Table 1.

Classification and general features of Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides strains Afadé and B237

MIGS ID	Property	Term	Evidence codea
	Classification	Domain Bacteria	TAS [39]
		Phylum Firmicutes	TAS [40]
		Class Tenericutes	TAS [41–44]
		Order Mycoplasmatales	TAS [45, 46]
		Family Mycoplasmataceae	TAS [46]
		Genus Mycoplasma	IDA
		Species Mycoplasma mycoides	IDA [4]
		Subspecies Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides	IDA [4]
		Strains Afadé and B237
	Cell shape	Pleomorph	IDA
	Motility	Nonmotile	IDA
	Sporulation	Nonspore-forming	IDA
	Temperature range	30–42 °C	IDA
	Optimum temperature	38.5 °C	IDA
	pH range; optimum	6.5 – 8.5; 7.5	IDA
	Carbon Source	Not determined since strains require complex media including serum for growth	-
	Energy Source	Not determined since strains require complex media including serum for growth	-
MIGS-6	Habitat	Respiratory tract	IDA
MIGS-6.3	Salinity	0.09 %, no growth was obtained at salinities ≥0.5 M NaCl	IDA
MIGS-22	Oxygen Requirement	Facultative anaerobe	[42]
MIGS-15	Biotic relationship	Pathogen	-
MIGS-14	Pathogenicity	Etiological agent of Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP)	-
MIGS-4	Geographic location	Cameroon (Afadé), Kenya (B237)	[3]
MIGS-5	Sample collection time	1965 (Afadé), 1997 (B237)	-
MIGS-4.1	Latitude	Northern Cameroon (Afadé) 01°03′S (B237)
MIGS-4.2	Longitude	N/A (Afadé) 37°05′E (B237)
MIGS-4.3	Depth	N/A
MIGS-4.4	Altitude	N/A (Afadé), 1631 m (B237)

^aEvidence codes - IDA: Inferred from Direct Assay; TAS: Traceable Author Statement (i.e., a direct report exists in the literature); NAS: Non-traceable Author Statement (i.e., not directly observed for the living, isolated sample, but based on a generally accepted property for the species, or anecdotal evidence). These evidence codes are from the Gene Ontology project [47]