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            <given-names>B.A.</given-names>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Wuhrmann</surname>
            <given-names>K.</given-names>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Zehnder</surname>
            <given-names>A.J.B.</given-names>
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        <article-title>Methanothrix soehngenii gen. nov., sp. nov., a new acetophilic, non-hydrogen oxidizing methane bacterium</article-title>
        <year>1982</year>
        <volume>132</volume>
        <fpage>1</fpage>
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        <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/BF00690808</pub-id>
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            <surname>Boone</surname>
            <given-names>D.R.</given-names>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Whitman</surname>
            <given-names>W.B.</given-names>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Koga</surname>
            <given-names>Y.</given-names>
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            <surname>Garrity</surname>
            <given-names>G.M.</given-names>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Boone</surname>
            <given-names>D.R.</given-names>
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            <surname>Castenholz</surname>
            <given-names>R.W.</given-names>
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        <article-title>Order III. Methanosarcinales ord. nov.</article-title>
        <year>2001</year>
        <volume>1</volume>
        <edition>2</edition>
        <fpage>268</fpage>
        <source id="529">Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology</source>
        <publisher-name>Springer</publisher-name>
        <publisher-loc>New York</publisher-loc>
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