Sellimonas caecigallum sp. nov., description and genome sequence of a new member of the Sellimonas genus isolated from the cecum of feral chicken

S Wongkuna; S Ghimire; L Antony; S Chankhamhaengdecha; T Janvilisri; J Scaria

doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2019.100626

Sellimonas caecigallum sp. nov., description and genome sequence of a new member of the Sellimonas genus isolated from the cecum of feral chicken

New Microbes New Infect. 2019 Nov 29:33:100626. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2019.100626. eCollection 2020 Jan.

Authors

S Wongkuna^{1

2

3}, S Ghimire^{1

2}, L Antony^{1

2}, S Chankhamhaengdecha⁴, T Janvilisri³, J Scaria^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, USA.
² South Dakota Center for Biologics Research and Commercialization, Brookings, SD, USA.
³ Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
⁴ Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.

Abstract

An obligately anaerobic, non-motile, Gram-positive coccobacillus strain SW451 was isolated from pooled caecum contents of feral chickens. Based on taxono-genomic, and biochemical analyses, the strain SW451 represents a new species of the genus Sellimonas, for which the name Sellimonas caecigallum sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of Sellimonas caecigallum is SW451 (=DSM 109473^T = CCOS 1879^T).

Keywords: Culturomics; Sellimonas caecigallum; feral chicken; new species; taxono-genomics.