%0 Journal Article %A Saygin, Hayrettin %A Ay, Hilal %A Guven, Kiymet %A Cetin, Demet %A Sahin, Nevzat %T Micromonospora deserti sp. nov., isolated from the Karakum Desert %D 2020 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 70 %N 1 %P 282-291 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003752 %K phylogenomics %K Karakum Desert %K Micromonospora %K polyphasic taxonomy %I Microbiology Society, %X An isolate, 13K206T, with typical morphological characteristics of the genus Micromonospora was obtained during a study searching for novel actinobacteria with biosynthetic potential from the Karakum Desert. A polyphasic approach was adopted to determine taxonomic affiliation of the strain. The strain showed chemotaxonomical properties consistent with its classification in the genus Micromonospora such as meso- and 3-OH-A2pm in the cell-wall peptidoglycan, xylose in whole-cell hydrolysate and diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidylinositol as major polar lipids. The results of phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that the strain was closely related to ‘ Micromonospora spongicola ’ S3-1T, Micromonospora nigra DSM 43818T and Micromonospora yasonensis DS3186T with sequence similarities of 98.6, 98.5 and 98.4 %, respectively. Digital DNA–DNA hybridization and average nucleotide identity analyses in addition to gyrB gene analysis confirmed the assignment of the strain to a novel species within the genus Micromonospora for which the name Micromonospora deserti sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is 13K206T (=JCM 32583T=DSM 107532T). The DNA G+C content of the type strain is 72.4 mol%. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.003752