Three new Methylobacterium species (M. zatmanii, M. rhodesianum, and M. fujisawaense) are proposed on the basis of deoxyribonucleic acid-deoxyribonucleic acid homology. Strains are assigned to these and other species of Methylobacterium on the basis of both the homology data and previously published phenotypic data.
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Green et al. (1988) studied this question.