RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Asem, Mipeshwaree Devi A1 Salam, Nimaichand A1 Idris, Hamidah A1 Zhang, Xiao-Tong A1 Bull, Alan T. A1 Li, Wen-Jun A1 Goodfellow, MichaelYR 2020 T1 Nocardiopsis deserti sp. nov., isolated from a high altitude Atacama Desert soil JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 70 IS 5 SP 3210 OP 3218 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004158 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB The taxonomic status of a Nocardiopsis strain, designated H13T, 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 Nocardiopsis and formed a well-supported clade in the Nocardiopsis phylogenomic tree together with the type strains of Nocardiopsis alborubida , Nocardiopsis dassonvillei and Nocardiopsis synnematoformans. Strain H13T was distinguished from its closest relatives by low average nucleotide identity (93.2–94.9 %) and in silico 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 Nocardiopsis as Nocardiopsis deserti sp. nov. with isolate H13T (=CGMCC 4.7585T=KCTC 49249T) as the type strain., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.004158