Soil Collected in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Yielded a Novel Listeria sensu stricto Species, L. swaminathanii.

ABSTRACT: Soil samples collected in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park yielded a Listeria isolate that could not be classified to the species level. Whole-genome sequence-based average nucleotide identity BLAST and in silico DNA-DNA Hybridization analyses confirmed this isolate to be a novel Listeria sensu stricto species with the highest similarity to L. marthii (ANI = 93.9%, isDDH = 55.9%). Additional whole-genome-based analysis using the Genome Taxonomy Database Toolkit further supported delineation as a novel Listeria sensu stricto species, as this tool failed to assign a species identification. Phenotypic and genotypic characterization results indicate that this species is nonpathogenic. Specifically, the novel Listeria species described here is ph

SUBMITTER: Carlin CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9241783 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature