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. 1983 Mar;153(3):1338–1341. doi: 10.1128/jb.153.3.1338-1341.1983

Nucleic acid relationships among Acholeplasma species.

G S Aulakh, E B Stephens, D L Rose, J G Tully, M F Barile
PMCID: PMC221782  PMID: 6826524

Abstract

3H-labeled Acholeplasma DNA probes were generated in vitro by the nick-translation method and used to determine the nucleotide sequence homology among the type strains of the eight currently recognized species of Acholeplasma. Very little nucleotide sequence homology (less than or equal to 18%) was found among the eight species, with heteroduplexes showing at least 12% or more mismatching as determined by thermal elution midpoints. The small amount of nucleotide sequence homology among the eight species indicates that these species are quite distinct and are not closely related to each other genomically.

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