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        <authority>Ivanova et al. 2004 emend. Jean et al. 2006</authority>
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        <authority>Cramer et al. 2011</authority>
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        <authority>None 2015</authority>
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        <authority>Ivanova and Mikhailov 2001 emend. Ivanova et al. 2004</authority>
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      <citation citation-type="journal">
        <authors>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Hosoya</surname>
            <given-names>S.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Suzuki</surname>
            <given-names>S.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Adachi</surname>
            <given-names>K.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Matsuda</surname>
            <given-names>S.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Kasai</surname>
            <given-names>H.</given-names>
          </person-name>
        </authors>
        <article-title>Paramoritella alkaliphila gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Moritellaceae isolated in the Republic of Palau.</article-title>
        <year>2009</year>
        <volume>59</volume>
        <issue>2</issue>
        <fpage>411</fpage>
        <lpage>416</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/ijs.0.65809-0</pub-id>
        <pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">19196787</pub-id>
      </citation>
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      <citation citation-type="journal">
        <authors>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Ivanova</surname>
            <given-names>E.P.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Flavier</surname>
            <given-names>S.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Christen</surname>
            <given-names>R.</given-names>
          </person-name>
        </authors>
        <article-title>Phylogenetic relationships among marine Alteromonas-like proteobacteria: emended description of the family Alteromonadaceae and proposal of Pseudoalteromonadaceae fam. nov., Colwelliaceae fam. nov., Shewanellaceae fam. nov., Moritellaceae fam. nov., Ferrimonadaceae fam. nov., Idiomarinaceae fam. nov. and Psychromonadaceae fam. nov.</article-title>
        <year>2004</year>
        <volume>54</volume>
        <issue>5</issue>
        <fpage>1773</fpage>
        <lpage>1788</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/ijs.0.02997-0</pub-id>
        <pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">15388743</pub-id>
      </citation>
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