Deoxyribonucleic acid base composition of myxobacteria.
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CONTENT ALERTS Receive: RSS Feeds, eTOCs, free email alerts (when new articles cite this article), more» Information about commercial reprint orders: http://jb.asm.org/site/misc/reprints.xhtml To subscribe to to another ASM Journal go to: http://journals.asm.org/site/subscriptions/ J OURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY, Dec., 1965 Copyright © 1965 American Society for Microbiology Vol 90, No. 6 Printed in U.S.A. MANLEY MANDEL AND E. R. LEADBETTER Departments of Biology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, Houston, Texas, and Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts Downloaded from http://jb.asm.org/ on December 9, 2011 by deepdyve Received for publication 7 August 1965 The order Myxobacterales as presently organized (Bergey's Manual) comprises both fruiting and nonfruiting forms. Soriano (Antonie van Leeuwenhoek J. Microbiol. Serol. 12:215, 1947) proposed that the nonfruiting myxobacters be removed from this order and united with other organisms demonstrating gliding motility and lacking cysts or fruiting bodies in the order Flexibacteriales. Soriano and Lewin (Antonie van Leeuwenhoek J. Microbiol. Serol. 31:66, 1965) changed the spelling to Flexibacterales, but retained the organization. The utility of the average base composition of the deoxyribonucleic acids (DNA) of organisms in assessing possible genetic and taxonomic relations has been reviewed by Marmur, Falkow, and Mandel (Ann. Rev. Microbiol. 17:329,