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            <authors>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Callac</surname>
                <given-names>N.</given-names>
              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Oger</surname>
                <given-names>P.</given-names>
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              <person-name>
                <surname>Lesongeur</surname>
                <given-names>F.</given-names>
              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Rattray</surname>
                <given-names>J.</given-names>
              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Vannier</surname>
                <given-names>P.</given-names>
              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Michoud</surname>
                <given-names>G.</given-names>
              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Beauverger</surname>
                <given-names>M.</given-names>
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                <given-names>N.</given-names>
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              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Godfroy</surname>
                <given-names>A.</given-names>
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            <article-title>Pyrococcus kukulkanii sp. nov., a novel hyperthermophilic piezophilic archaeon
isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent at the Guaymas Basin</article-title>
            <year>2016</year>
            <volume>66</volume>
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            <source id="117">International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology</source>
            <abbrev>Int J Syst Evol Microbiol</abbrev>
            <issn>1466-5026</issn>
            <essn>1466-5034</essn>
            <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1099/ijsem.0.001160</pub-id>
            <pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">27189596</pub-id>
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        <public-note>The type strain is available on request from the ‘Souchothèque de Bretagne’ (catalogue Ifremer) culture collection No. BG1337 (http://wwz.ifremer.fr/umr6197/Souchotheque).</public-note>
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            <surname>Callac</surname>
            <given-names>N.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Oger</surname>
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          </person-name>
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          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Godfroy</surname>
            <given-names>A.</given-names>
          </person-name>
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        <article-title>Pyrococcus kukulkanii sp. nov., a novel hyperthermophilic piezophilic archaeon
isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent at the Guaymas Basin</article-title>
        <year>2016</year>
        <volume>66</volume>
        <issue>8</issue>
        <fpage>3142</fpage>
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        <source id="117">International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology</source>
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