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          <person-name>
            <surname>Zellner</surname>
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            <surname>Conway de Macario</surname>
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            <surname>Winter</surname>
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        </authors>
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        <volume>147</volume>
        <fpage>13</fpage>
        <lpage>20</lpage>
        <source id="118">Archives of Microbiology</source>
        <abbrev>Arch Microbiol</abbrev>
        <issn>0302-8933</issn>
        <essn>1432-072X</essn>
        <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1007/BF00492898</pub-id>
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            <surname>Tindall</surname>
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            <surname>Kneifel</surname>
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            <surname>Sleytr</surname>
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        <article-title>Methanocorpusculaceae fam. nov., represented by Methanocorpusculum parvum, Methanocorpusculum sinense spec. nov. and Methanocorpusculum bavaricum spec. nov.</article-title>
        <year>1989</year>
        <volume>151</volume>
        <fpage>381</fpage>
        <lpage>390</lpage>
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          </person-name>
        </authors>
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        <year>1989</year>
        <volume>39</volume>
        <issue>2</issue>
        <fpage>109</fpage>
        <lpage>111</lpage>
        <source id="116">International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology</source>
        <abbrev>Int J Syst Bacteriol</abbrev>
        <issn>0020-7713</issn>
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            <given-names>Y.</given-names>
          </person-name>
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            <surname>Boone</surname>
            <given-names>D.R.</given-names>
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            <surname>Boone</surname>
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          </person-name>
        </authors>
        <article-title>Isolation and characterization of Methanocorpusculum labreanum sp. nov. from the LaBrea Tar Pits.</article-title>
        <year>1989</year>
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