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            <surname>Waite</surname>
            <given-names>D.W.</given-names>
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            <surname>Chuvochina</surname>
            <given-names>M.</given-names>
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            <surname>Pelikan</surname>
            <given-names>C.</given-names>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Parks</surname>
            <given-names>D.H.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Yilmaz</surname>
            <given-names>P.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Wagner</surname>
            <given-names>M.</given-names>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Loy</surname>
            <given-names>A.</given-names>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Naganuma</surname>
            <given-names>T.</given-names>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Nakai</surname>
            <given-names>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>Hahn</surname>
            <given-names>M.W.</given-names>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Kuever</surname>
            <given-names>J.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Hugenholtz</surname>
            <given-names>P.</given-names>
          </person-name>
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        <article-title>Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major functional capabilities.</article-title>
        <year>2020</year>
        <volume>70</volume>
        <issue>11</issue>
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        <lpage>6016</lpage>
        <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.0.004213</pub-id>
        <pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">33151140</pub-id>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Krukenberg</surname>
            <given-names>V.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Harding</surname>
            <given-names>K.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Richter</surname>
            <given-names>M.</given-names>
          </person-name>
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            <surname>Glöckner</surname>
            <given-names>F.O.</given-names>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Gruber-Vodicka</surname>
            <given-names>H.R.</given-names>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Adam</surname>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Berg</surname>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Knittel</surname>
            <given-names>K.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Tegetmeyer</surname>
            <given-names>H.E.</given-names>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Boetius</surname>
            <given-names>A.</given-names>
          </person-name>
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            <surname>Wegener</surname>
            <given-names>G.</given-names>
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        <article-title>Candidatus Desulfofervidus auxilii, a hydrogenotrophic sulfate-reducing bacterium involved in the thermophilic anaerobic oxidation of methane.</article-title>
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