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            <surname>Sakai</surname>
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            <surname>Imachi</surname>
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            <surname>Hanada</surname>
            <given-names>S.</given-names>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Ohashi</surname>
            <given-names>A.</given-names>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Harada</surname>
            <given-names>H.</given-names>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Kamagata</surname>
            <given-names>Y.</given-names>
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        <article-title>Methanocella paludicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a methane-producing archaeon, the first isolate of the lineage 'Rice Cluster I', and proposal of the new archaeal order Methanocellales ord. nov.</article-title>
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        <source id="117">International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology</source>
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        <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1099/ijs.0.65571-0</pub-id>
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