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          <article-title>Desulfolobus ambivalens, gen. nov., sp. nov., an autotrophic archaebacterium facultatively oxidizing or reducing sulfur</article-title>
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            <surname>Huber</surname>
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            <surname>Burggraf</surname>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Stetter</surname>
            <given-names>K.O.</given-names>
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        <article-title>16S rDNA-based phylogeny of the archeal order Sulfolobus and reclassification of Desulfurolobus ambivalens as Acidianus ambivalens comb. nov.</article-title>
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            <surname>Rettenberger</surname>
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          <person-name>
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            <given-names>G.</given-names>
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        <article-title>Desulfolobus ambivalens, gen. nov., sp. nov., an autotrophic archaebacterium facultatively oxidizing or reducing sulfur</article-title>
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        <volume>8</volume>
        <fpage>197</fpage>
        <lpage>203</lpage>
        <source id="121">Systematic and Applied Microbiology</source>
        <abbrev>Syst Appl Microbiol</abbrev>
        <issn>0723-2020</issn>
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        <article-title>Validation List no. 23. Validation of the publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB.</article-title>
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        <fpage>179</fpage>
        <lpage>180</lpage>
        <source id="116">International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology</source>
        <abbrev>Int J Syst Bacteriol</abbrev>
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