Mycoplasma elephantis (E42, ATCC 51980)

Name: Mycoplasma elephantis (E42, ATCC 51980)
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BacDive ID 167870

Type strain

Strain Designation E42

Culture col. no. E42 ATCC 51980

NCBI tax ID(s) 1408459 114882

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Mycoplasma elephantis E42 is an animal pathogen of the family Mycoplasmataceae.

animal pathogen genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 43272

ATCC 51980

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:40:40

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Mycoplasmatota

Class Mollicutes

Order Mycoplasmatales

Family Mycoplasmataceae

Genus Mycoplasma

Species Mycoplasma elephantis

Full scientific name Mycoplasma elephantis Kirchhoff et al. 1996

Synonyms (1)

"Mycoplasmopsis elephantis"

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Motility	Confidence	Gram stain
125438		96.763
125439		99.8	negative

Culture and growth conditions

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125439	obligate aerobe	98

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		98.6
125438		97.377

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Taxonmaps

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Global distribution of 16S sequence AF221121 (>99% sequence identity) for Mycoplasmataceae from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	14
Soil Samples	7
Animal Samples	274
Plant Samples	7
Total Samples	302

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity animal	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
20215		2	Risk group

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM68781v1 assembly for Mycoplasma elephantis ATCC 51980	contig	GCA_000687815	1408459.3	2556921632	1408459	72.96

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20215	Mycoplasma elephantis isolate E42(T) 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AF221121	1460		114882
124043	Mycoplasma elephantis strain ATCC 51980 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence; 16S-23S ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer, complete sequence; and 23S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence.	AY765212	921		114882

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Mycoplasma elephantis ATCC 51980
NCBI: GCA_000687815

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	98.60	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	53.70	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	99.80	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	98.00	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Mycoplasma elephantis ATCC 51980
PATRIC: 1408459.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	63.23	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	79.44	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	97.38	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	83.26	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	95.98	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	96.76	no

Literature

References

#20215	Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )
#66792	Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .
#69479	João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#126262	A. Lissin, I. Schober, J. F. Witte, H. Lüken, A. Podstawka, J. Koblitz, B. Bunk, P. Dawyndt, P. Vandamme, P. de Vos, J. Overmann, L. C. Reimer: StrainInfo—the central database for linked microbial strain identifiers. ( DOI 10.1093/database/baaf059 )

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