Table 1.

Mycoplasma strains used in this study and number of large genomic repeats detected

Strain	Origin	Year isolated	Host	Repeats
				24-kb	13-kb	12-kb	8-kb
PG1a	Unknown	1931	Cattle/type strain	2	2	2	3
2059b	Spain	1984	Cattle/lung	1	1	2	3
B773/125c	Portugal	1991	Cattle/semen	1	1	2	3
B820/123c	Portugal	1991	Cattle/preputial wash	1	1	2	3
C305c	Portugal	1993	Goat/lung	1	1	2	3
C425c	Portugal	1993	Goat/lung	1	1	2	3
PO 2d	France	1980	Cattle/lung	1	1	2	3
2022c	France	1984	Cattle/lung	1	1	2	3
L2e,f	Italy	1993	Cattle/lung	1	1	2	3
402c	Italy	1990	Cattle/lung	1	1	2	3
6479c	Italy	1992	Cattle/lung	1	1	2	3
PO 1967d	France	1967	Cattle/lung	1	1	2	3
Afadéd,f	Cameroong	1968	Cattle	1	2	2	3
Fatickd	Senegal	1968	Cattle	1	2	2	3
B17d	Chad	1967	Zebu	1	1	2	3
7721d	Mauritania	1977	Cattle	1	1	2	3
9050-529/1d	Ivory Coast	1990	Cattle	1	2	2	3
Asmarad	Eritrea	1970	Cattle	1	1	2	3
91130d	Central African Republic	1991	Cattle	1	1	2	3
C11d	Chad	1962	Cattle	1	1	2	3
94111d	Rwanda	1994	Cattle	1	2	2	3
95014d	Tanzania	1995	Cattle	1	2	2	3
T1/44d	Tanzania	1952	Cattle/vaccine strain	1	2	2	3
T1/Sr50d	Tanzania	1952	Cattle/vaccine strain	1	2	2	3
Gladysdaleh	Australia		Cattle	1	2	2	3
R575h	Australia	1965–1968	Cattle	1	1	2	3
DVZh	Australia	1965	Cattle	1	2	2	3
V5h	Australia	1965–1968	Cattle/vaccine strain	1	1	2	3

^aNational collection of type cultures (NCTC), PHLS, London, UK.

^bLaboratoire de Pathologie Bovine, Lyon, France.

^cLaboratorio Nacional de Veterinaria, Lisbon, Portugal.

^dCIRAD-EMVT, Montpellier, France.

^eInstitute for Veterinary Bacteriology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

^fReference strains representing the European-cluster, respectively, African-cluster strains.

^gIsolated at Farcha Laboratory, N'Djaména, Chad from a bovine from Afadé, Northern Cameroon.

^hAustralian Animal Health Laboratory, Geelong, Victoria, Australia.