Draft Genome Sequence of Spiroplasma platyhelix ATCC 51748, Isolated from a Dragonfly

Emily A Green; Jonathan L Klassen

doi:10.1128/MRA.00422-20

Draft Genome Sequence of Spiroplasma platyhelix ATCC 51748, Isolated from a Dragonfly

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Nov 19;9(47):e00422-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00422-20.

Authors

Emily A Green¹, Jonathan L Klassen²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA.
² Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA jonathan.klassen@uconn.edu.

Abstract

Spiroplasma platyhelix is a helical bacterium belonging to the class Mollicutes First isolated from a Pachydiplax longipennis dragonfly, it has the smallest reported Spiroplasma genome size of 740 kbp. Here, we report the genome sequence of S. platyhelix ATCC 51748.