and Desemzia. On the basis of phylogenetic and phenotypic evidence, it is proposed that strain M577-94T be classified as Isobaculum melis gen. nov., sp. nov. The type strain of Isobaculum melis is CCUG 37660T (= DSM 13760T).", }