Description and genome analysis of a novel archaeon isolated from a syntrophic pyrite-forming enrichment culture and reclassification of Methanospirillum hungatei strains GP1 and SK as Methanospirillum purgamenti sp. nov.

• Nathalie Pradel,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CNRS/INSU, IRD, MIO, UM 110, Aix-Marseille Université, Université du Sud Toulon-Var, Marseille, France

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• Manon Bartoli,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation CNRS/INSU, IRD, MIO, UM 110, Aix-Marseille Université, Université du Sud Toulon-Var, Marseille, France

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• Michel Koenen,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Texel, Netherlands

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• Nicole Bale,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Texel, Netherlands

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• Meina Neumann-Schaal,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Group Metabolomics, Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1641-019X

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• Cathrin Spröer,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department Bioinformatics, Leibniz Institute DSMZ–German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany

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• Boyke Bunk,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department Bioinformatics, Leibniz Institute DSMZ–German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany

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• Manfred Rohde,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Central Facility for Microscopy, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, HZI, Braunschweig, Germany

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• Michael Pester,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department Microorganisms, Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany, Institute for Microbiology, Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

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• Stefan Spring

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: stefan.spring@dsmz.de

  Affiliation Department Microorganisms, Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6247-0938

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