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sp. nov., isolated from a high altitude Atacama Desert soil Free

Abstract

The taxonomic status of a strain, designated H13, isolated from a high altitude Atacama Desert soil, was established by using a polyphasic approach. The strain was found to have chemotaxonomic, cultural and morphological characteristics consistent with its classification within the genus and formed a well-supported clade in the phylogenomic tree together with the type strains of , and . Strain H13 was distinguished from its closest relatives by low average nucleotide identity (93.2–94.9 %) and DNA–DNA hybridization (52.5–62.4 %) values calculated from draft genome assemblies and by a range of phenotypic properties. On the basis of these results, it is proposed that the isolate be assigned to the genus as sp. nov. with isolate H13 (=CGMCC 4.7585=KCTC 49249) as the type strain.

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Keyword(s): Atacama desert , genomics , Nocardiopsis deserti sp. nov and polyphasic taxonomy
Funding
This study was supported by the:
  • Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (Award 2016A030312003)
    • Principle Award Recipient: Wen-Jun Li
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (Award 31850410475)
    • Principle Award Recipient: Nimaichand Salam
© 2020 Sun Yat-Sen University, P.R. China
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Nocardiopsis deserti sp. nov., isolated from a high altitude Atacama Desert soil
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