Abstract
DNA-DNA hybridization experiments among coryneform bacteria from soil, cheese and sea fish were performed and the genome sizes of 60 of these bacteria determined.
According to the D values obtained with hybridization experiments the soil arthrobacters can be divided into an Arthrobacter simplex and an A. globiformis group. The cheese and sea-fish coryneforms were found to be only remotely related to the soil arthrobacters of the A. globiformis type.
The greater part of the orange cheese coryneforms are homologous to a high degree and appear to be of the Brevibacterium linens type. Low D values between the reference strains indicate that the orange cheese coryneforms are only remotely related to the non-orange ones.
In spite of the morphological resemblance only a minority of the orange seafish coryneforms hybridized significantly with B. linens. The % GC of the majority of these coryneforms are in the range of 63 to 64%.
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Crombach, W.H.J. Relationships among coryneform bacteria from soil, cheese and sea fish. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 40, 347–359 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00399346
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