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Thermophilic Micro-organism of Uncertain Taxonomic Status from he Hot Springs of Tiberias(Israel)

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IN the course of a survey of the fauna and flora of the hot springs of Tiberias1, which attain a temperature of 60° C., a bacterium was isolated which shows a special mode of reproduction and apparently has not yet been described.

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KAHAN, D. Thermophilic Micro-organism of Uncertain Taxonomic Status from he Hot Springs of Tiberias(Israel). Nature 192, 1212–1213 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/1921212a0

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