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Describe the size and content of the genome. How many chromosomes? Circular or linear? Other interesting features? What is known about its sequence? | Describe the size and content of the genome. How many chromosomes? Circular or linear? Other interesting features? What is known about its sequence? | ||
Bombella apis has a genome that is 2,086,308 bp long and contains 1,975 protein-coding genes. [4] | |||
==Cell Structure, Metabolism and Life Cycle== | ==Cell Structure, Metabolism and Life Cycle== | ||
Revision as of 15:19, 20 April 2022
Classification
Bacteria; Pseudomonadota; Alphaproteobacteria; Rhodospirillales; Acetobacteraceae; Bombella
Species
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NCBI: Taxonomy |
Bombella apis
Description and Significance
Bombella apis is a gram-negative bacteria that is rod-shaped. It is a non-motile aerobic bacteria. Bombella apis can be found in the midgut of honey bees. [2]
Genome Structure
Describe the size and content of the genome. How many chromosomes? Circular or linear? Other interesting features? What is known about its sequence?
Bombella apis has a genome that is 2,086,308 bp long and contains 1,975 protein-coding genes. [4]
Cell Structure, Metabolism and Life Cycle
Interesting features of cell structure; how it gains energy; what important molecules it produces.
B. apis is an acetic acid bacteria bacteria, conducting oxidative fermentation. Their cells are non-motile, aerobic, Gram-negative rods that are 1.0–2.5 µm in length and 0.5–0.6 µm wide. It colonizes the midgut of Apis mellifera, the western honey bee. It and other Bombella species are associated with the larval gut and nurse bee hypopharyngeal gland. Due to this, it is hypothesized that B. apis is spread between individuals as nurse bees feed larvae and the queen.
Ecology and Pathogenesis
Habitat; symbiosis; biogeochemical significance; contributions to environment.
If relevant, how does this organism cause disease? Human, animal, plant hosts? Virulence factors, as well as patient symptoms.
Bombella apis has been sequenced and found to be closely associated with nectar, developing honey bee larvae, and honey bee queens. Bombella apis is found in well-defined niches within the bee community. It is very rare to find it outside these niches. These locations include the queen's gut microbiome, nurse hypo pharyngeal glands, nurse crops, and in royal jelly. [3]
Bombella apis has been found to be able to protect themselves against phages. [3]
References
NEEDS FORMATING
1:https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.001921?crawler=true
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombella_apis 3: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7664317/ 4: https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/MRA.01329-19
Author
Page authored by Cullen Vincent, student of Prof. Jay Lennon at IndianaUniversity.
