Prescott's Microbiology
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Author: WILLEY, Sandman, Wood
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The α-Proteobacteria or Alphaproteobacteria is the most abundant bacteria when compared with all the microbes consisting of twenty families with seven orders. One of the order Rhizobiales includes species of Methylocystis (which is a methanotroph).
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