Soil Collected in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Yielded a Novel <i>Listeria sensu stricto</i> Species, <i>L. swaminathanii</i>
Catharine R. Carlin, Jingqiu Liao, Lauren K. Hudson, Tracey L. Peters, Thomas G. Denes, Renato H. Orsi, Xiaodong Guo, Martin Wiedmann
Abstract
L. swaminathanii is a novel sensu stricto species that originated from a US National Park and it will be the first Listeria identified to date without official standing in the nomenclature. Validation was impeded by the National Park’s requirements for strain access, ultimately deemed too restrictive by the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes.
Topics & Concepts
BiologyListeriaNonsynonymous substitutionGeneticsMultilocus sequence typingSensu strictoMicrobiologyGenomeListeria monocytogenesGenotypeGeneZoologyBacteriaListeria monocytogenes in Food SafetyIdentification and Quantification in FoodMicrobial Inactivation Methods