%0 Journal Article %A Volokhov, Dmitriy V. %A Amselle, Megan %A Beck, Brian J. %A Popham, David L. %A Whittaker, Paul %A Wang, Hua %A Kerrigan, Elizabeth %A Chizhikov, Vladimir E. %T Lactobacillus brantae sp. nov., isolated from faeces of Canada geese (Branta canadensis) %D 2012 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 62 %N Pt_9 %P 2068-2076 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.033852-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X Three strains of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) were isolated from the faeces of apparently healthy wild Canada geese (Branta canadensis) in 2010 by cultivating faecal LAB on Rogosa SL agar under aerobic conditions. These three isolates were found to share 99.9 % gene sequence similarity of their 16S rRNA, their 16S–23S intergenic transcribed spacer region (ITS), partial 23S rRNA, rpoB, rpoC, rpoA and pheS gene sequences. However, the three strains exhibited lower levels of sequence similarity of these genetic targets to all known LAB, and the phylogenetically closest species to the geese strains were Lactobacillus casei , Lactobacillus paracasei , Lactobacillus rhamnosus and Lactobacillus saniviri . In comparison to L. casei ATCC 393T, L. paracasei ATCC 25302T, L. rhamnosus ATCC 7469T and L. saniviri DSM 24301T, the novel isolates reacted uniquely in tests for cellobiose, galactose, mannitol, citric acid, aesculin and dextrin, and gave negative results in tests for l-proline arylamidase and l-pyrrolydonyl-arylamidase, and in the Voges-Proskauer test. Biochemical tests for cellobiose, aesculin, galactose, gentiobiose, mannitol, melezitose, ribose, salicin, sucrose, trehalose, raffinose, turanose, amygdalin and arbutin could be used for differentiation between L. saniviri and the novel strains. On the basis of phenotypic and genotypic characteristics, and phylogenetic data, the three isolates represent a novel species of the genus Lactobacillus , for which the name Lactobacillus brantae sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is SL1108T ( = ATCC BAA-2142T = LMG 26001T = DSM 23927T) and two additional strains are SL1170 and SL60106. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.033852-0