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                <surname>Trotsenko</surname>
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            <article-title>Classification of halo(alkali)philic and halo(alkali)tolerant methanotrophs provisionally assigned to the genera Methylomicrobium and Methylobacter and emended description of the genus Methylomicrobium.</article-title>
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                <surname>Meier-Kolthoff</surname>
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