Abstract
The phylogenetic relationships between the mycoplasmas and bacteria have been established from a comparative analysis of their 16S rRNA oligonucleotide catalogs. The genera Mycoplasma, Spiroplasma, and Acholeplasma arose by degenerative evolution, as a deep branch of the subline of clostridial ancestry that led to Bacillus and Lactobacillus. Thermoplasma has no specific relationship to the other mycoplasmas; it belongs with the archaebacteria.
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Woese, C. R., Maniloff, J., & Zablen, L. B. (1980). Phylogenetic analysis of the mycoplasmas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 77(1), 494–498. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.77.1.494
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