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Tully, J. G., Bové, J. M., Laigret, F., Whitcomb, R. F. (1993). Revised taxonomy of the class <i>Mollicutes</i>: proposed elevation of a monophyletic cluster of arthropod-associated mollicutes to ordinal rank (<i>Entomoplasmatales</i> ord. nov.), with provision for familial rank to separate species with nonhelical morphology (<i>Entomoplasmataceae</i> fam. nov.) from helical species (<i>Spiroplasmataceae</i>), and emended descriptions of the order <i>Mycoplasmatales</i>, family <i>Mycoplasmataceae</i>. <i> Int J Syst Bacteriol </i><b> 43 </b>: 378-385 .
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