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            <article-title>Validation List no. 6. Validation of the publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB.</article-title>
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            <source id="116">International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology</source>
            <abbrev>Int J Syst Bacteriol</abbrev>
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            <article-title>Improved strategy for presumptive identification of methanogens using 16S riboprinting</article-title>
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            <source id="1180">Journal of Microbiological Methods</source>
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                <surname>Woese</surname>
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            <article-title>A detailed phylogeny for the Methanomicrobiales.</article-title>
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            <source id="121">Systematic and Applied Microbiology</source>
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        <article-title>Methanogens: reevaluation of a unique biological group.</article-title>
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