@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.038463-0, author = "Santhanam, Rakesh and Okoro, Chinyere K. and Rong, Xiaoying and Huang, Ying and Bull, Alan T. and Weon, Hang-Yeon and Andrews, Barbara A. and Asenjo, Juan A. and Goodfellow, Michael", title = "Streptomyces atacamensis sp. nov., isolated from an extreme hyper-arid soil of the Atacama Desert, Chile", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "2012", volume = "62", number = "Pt_11", pages = "2680-2684", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.038463-0", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.038463-0", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "The taxonomic position of a Streptomyces strain isolated from an extreme hyper-arid soil sample collected from the Atacama Desert was determined using a polyphasic approach. The strain, isolate C60T, had chemical and morphological features typical of members of the genus Streptomyces and formed a distinct phyletic line in the Streptomyces 16S rRNA gene tree, together with the type strain of Streptomyces radiopugnans . The two strains were distinguished readily using a combination of phenotypic properties and by a DNA–DNA relatedness value of 23.17 (±0.95) %. On the basis of these genotypic and phenotypic data, it is proposed that isolate C60T ( = CGMCC 4.7018T = KACC 15492T) be classified in the genus Streptomyces as Streptomyces atacamensis sp. nov.", }