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        <authority>Miller and Wolin 1985</authority>
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        <authors>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Kluyver</surname>
            <given-names>A.J.</given-names>
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          <person-name>
            <surname>van Niel</surname>
            <given-names>C.B.</given-names>
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        </authors>
        <article-title>Prospects for a natural system of classification of bacteria</article-title>
        <year>1936</year>
        <volume>94</volume>
        <fpage>369</fpage>
        <lpage>403</lpage>
        <source id="941">Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde, Infektionskrankheiten und Hygiene. Abteilung II</source>
        <abbrev>Zentralbl Bakteriol Parasitenkd Infektionskr Hyg</abbrev>
        <issn>0044-4057</issn>
      </citation>
    </reference>
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      <citation citation-type="journal">
        <authors>
          <person-name>
            <surname>List Editor</surname>
            <given-names />
          </person-name>
        </authors>
        <article-title>Validation List no. 85. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSEM</article-title>
        <year>2002</year>
        <volume>52</volume>
        <issue>3</issue>
        <fpage>685</fpage>
        <lpage>690</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">10.1099/00207713-52-3-685</pub-id>
        <pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">12054225</pub-id>
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    </reference>
    <reference id="rid.5308">
      <citation citation-type="journal">
        <authors>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Miller</surname>
            <given-names>T.L.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Wolin</surname>
            <given-names>M.J.</given-names>
          </person-name>
        </authors>
        <article-title>Methanosphaera stadtmaniae gen. nov., sp. nov.: a species that forms methane by reducing methanol with hydrogen.</article-title>
        <year>1985</year>
        <volume>141</volume>
        <fpage>116</fpage>
        <lpage>122</lpage>
        <source id="118">Archives of Microbiology</source>
        <abbrev>Arch Microbiol</abbrev>
        <issn>0302-8933</issn>
        <essn>1432-072X</essn>
        <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1007/BF00423270</pub-id>
        <pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">3994486</pub-id>
      </citation>
    </reference>
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    <snapshot date="2024-04-22" date-formatted="April 22, 2024" time="14:02:15" time-formatted="14:02 PM" />
    <modified curator="Charles Parker" date="2019-11-08" date-formatted="November 8, 2019" time="14:14:30" time-formatted="14:14 PM" />
    <created curator="Sarah Wigley" date="2009-05-07" date-formatted="May 7, 2009" time="16:09:23" time-formatted="16:09 PM" />
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