Antibiotic resistance or microbial drug resistance is emerging as a serious threat to human
healthcare globally, and the multidrug-resistant (MDR) strains are imposing major hurdles to …

Abstract Iron-sulfur (Fe/S) proteins are present in virtually all living organisms and are
involved in numerous cellular processes such as respiration, photosynthesis, metabolic …

Mycoplasmas as economically important and pantropic pathogens can cause similar clinical
diseases in different hosts by eluding host defense and establishing their niches despite …

There has been an explosion of metagenomic data representing human, animal, and
environmental microbiomes. This provides an unprecedented opportunity for comparative …

Horizontal gene transfer is an important mechanism of microbial evolution and is often
driven by the movement of mobile genetic elements between cells. Due to the fact that …

Bacteria of the Mycoplasma genus are characterized by the lack of a cell-wall, the use of
UGA as tryptophan codon instead of a universal stop, and their simplified metabolic …

Horizontal gene transfer was long thought to be marginal in Mollicutes, but the capacity of
some of these wall-less bacteria to exchange large chromosomal regions has been recently …

Mycoplasma bovis is a major aetiological agent of bovine respiratory disease worldwide.
Genome-based analyses are increasingly being used to monitor the genetic diversity and …

The prokaryote world is replete with mobile genetic elements (MGEs)–self-replicating
entities that can move within and between their hosts. Many MGEs not only transfer their …

Background Mycoplasma (M.) bovis is a major etiological agent of bovine respiratory
disease, which is the most economically costly disease of cattle worldwide. Cattle disease …