Although both are salient features of genomes, at first glance ribosomal DNAs and
transposable elements are genetic elements with not much in common: whereas ribosomal …

Bacteria of the genus Mycoplasma are the smallest organisms known to be capable of self-
replication. They only occur in association with animal host cells on which they are …

Four avian mycoplasmas are commonly recognized as poultry pathogens: Mycoplasma
gallisepticum (MG), Mycoplasma synoviae (MS), Mycoplasma meleagridis (MM), and …

Conventional classification of the species in the family Mycoplasmataceae is mainly based
on phenotypic criteria, which are complicated, can be difficult to measure, and have the …

In veterinary diagnostic laboratories, identification of mycoplasmas is achieved by
demanding, cost-intensive, and time-consuming methods that rely on antigenic or genetic …

Variation in the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) of the rRNA (rrn) operon is increasingly
used to infer population-level diversity in bacterial communities. However, intragenomic ITS …

Broomrapes (Phelipanche/Orobanche spp.) are holoparasitic plants that subsist on the roots
of a variety of agricultural crops, establishing direct connections with the host vascular …

We have completed sequencing the 16S-23S rRNA intergenic transcribed spacer (ITS)
region of most known Mycoplasma, Acholeplasma, Ureaplasma, Mesoplasma, and …

Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) contains two sets of rRNA genes (5S, 16S and 23S) in its
genome, but only one of the two is organized in an operon cluster and contains a unique …

Since 2006, a Mycoplasma species unidentifiable to the species level has been regularly
isolated from the semen and prepuce of apparently healthy bulls, and occasionally from …