Revised Taxonomy of the Methanotrophs: Description of Methylobacter gen. nov., Emendation of Methylococcus, Validation of Methylosinus and Methylocystis Species, and a Proposal that the Family Methylococcaceae Includes Only the Group I Methanotrophs

• John P. Bowman^1,2, Lindsay I. Sly^1,2, Peter D. Nichols^1,2 and A. C. Hayward^1,2
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  ¹ Center for Bacterial Diversity and Identification, Department of Microbiology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia ² CSIRO Marine Laboratories, Division of Oceanography, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia
• Published: 01 April 1994 https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-44-2-375