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          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.9618" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.9618" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.9618">Methylothermus thermalis</identifier>
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              <person-name>
                <surname>Tsubota</surname>
                <given-names>J.</given-names>
              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Eshinimaev</surname>
                <given-names>B.T.S.</given-names>
              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Khmelenina</surname>
                <given-names>V.N.</given-names>
              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Trotsenko</surname>
                <given-names>Y.A.</given-names>
              </person-name>
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            <article-title>Methylothermus thermalis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel moderately thermophilic obligate methanotroph from a hot spring in Japan.</article-title>
            <year>2005</year>
            <volume>55</volume>
            <issue>5</issue>
            <fpage>1877</fpage>
            <lpage>1884</lpage>
            <source id="117">International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology</source>
            <abbrev>Int J Syst Evol Microbiol</abbrev>
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            <essn>1466-5034</essn>
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        <snapshot date="2024-04-22" date-formatted="April 22, 2024" time="17:49:15" time-formatted="17:49 PM" />
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        <created curator="Nicole Osier" date="2009-01-05" date-formatted="January 5, 2009" time="15:08:08" time-formatted="15:08 PM" />
        <curatorial-note>TODO (parker): Add patent reference.</curatorial-note>
        <public-note>The patent strain IPOD FERM P-19714 is cited in US 10,301,657.</public-note>
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        <article-title>Methylothermus thermalis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel moderately thermophilic obligate methanotroph from a hot spring in Japan.</article-title>
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