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            <article-title>Validation List no. 24.  Validation of the publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB.</article-title>
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            <fpage>136</fpage>
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            <source id="116">International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology</source>
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                <surname>Wagner</surname>
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            <article-title>Isolation and characterization of new strains of methanogens from cold terrestrial habitats</article-title>
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            <fpage>312</fpage>
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            <source id="121">Systematic and Applied Microbiology</source>
            <abbrev>Syst Appl Microbiol</abbrev>
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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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            <lpage>371</lpage>
            <source id="121">Systematic and Applied Microbiology</source>
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            <surname>Stackebrandt</surname>
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            <surname>Conway de Macario</surname>
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            <surname>Winter</surname>
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        <article-title>Isolation and characterization of Methanocorpusculum parvum, gen. nov., spec. nov., a new tungsten requiring, coccoid methanogen.</article-title>
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        <abbrev>Arch Microbiol</abbrev>
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