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      <citation citation-type="journal">
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Vanwonterghem</surname>
            <given-names>I.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Evans</surname>
            <given-names>P.N.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Parks</surname>
            <given-names>D.H.</given-names>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Jensen</surname>
            <given-names>P.D.</given-names>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Woodcroft</surname>
            <given-names>B.J.</given-names>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Hugenholtz</surname>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Tyson</surname>
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        <article-title>Methylotrophic methanogenesis discovered in the archaeal phylum Verstraetearchaeota.</article-title>
        <year>2016</year>
        <volume>1</volume>
        <fpage>16170</fpage>
        <lpage>16170</lpage>
        <source id="1384">Nature Microbiology</source>
        <abbrev>Nat Microbiol</abbrev>
        <essn>2058-5276</essn>
        <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.170</pub-id>
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    <created curator="Charles Parker" date="2019-08-09" date-formatted="August 9, 2019" time="14:04:33" time-formatted="14:04 PM" />
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