León, A. V-P., Dominguez-Mirazo, M., Bustamante-Brito, R., Higareda-Alvear, V., Rosenblueth, M., & Martínez-Romero, E. 2021 Functional genomics of a Spiroplasma associated with the carmine cochineals Dactylopius coccus and Dactylopius opuntiae. BMC Genomics doi.org/10.1186/s12864-021-07540-2

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Notes: Here we present three Spiroplasma genomes independently recovered from metagenomes of adult males and females of D. coccus, from two different populations, as well as from adult females of D. opuntiae. Single-copy gene analysis showed that these genomes were > 92% complete. Phylogenomic analyses classified these genomes as new members of Spiroplasma ixodetis.

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