title: Reply to the Letter to the Editor by Paul O. Sheridan, Sylvia H. Duncan, Alan W. Walker, Karen P. Scott, Petra Louis and Harry J. Flint, referring to our paper 'Reclassification of Eubacterium rectale (Prévot et al. 1967) in a new genus Agathobacter gen. nov., as Agathobacter rectalis comb. nov., within the family Lachnospiraceae, and description of Agathobacter ruminis sp. nov., from the rumen', Int J Syst Evol Microbiol, DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.000788.
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authors.affiliation: Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, The Czech Academy of Sciences, v.v.i.,Vídenská 1083, Prague 4 - Krc 142 20,Czech Republic.
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