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          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.35492" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.4829" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.35492">Entomoplasma seiffertii</identifier>
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          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.4829" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.4829" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.4829">Acholeplasma seiffertii</identifier>
          <authority>Bonnet et al. 1991</authority>
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          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.34359" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.4829" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.34359">Tullyiplasma seiffertii</identifier>
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                <surname>Bonnet</surname>
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              <person-name>
                <surname>Saillard</surname>
                <given-names>C.</given-names>
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              <person-name>
                <surname>Vignault</surname>
                <given-names>J.C.</given-names>
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                <surname>Garnier</surname>
                <given-names>M.</given-names>
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                <surname>Carle</surname>
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                <surname>Bové</surname>
                <given-names>J.M.</given-names>
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                <surname>Rose</surname>
                <given-names>D.L.</given-names>
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                <surname>Tully</surname>
                <given-names>J.G.</given-names>
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                <surname>Whitcomb</surname>
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            <article-title>Acholeplasma seiffertii sp. nov., a mollicute from plant surfaces.</article-title>
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            <source id="116">International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology</source>
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            <surname>Son</surname>
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            <surname>Oren</surname>
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        <article-title>A phylogenomic and molecular markers based taxonomic framework for members of the order Entomoplasmatales: proposal for an emended order Mycoplasmatales containing the family Spiroplasmataceae and emended family Mycoplasmataceae comprised of six genera.</article-title>
        <year>2019</year>
        <volume>112</volume>
        <issue>4</issue>
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        <lpage>588</lpage>
        <source id="227">Antonie van Leeuwenhoek</source>
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