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The genus Spiroplasma and its non-helical descendants: phylogenetic classification, correlation with phenotype and roots of the Mycoplasma mycoides clade.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology - 1 May 2004
Gasparich Gail E, Whitcomb Robert F, Dodge Deborah, French Frank E, Glass John, Williamson David L
Abstract excerpt
The genus Spiroplasma (helical mollicutes: Bacteria: Firmicutes: Mollicutes: Entomoplasmatales: Spiroplasmataceae) is associated primarily with insects. The Mycoplasma mycoides cluster (sensu Weisburg et al. 1989 and Johansson and Pettersson 2002) is a group of mollicutes that includes the type species - Mycoplasma mycoides - of Mycoplasmatales, Mycoplasmataceae and Mycoplasma. This cluster, associated solely...
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