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Beginning in the late 1970s, results from a variety of studies enabled an increasingly detailed Mollicutes phylogenetic tree to be reconstructed4. The overall tree is based on 16S rRNA sequence analyses and provides a framework for results on other relationships between Mollicutes strains and between Mollicutes and Gram-positive bacteria; e.g., other macromolecule sequences, lipid composition, metabolic enzymes and pathways, gene organization, and antibiotic sensitivity.
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Maniloff, J. (2002). Phylogeny and Evolution. In: Razin, S., Herrmann, R. (eds) Molecular Biology and Pathogenicity of Mycoplasmas. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47606-1_2
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