Revised Taxonomy of the Class Mollicutes: Proposed Elevation of a Monophyletic Cluster of Arthropod-Associated Mollicutes to Ordinal Rank (Entomoplasmatales ord. nov.), with Provision for Familial Rank To Separate Species with Nonhelical Morphology (Entomoplasmataceae fam. nov.) from Helical Species (Spiroplasmataceae), and Emended Descriptions of the Order Mycoplasmatales, Family Mycoplasmataceae

• Joseph G. Tully¹, Joseph M. Bové¹, Frédéric Laigret¹ and Robert F. Whitcomb¹
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  ¹ Mycoplasma Section, Frederick Cancer Research, and Development Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Frederick, Maryland 21702; Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire et MolÉculaire, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique and University of Bordeaux II, 33883 Villenave-d’Ornon Cedex, France; and Insect Biocontrol Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland 20705
• Published: 01 July 1993 https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-43-3-630a