Proposal for an Amended Classification of Anaerobic Mollicutes
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Microbiology Society in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
- Vol. 37 (1) , 78-81
- https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-37-1-78
Abstract
The taxonomic status of the obligately anaerobic mycoplasmas has remained controversial since their discovery in 1973. For this reason, Anaeroplasma, the single recognized genus, has not been assigned to a higher taxon in the class Mollicutes. Nutritional, biochemical, serological, and genomic data indicate that the anaerobic mollicutes compose a heterogeneous assemblage of organisms, all of which are distinct from facultatively anaerobic mollicutes. A revised and extended classification of these organisms is proposed.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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