Bovifimicola
| Bovifimicola | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Bacillati |
| Phylum: | Bacillota |
| Class: | Clostridia |
| Order: | Eubacteriales |
| Family: | Lachnospiraceae |
| Genus: | Bovifimicola Hitch et al. 2025 |
| Type species | |
| Bovifimicola ammoniilytica Hitch et al. 2025 | |
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Bovifimicola is a genus of anaerobic bacteria in the family Lachnospiraceae. It is monotypic, containing the single species Bovifimicola ammoniilytica.[1]
Taxonomy
The type strain of B. ammoniilytica is Sanger_97, also deposited as DSM 102166, CCUG 68796 and JCM 37190. It was isolated from the faeces of a healthy person in Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.[2]
Name
The name Bovifimicola is derived from the Latin words bos, meaning cattle, fimum, meaning dung, and the suffix -cola, meaning an inhabitant. It refers to the occurrence of the bacterium in cattle feces, although its type strain was isolated from human feces.[1][3] The species name ammoniilytica refers to its predicted ability to incorporate ammonia into glutamate.[3]
References
- 1 2 "Genus: Bovifimicola". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature. Leibniz Institute DSMZ. Retrieved 23 July 2026.
- ↑ "Bovifimicola ammoniilytica DSM 102166". DSMZ Catalogue. Leibniz Institute DSMZ. Retrieved 23 July 2026.
- 1 2 Hitch, Thomas C. A.; Riedel, Thomas; Oren, Aharon; Overmann, Jörg; Lawley, Trevor D.; Clavel, Thomas (2021). "Automated analysis of genomic sequences facilitates high-throughput and comprehensive description of bacteria". ISME Communications. 1: 16. doi:10.1038/s43705-021-00017-z. PMC 9723785.