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Notes: Revised Taxonomy of the Class Mollicutes: Proposed Elevation of a Monophyletic Cluster of Arthropod-Associated Mollicutes to Ordinal Rank (Entomoplasmatales ord. nov.), with Provision for Familial Rank To Separate Species with Nonhelical Morphology (Entomoplasmataceae fam. nov.) from Helical Species (Spiroplasmataceae), and Emended Descriptions of the Order Mycoplasmatales, Family Mycoplasmataceae

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 1993; 43(2):378 · https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-43-2-378

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1Mycoplasma Section, Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Frederick, Maryland 21702
2Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique and University of Bordeaux II, 33883 Villenave-d'Ornon Cedex, France
3Insect Biocontrol Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland 20705