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Eleven strains of Epidermophyton floccosum were compared with 5 Microsporum and 5 Trichophyton species with respect to the restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) of the mitochondrial DNA to reveal their phylogenetic relationships. The phylogeny of 11 species showed that the three dermatophyte genera could not be separated from each other and could be considered to be congeneric. This result is not inconsistent with the results from ribosomal RNA sequences.
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Kawasaki, M., Aoki, M., Ishizaki, H. et al. Phytogeny of Epidermophyton floccosum and other dermatophytes. Mycopathologia 134, 121–128 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00436718
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