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        <authority>None 2015</authority>
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          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.4318" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.4318" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.4318">Desulfitobacterium dehalogenans</identifier>
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                <surname>Utkin</surname>
                <given-names>I.</given-names>
              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Woese</surname>
                <given-names>C.</given-names>
              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Wiegel</surname>
                <given-names>J.</given-names>
              </person-name>
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            <article-title>Isolation and characterization of Desulfitobacterium dehalogenans gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic bacterium which reductively dechlorinates chlorophenolic compounds.</article-title>
            <year>1994</year>
            <volume>44</volume>
            <issue>4</issue>
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            <lpage>619</lpage>
            <source id="116">International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology</source>
            <abbrev>Int J Syst Bacteriol</abbrev>
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                <surname>Liolios</surname>
                <given-names>K.</given-names>
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              <person-name>
                <surname>Chen</surname>
                <given-names>I.M.</given-names>
              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Mavromatis</surname>
                <given-names>K.</given-names>
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              <person-name>
                <surname>Tavernarakis</surname>
                <given-names>N.</given-names>
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              <person-name>
                <surname>Hugenholtz</surname>
                <given-names>P.</given-names>
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              <person-name>
                <surname>Markowitz</surname>
                <given-names>V.M.</given-names>
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              <person-name>
                <surname>Kyrpides</surname>
                <given-names>N.C.</given-names>
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            <article-title>The Genomes On Line Database (GOLD) in 2009: status of genomic and metagenomic projects and their associated metadata</article-title>
            <year>2010</year>
            <volume>38</volume>
            <fpage>D346</fpage>
            <lpage>354</lpage>
            <source id="1178">Nucleic Acids Research</source>
            <abbrev>Nucleic Acids Res.</abbrev>
            <issn>0305-1048</issn>
            <essn>1362-4962</essn>
            <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1093/nar/gkp848</pub-id>
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        <year>1994</year>
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