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        <authority>Dedysh et al. 2000 emend. Dedysh et al. 2004</authority>
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        <authority>Dedysh et al. 2002 emend. Dunfield et al. 2010</authority>
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        <authority>Vorobev et al. 2011</authority>
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        <authority>Berestovskaya et al. 2012</authority>
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        <authority>Imhoff 2001</authority>
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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.1450" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.1451" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.1451" rank="genus" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.1450">Chelatococcus</identifier>
        <authority>Auling et al. 1993 emend. Yoon et al. 2008</authority>
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        <authority>Vorob'ev et al. 2009</authority>
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        <authority>corrig. Pratscher et al. 2018</authority>
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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.35443" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.35443" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.35443">Methyloaffinis lahnbergensis</identifier>
        <authority>(sic) Pratscher et al. 2018</authority>
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      <citation citation-type="journal">
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Pratscher</surname>
            <given-names>J.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Vollmers</surname>
            <given-names>J.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Wiegand</surname>
            <given-names>S.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Dumont</surname>
            <given-names>M.G.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Kaster</surname>
            <given-names>A.-K.</given-names>
          </person-name>
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        <article-title>Unravelling the Identity, Metabolic Potential and Global Biogeography of the Atmospheric Methane-Oxidizing Upland Soil Cluster α.</article-title>
        <year>2018</year>
        <volume>20</volume>
        <issue>3</issue>
        <fpage>1016</fpage>
        <lpage>1029</lpage>
        <source id="359">Environmental Microbiology</source>
        <abbrev>Environ Microbiol</abbrev>
        <issn>1462-2912</issn>
        <essn>1462-2920</essn>
        <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1111/1462-2920.14036</pub-id>
        <pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">29314604</pub-id>
      </citation>
    </reference>
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    <modified curator="Charles Parker" date="2019-08-26" date-formatted="August 26, 2019" time="20:48:12" time-formatted="20:48 PM" />
    <created curator="Charles Parker" date="2019-08-26" date-formatted="August 26, 2019" time="20:47:52" time-formatted="20:47 PM" />
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