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        <authority>None 2015</authority>
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            <article-title>Status of strains that contravene Rules 27 (3) and 30 of the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria. Opinion 81.</article-title>
            <year>2008</year>
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            <source id="117">International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology</source>
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              <person-name>
                <surname>Trotsenko</surname>
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            <article-title>Phylogenetic position and emended description of the genus Methylovorus.</article-title>
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            <fpage>903</fpage>
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            <source id="117">International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology</source>
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        <article-title>Methylovorus mays sp. nov.: a new species of aerobic, obligately methylotrophic bacteria associated with plants.</article-title>
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