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              <article-title>Mycoplasma lactucae sp. nov., a sterol-requiring mollicute from a plant surface.</article-title>
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        <article-title>A phylogenomic and molecular markers based taxonomic framework for members of the order Entomoplasmatales: proposal for an emended order Mycoplasmatales containing the family Spiroplasmataceae and emended family Mycoplasmataceae comprised of six genera.</article-title>
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        <volume>112</volume>
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        <lpage>588</lpage>
        <source id="227">Antonie van Leeuwenhoek</source>
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