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Microbiology vol.
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Supplementary Figs S1 and S2. Phylogenetic relationships
of strains NRIC 0696 and NRIC 0697
T(
Lactobacillus equigenerosi sp. nov.) to related species
based on 16S rRNA gene sequences, based on the
maximum-likelihood method (Fig. S1) and the maximum-parsimony
method (Fig. S2).
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