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          <source id="1154">The Classification of Lower Organisms</source>
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            <person-name>
              <surname>Imhoff</surname>
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          <article-title>Phylogenetic taxonomy of the family Chlorobiaceae on the basis of 16S rRNA and fmo (Fenna-Matthews-Olson protein) gene sequences.</article-title>
          <year>2003</year>
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          <source id="117">International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology</source>
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