Liu, Ge


Publications
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Characterization of the first cultured free-living representative of Candidatus Izemoplasma uncovers its unique biology

Citation
Zheng et al. (2021). The ISME Journal 15 (9)
Names
Ca. Izemoplasma
Abstract
AbstractCandidatus Izemoplasma, an intermediate in the reductive evolution from Firmicutes to Mollicutes, was proposed to represent a novel class of free-living wall-less bacteria within the phylum Tenericutes. Unfortunately, the paucity of pure cultures has limited further insights into their physiological and metabolic features as well as ecological roles. Here, we report the first successful isolation of an Izemoplasma representative from the deep-sea methane seep, strain zrk13, using a DNA d

Characterization of the first cultured free-living representative of Candidatus Izimaplasma uncovers its unique biology

Citation
Zheng et al. (2020).
Names
Ca. Izimaplasma
Abstract
AbstractCandidatus Izimaplasma, an intermediate in the reductive evolution from Firmicutes to Mollicutes, was proposed to represent a novel class of free-living wall-less bacteria within the phylum Tenericutes found in deep-sea methane seeps. Unfortunately, the paucity of marine isolates currently available has limited further insights into their physiological and metabolic features as well as ecological roles. Here, we present a detailed description of the phenotypic traits, genomic data and ce