Description of Collinsella avium sp. nov., a new member of the Collinsella genus isolated from the ceacum of feral chicken

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

doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2021.100902

Description of Collinsella avium sp. nov., a new member of the Collinsella genus isolated from the ceacum of feral chicken

New Microbes New Infect. 2021 May 18:42:100902. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2021.100902. eCollection 2021 Jul.

Authors

S Wongkuna^{1

2

3}, S Ghimire^{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, 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 and Gram-positive rod bacterium, strain SW219 was isolated from ceacum of feral chickens. Based on 16S rRNA sequence analysis, the strain SW219 exhibited 97.88% similarity to Collinsella massiliensis strain GD3 strain, the closest valid species. The genome size of SW219 was 2.58 Mbp with 64.5 mol% of G+C content. The phenotypic and genotypic analysis suggested that the strain SW219 is a new species belonging to the family Coriobacteriaceae within the Actinobacteria phylum, which the name Collinsella avium sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of Collinsella avium is SW219 (= DSM 109235^T and = CCOS 1884^T).

Keywords: Chicken; Collinsella; gut health; microbiome; new species; taxonogenomics; whole genome.