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Mollicutes Taxonomy
What?
- This website is dedicated to providing curated information of mollicutes taxonomy.
- The class Mollicutes includes minute wall-less bacteria with small genomes (usually 0.5–1.5 Mb) and low G+C DNA content (from 23–40 mol%).
- “Mollicutes” versus “mycoplasma”
- Both terms are used interchangeably in practice in conversation and writing. However, scientifically, “mollicutes” covers more than “mycoplasma”. To be accurate, Mycoplasma is a genus within the class Mollicutes, which is within the phylum Mycoplasmatota.
Why?
- The class Mollicutes includes many pathogenic bacteria that are important to public health, veterinary medicine, aquaculture, and agriculture. Some of the recent taxonomic revisions proposed have created confusion among stakeholders.
- This site was created to clarify the nomenclature of Mollicutes and prevent further confusion among stakeholders in response to multiple requests for clarification received in recent years.
Who?
- This website is maintained by the Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Mollicutes, International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (ICSP)
- Members of the Subcommittee
- Gail Gasparich; USA [Chair]
- Mitchell Balish; USA [Secretary]
- Assunta Bertaccini; Italy
- Alain Blanchard; France
- Ludwig Hölzle; Germany
- Peter Kuhnert; Switzerland
- Chih-Horng Kuo; Taiwan
- Lucia Manso-Silvan; France
- Meghan May; USA
- Ana Sofía Ramírez; Spain
- Joachim Spergser; Austria
- Owen B. Spiller; UK
- Emma L. Sweeney; Australia
- Dmitriy Volokhov; USA
- Wei Wei; USA
- The organization and functions of this subcommittees is according to the on Article 6 of the ICSP Statutes. Particularly:
- 6(b).5.3. Make recommendations regarding classification of the organisms in the taxa under study. A Subcommittee on Taxonomy cannot legislate on classification but may contribute materially towards the general acceptance of a classification.
- 6(b).5.4. Make recommendations to the Judicial Commission regarding nomenclature for the organisms in the taxa under study, including recommendations for the conservation or rejection of names.
- 6(b).5.5. Offer advice on recognition of the nomenclatural types of various taxa.
- 6(b).5.7. Recommend minimal standards for the description of new taxa.
- 6(b).5.8. Maintain a list of validly published and other names that have been applied to the organisms in the taxa under study.
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