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            <surname>Rast</surname>
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            <surname>Glöckner</surname>
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            <surname>Boedeker</surname>
            <given-names>C.</given-names>
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            <surname>Jeske</surname>
            <given-names>O.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Wiegand</surname>
            <given-names>S.</given-names>
          </person-name>
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            <surname>Reinhardt</surname>
            <given-names>R.</given-names>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Schumann</surname>
            <given-names>P.</given-names>
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            <surname>Rohde</surname>
            <given-names>M.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Spring</surname>
            <given-names>S.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Glöckner</surname>
            <given-names>F.O.</given-names>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Jogler</surname>
            <given-names>C.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Jogler</surname>
            <given-names>M.</given-names>
          </person-name>
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        <article-title>Three Novel Species with Peptidoglycan Cell Walls form the New Genus Lacunisphaera gen. nov. in the Family Opitutaceae of the Verrucomicrobial Subdivision 4</article-title>
        <year>2017</year>
        <volume>8</volume>
        <issue>202</issue>
        <source id="1354">Frontiers in Microbiology</source>
        <abbrev>Front. Microbio.</abbrev>
        <essn>1664-302X</essn>
        <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3389/fmicb.2017.00202</pub-id>
        <pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">28243229</pub-id>
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