Lactobacillus apinorum belongs to the fructophilic lactic acid bacteria

Bioscience of Microbiota, Food and Health

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 147-149

  Maeno, Shintaro ^a   Dicks, Leon ^b   Nakagawa, Junichi ^a   Endo, Akihito ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Fructophilic lactic acid bacteria; Genomics; Honeybees; Lactobacillus apinorum; Reductive evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 85029689486     PISSN: 21866953     EISSN: 21863342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12938/bmfh.17-008     Document Type: Note

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