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      <citation citation-type="journal">
        <authors>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Cheng</surname>
            <given-names>L.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Qiu</surname>
            <given-names>T.L.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Yin</surname>
            <given-names>X.B.</given-names>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Wu</surname>
            <given-names>X.L.</given-names>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Hu</surname>
            <given-names>G.Q.</given-names>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Deng</surname>
            <given-names>Y.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Zhang</surname>
            <given-names>H.</given-names>
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        <article-title>Methermicoccus shengliensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, methylotrophic methanogen isolated from oil-production water, and proposal of Methermicoccaceae fam. nov.</article-title>
        <year>2007</year>
        <volume>57</volume>
        <issue>12</issue>
        <fpage>2964</fpage>
        <lpage>2969</lpage>
        <source id="117">International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology</source>
        <abbrev>Int J Syst Evol Microbiol</abbrev>
        <issn>1466-5026</issn>
        <essn>1466-5034</essn>
        <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1099/ijs.0.65049-0</pub-id>
        <pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">18048758</pub-id>
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