Bifidobacterium asteroides

Bifidobacterium asteroides is a gram-positive, rod-shaped species of bacteria. Various strains of this species have been isolated from the hindguts of honey bees.[2][3] Prior to 1969, this species was referred to as strains of Bacillus constellatus.[4]

Bifidobacterium asteroides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Bacteria
Division:
Firmicutes
Class:
Actinobacteria
Order:
Bifidobacteriales
Family:
Bifidobacteriaceae
Genus:
Bifidobacterium
Species:
B. asteroides
Binomial name
Bifidobacterium asteroides
(Scardovi and Trovatelli, 1969)[1]

References
  1. Scardovi, V; Trovatelli, LD (1969). "New species of bifid bacteria from Apis mellifica L. and Apis indica F. A contribution to the taxonomy and biochemistry of the genus Bifidobacterium". Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie, Mikrobiologie und Hygiene II (123): 64–88.
  2. Bottacini, Francesca; Milani, Christian; Turroni, Francesca; Sánchez, Borja; Foroni, Elena; Duranti, Sabrina; Serafini, Fausta; Viappiani, Alice; Strati, Francesco; Ferrarini, Alberto; Delledonne, Massimo; Henrissat, Bernard; Coutinho, Pedro; Fitzgerald, Gerald F.; Margolles, Abelardo; van Sinderen, Douwe; Ventura, Marco; Horn, Matthias (20 September 2012). "Bifidobacterium asteroides PRL2011 Genome Analysis Reveals Clues for Colonization of the Insect Gut". PLoS ONE. 7 (9): e44229. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0044229. PMC 3447821. PMID 23028506.
  3. Sgorbati, B; Scardovi, V; Leblanc, DJ (Oct 1986). "Related structures in the plasmid profiles of Bifidobacterium asteroides, B. indicum and B. globosum". Microbiologica. 9 (4): 443–54. PMID 3773785.
  4. KANDLER, O. (1 October 1970). "Amino acid sequence of the murein and taxonomy of the genera Lactobacillus, Bifidobacterium, Leuconostoc and Pediococcus". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 20 (4): 491–507. doi:10.1099/00207713-20-4-491.

Further reading

Hayashi, Kyohei; Maekawa, Itaru; Tanaka, Kunifusa; Ijyuin, Susumu; Shiwa, Yu; Suzuki, Ippei; Niimura, Youichi; Kawasaki, Shinji (January 2013). "Purification and characterization of oxygen-inducible haem catalase from oxygen-tolerant Bifidobacterium asteroides". Microbiology. 159 (1): 89–95. doi:10.1099/mic.0.059741-0. PMID 23154971.


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