Miniscule Mollicutes: Current hurdles to bacteriophage identification

J Catchpowle, J Maynard, BJ Chang… - Sustainable …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Mollicutes are a diverse class of bacteria with a variety of unique characteristics that have
allowed them to adapt to a range of hosts and often evade routine cultivation techniques …

Integrated Information for Pathogenicity and Treatment of Spiroplasma

Y You, J Xiao, J Chen, Y Li, R Li, S Zhang, Q Jiang… - Current …, 2024 - Springer
Spiroplasma, belonging to the class Mollicutes, is a small, helical, motile bacterium lacking a
cell wall. Its host range includes insects, plants, and aquatic crustaceans. Recently, a few …

Male-killing mechanisms vary between Spiroplasma species

H Arai, MN Inoue, D Kageyama - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Male-killing, a male-specific death of arthropod hosts during development, is induced by
Spiroplasma (Mollicutes) endosymbionts of the Citri–Poulsonii and the Ixodetis groups …

Diverse toxin repertoire but limited metabolic capacities inferred from the draft genome assemblies of three Spiroplasma (Citri clade) strains associated with …

P Ramirez, H Martinez Montoya, R Aramayo, M Mateos - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Spiroplasma (Class Mollicutes) is a diverse wall-less bacterial genus whose members are
strictly dependent on eukaryotic hosts (mostly arthropods and plants), with which they …