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          <person-name>
            <surname>Takai</surname>
            <given-names>K.</given-names>
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            <surname>Sugai</surname>
            <given-names>A.</given-names>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Itoh</surname>
            <given-names>T.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Horikoshi</surname>
            <given-names>K.</given-names>
          </person-name>
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        <article-title>Palaeococcus ferrophilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a barophilic, hyperthermophilic archaeon from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney.</article-title>
        <year>2000</year>
        <volume>50</volume>
        <issue>2</issue>
        <fpage>489</fpage>
        <lpage>500</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">10.1099/00207713-50-2-489</pub-id>
        <pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">10758851</pub-id>
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            <surname>Zillig</surname>
            <given-names>W.</given-names>
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            <surname>Holz</surname>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Klenk</surname>
            <given-names>H.P.</given-names>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Trent</surname>
            <given-names>J.</given-names>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Wunderl</surname>
            <given-names>S.</given-names>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>Janekovic</surname>
            <given-names>D.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Insel</surname>
            <given-names>E.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Haas</surname>
            <given-names>B.</given-names>
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        <article-title>Pyrococcus woesei, sp. nov., an ultra-thermophilic marine archaebacterium, representing a novel order, Thermococcales.</article-title>
        <year>1987</year>
        <volume>9</volume>
        <issue>1-2</issue>
        <fpage>62</fpage>
        <lpage>70</lpage>
        <source id="121">Systematic and Applied Microbiology</source>
        <abbrev>Syst Appl Microbiol</abbrev>
        <issn>0723-2020</issn>
        <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0723-2020(87)80057-7</pub-id>
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