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          <article-title>Genus II. Nitrospina Watson and Waterbury 1971, 225</article-title>
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          <article-title>Characteristics of two marine nitrite oxidizing bacteria, Nitrospina gracilis nov. gen. nov. sp. and Nitrococcus mobilis nov. gen. nov. sp.</article-title>
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