Response to: "Comments on: "A polyphasic approach leading to the revision of the genus Planktothrix (Cyanobacteria) and its type species, P. agardhii, and proposal for integrating the emended valid botanical taxa, as well as three new species, Planktothrix paucivesiculata sp. nov.(ICNP), Planktothrix tepida sp. nov.(ICNP), and Planktothrix serta sp. nov.(ICNP), as genus and species names with nomenclature standing under the ICNP," by V. Gaget, M. Welker, R. Rippka, and N. Tandeau de Marsac, Syst. Appl. Microbiol. (2015), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2015.02.004", by A. Oren [Syst. Appl. Microbiol. (2015), doi:10.1016/j.syapm.2015.03.002]
1 Institut Pasteur, Unité des Cyanobactéries, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Unité de Recherche Associée (URA) 2172, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France; Centre d'Analyse Environnementales, Bât. Dufy, 1 place de Turenne, 94417 Saint-Maurice Cedex, France. Electronic address: virginie.gaget@adelaide.edu.au.
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3 Institut Pasteur, Unité des Cyanobactéries, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Unité de Recherche Associée (URA) 2172, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France.