Spiroplasma is a genus of Mollicutes, a group of small bacteria without cell walls. Spiroplasma shares the simple metabolism, parasitic lifestyle, fried-egg colony morphology and small genome of other Mollicutes, but has a distinctive helical morphology, unlike Mycoplasma. It has a spiral shape and moves in a corkscrew motion. Most spiroplasmas ar...
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A member of a group of pleomorphic, wall-less prokaryotes occurring as epiphytes or as intracellular or extracellular parasites or pathogens in a range of invertebrates and plants.
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Gram-negative organisms isolated from the leaves of citrus plants affected by 'stubborn' disease. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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