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Taxonomic Note: A Rule about the Deposition of Type Strains

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5C1

ABSTRACT

A rule is proposed to replace Recommendation 30a in the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria; this rule makes mandatory the deposition of the type strains of cultivable bacterial species and subspecies in a permanent culture collection so that they are available for study.