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Abstract
The deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) relationships among strains of the anaerobic Lactobacillus species L. ruminis and L. vitulinus, other lactobacilli with meso-diaminopimelic acid in the cell wall peptidoglycan, and L. jensenii were studied by DNA-DNA hybridization experiments. The DNA of strains assigned to L. ruminis had a high degree of homology. However, strains which have been assigned to L. vitulinus were genotypically heterogenous, three different unrelated groups being included. There was a very low level of homology between these two species and between them and L. plantarum subsp. mobilis, L. plantarum, and L. jensenii.
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© American Society for Microbiology, 1977