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            <person-name>
              <surname>Yavitt</surname>
              <given-names>J.B.</given-names>
            </person-name>
            <person-name>
              <surname>Zinder</surname>
              <given-names>S.H.</given-names>
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          <article-title>Methanosphaerula palustris gen. nov., sp. nov., a hydrogenotrophic methanogen isolated from a minerotrophic fen peatland.</article-title>
          <year>2009</year>
          <volume>59</volume>
          <issue>5</issue>
          <fpage>928</fpage>
          <lpage>935</lpage>
          <source id="117">International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology</source>
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          <essn>1466-5034</essn>
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          <pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">19406770</pub-id>
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              <surname>Sakai</surname>
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            <person-name>
              <surname>Ehara</surname>
              <given-names>M.</given-names>
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              <surname>Tseng</surname>
              <given-names>I.-C.</given-names>
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              <surname>Yamaguchi</surname>
              <given-names>T.</given-names>
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              <surname>Cadillo-Quiroz</surname>
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              <surname>Imachi</surname>
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          <article-title>Methanolinea mesophila sp. nov., a hydrogenotrophic methanogen isolated from rice field soil, and proposal of the archaeal family Methanoregulaceae fam. nov. within the order Methanomicrobiales</article-title>
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