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Volume 39, Issue 2

Ribosomal Ribonucleic Acid Cistron Similarities and Deoxyribonucleic Acid Homologies of , and Centers for Disease Control Groups EF-4 and M-5 in the Emended Family Free

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Abstract

We detected distinct taxonomic relationships among the true species, , all species, the type strain of , and members of Centers for Disease Control groups EF-4 and M-5. All these taxa constitute one large separate cluster having high levels of ribosomal ribonucleic acid cistron similarity (thermal dénaturation temperature range, 74 to 81°C) in ribosomal ribonucleic acid superfamily III. There are at least four subbranches. We found high deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)-DNA homology values between and some other true species and within the following species: , and All of the members of this large cluster have genome base compositions in the range from 42.8 to 57.7 mol% guanine plus cytosine. The molecular complexities of the genomic DNAs are 2.2 x I0 to 2.7 × 10 for and species and 1.4 × 10 to 1.8 × 10 for the other members of this large cluster. We formally propose that this large cluster represents the emended family containing the following genera and groups: (not the generically misnamed (not some misnamed strains), and Centers for Disease Control groups EF-4 and M-5. The genera and subgenera , the false neisseriae, and should be removed from the , as they belong to superfamilies I and II.

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Ribosomal Ribonucleic Acid Cistron Similarities and Deoxyribonucleic Acid Homologies of Neisseria, Kingella, Eikenella, Simonsiella, Alysiella, and Centers for Disease Control Groups EF-4 and M-5 in the Emended Family Neisseriaceae
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