RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Alvarez-Perez, Sergio A1 Baker, Lydia J. A1 Morris, Megan M. A1 Tsuji, Kaoru A1 Sanchez, Vivianna A. A1 Fukami, Tadashi A1 Vannette, Rachel L. A1 Lievens, Bart A1 Hendry, Tory A.YR 2021 T1 Acinetobacter pollinis sp. nov., Acinetobacter baretiae sp. nov. and Acinetobacter rathckeae sp. nov., isolated from floral nectar and honey bees JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 71 IS 5 OP SP 004783 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004783 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB A detailed evaluation of eight bacterial isolates from floral nectar and animal visitors to flowers shows evidence that they represent three novel species in the genus Acinetobacter . Phylogenomic analysis shows the closest relatives of these new isolates are Acinetobacter apis , Acinetobacter boissieri and Acinetobacter nectaris , previously described species associated with floral nectar and bees, but high genome-wide sequence divergence defines these isolates as novel species. Pairwise comparisons of the average nucleotide identity of the new isolates compared to known species is extremely low (<83 %), thus confirming that these samples are representative of three novel Acinetobacter species, for which the names Acinetobacter pollinis sp. nov., Acinetobacter baretiae sp. nov. and Acinetobacter rathckeae sp. nov. are proposed. The respective type strains are SCC477T (=TSD-214T=LMG 31655T), B10AT (=TSD-213T=LMG 31702T) and EC24T (=TSD-215T=LMG 31703T=DSM 111781T)., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.004783