Title |
Mycoplasma mycoides, from "mycoides Small Colony" to "capri". A microevolutionary perspective
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Published in |
BMC Genomics, February 2011
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2164-12-114 |
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Authors |
Francois Thiaucourt, Lucia Manso-Silvan, Woubit Salah, Valérie Barbe, Benoit Vacherie, Daniel Jacob, Marc Breton, Virginie Dupuy, Anne Marie Lomenech, Alain Blanchard, Pascal Sirand-Pugnet |
Abstract |
The Mycoplasma mycoides cluster consists of five species or subspecies that are ruminant pathogens. One subspecies, Mycoplasma mycoides subspecies mycoides Small Colony (MmmSC), is the causative agent of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia. Its very close relative, Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. capri (Mmc), is a more ubiquitous pathogen in small ruminants causing mastitis, arthritis, keratitis, pneumonia and septicaemia and is also found as saprophyte in the ear canal. To understand the genetics underlying these phenotypic differences, we compared the MmmSC PG1 type strain genome, which was already available, with the genome of an Mmc field strain (95010) that was sequenced in this study. We also compared the 95010 genome with the recently published genome of another Mmc strain (GM12) to evaluate Mmc strain diversity. |
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