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Int J Syst Bacteriol 45 (1995), 740-746; DOI 10.1099/00207713-45-4-740
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Phylogeny of the Genus Corynebacterium Deduced from Analyses of Small-Subunit Ribosomal DNA Sequences

RAYMOND RUIMY1,*, PHILIPPE RIEGEL2, PATRICK BOIRON3, HENRI MONTEIL2 and RICHARD CHRISTEN1

1 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Université Paris 6, Station Zoologique, Villefranche sur mer 06230, France
2 Laboratoire de Bactériologie de la faculté de Médecine, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
3 Unité de Mycologie, Institut Pasteur, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France

* Corresponding author. Phone: (33) 93 76 37 80. Fax: (33) 93 76 38 93. Electronic mail address: ruimy{at}ccrv.obs-vlfr.fr.

ABSTRACT

We determined almost complete small-subunit ribosomal DNA sequences of 50 reference strains belonging to the genera Corynebacterium, Rhodococcus, and Gordona and compared these sequences with previously published sequences. Three phylogenetic methods (the neighbor-joining, maximum-likelihood, and maximum-parsimony methods), as well as a bootstrap analysis, were used to assess the robustness of each topology which we obtained. The results of comparative phylogenetic analyses confirmed that the genera Corynebacterium, Dietzia, Gordona, Mycobacterium, Nocardia, Tsukarmurella, and Turicella form a monophyletic taxon within the phylum containing the high-G+C-content gram-positive bacteria. The genus Corynebacterium appeared to be a monophyletic unit whose members could be divided into four major clusters. The validity of the genus Turicella is doubtful since members of this genus clearly belong to the genus Corynebacterium. The variability of chemotaxonomic characteristics within the genus Corynebacterium suggests that small-subunit ribosomal DNA sequence analysis is probably the most straightforward method for confirming that a bacterium belongs to this genus.




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