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SUBMITTER: Liu P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5289999 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liu Peng P Zheng Huajun H Meng Qingguo Q Terahara Natsuho N Gu Wei W Wang Shengyue S Zhao Guoping G Nakane Daisuke D Wang Wen W Miyata Makoto M
Frontiers in microbiology 20170203
<i>Spiroplasma eriocheiris</i> is a pathogen that causes mass mortality in Chinese mitten crab, <i>Eriocheir sinensis</i>. <i>S. eriocheiris</i> causes tremor disease and infects almost all of the artificial breeding crustaceans, resulting in disastrous effects on the aquaculture economy in China. <i>S. eriocheiris</i> is a wall-less helical bacterium, measuring 2.0 to 10.0 μm long, and can swim up to 5 μm per second in a viscous medium without flagella by switching the cell helicity at a kink t ...[more]