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Ribosomal 5SRNA (rRNA) was isolated from 12 strains belonging to the genera Acidomonas, Acetobacter and Gluconobacter and sequenced. A dendrogram constructed from the data indicated that methylotrophic and non-methylotrophic strains of the genus Acetobacter formed two separate clusters. The non-methylotrophic members of the genus Acetobacter were phylogenetically closer to Gluconobacter than to the methylotrophic strains of Acetobacter. The methylotrophic strains of Acetobacter were recovered as a clade with the type strain of Acidomonas methanolica. These data support an earlier proposal which reclassified methylotrophic strains of Acetobacter into the genus Acidomonas.
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