A dominant, genome-reduced symbiont of the whiteleg shrimp gastric microbiome retains an atypical peptidoglycan biosynthesis pathway: Genomic characterization of Candidatus Penaeiplasma gastricola gen. Nov., sp. nov.
Symbiotic bacteria belonging to the class Mollicutes are widely associated with arthropods, yet their ecological roles in crustaceans remain poorly understood. Our previous 16S rRNA gene amplicon surveys revealed that Mollicutes consistently dominated the gastric microbiota of the whiteleg shrimp Penaeus vannamei. To c...