Characterization and description of Faecalibacterium butyricigenerans sp. nov. and F. longum sp. nov., isolated from human faeces

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 11340 - 13
• Main Authors: Zou, Yuanqiang, Lin, Xiaoqian, Xue, Wenbin, Tuo, Li, Chen, Ming-Sheng, Chen, Xiao-Hui, Sun, Cheng-hang, Li, Feina, Liu, Shao-wei, Dai, Ying, Kristiansen, Karsten, Xiao, Liang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 31.05.2021; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 631/114/2785; 631/208/726; 631/326; 631/326/41; Faecalibacterium; Faecalibacterium prausnitzii; Feces; Genomes; Humanities and Social Sciences; Intestinal microflora; Microbiota; multidisciplinary; New species; Nucleotide sequence; Phylogenetics; Phylogeny; Pure culture; rRNA 16S; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Whole genome sequencing

Exploiting a pure culture strategy to investigate the composition of the human gut microbiota, two novel anaerobes, designated strains AF52-21 T and CM04-06 T , were isolated from faeces of two healthy Chinese donors and characterized using a polyphasic approach. The two strains were observed to be...