An initial search doesn’t confirm whether or not mycoplasma age. Bacteria do age though; even seemingly-symmetrical divisions yield one “parent” bacterium that ages and dies.
If mycoplasma genuinely don’t, that would be fascinating and potentially yield valuable clues on the aging mechanism.
Oh wow, that’s really neat. I doubt that it has any relevance to the aging mechanisms of multicellular organisms, but very cool in its own right. And definitely not transposon-mediated.
An initial search doesn’t confirm whether or not mycoplasma age. Bacteria do age though; even seemingly-symmetrical divisions yield one “parent” bacterium that ages and dies.
If mycoplasma genuinely don’t, that would be fascinating and potentially yield valuable clues on the aging mechanism.
Do you have a reference on that? I’m familiar with how it works with budding yeast, but I’ve never heard of anything like that in a prokaryote.
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.0030058
This is the source I found. It’s fairly old, so if you’ve found something that supersedes it I’d be interested.
Oh wow, that’s really neat. I doubt that it has any relevance to the aging mechanisms of multicellular organisms, but very cool in its own right. And definitely not transposon-mediated.