Southern blot showing the occurrence of vmm or vmm-like genes in nine representative strains of the phylogenetic M. mycoides cluster. Genomic DNA was digested with HindIII before separation in agarose gel, and the Southern blot was hybridized with 5G1-insert probe. The samples were loaded in the following order: M. mycoides SC strain Afadé (lane 1), M. mycoides SC strain PG1 (lane 2), M. capricolum strain California Kid (lane 3), M. capricolum strain PP goat 189 (lane 4), M. putrefaciens strain KS1 (lane 5), Mycoplasma sp. bovine serogroup 7 strain PG50 (lane 6), M. capripneumoniae strain F38 (lane 7), M. mycoides LC strain Y goat (lane 8), M. capri strain PG3 (lane 9), M. yeatsii strain GHI (lane 10), M. cottewii strain VIS (lane 11), and M. mycoides SC strain 4813 (lane 12). The scanned blot was processed with Corel Photo-Paint 9.0 and CorelDRAW 9.0.