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

Lookup NU author(s): Hamidah Idris, Professor Alan Bull, Professor Michael Goodfellow

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Abstract

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.

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Author(s): Asem MD, Salam N, Idris H, Zhang X-T, Bull AT, Li W-J, Goodfellow M

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Year: 2020

Volume: 70

Issue: 5

Pages: 3210-3218

Online publication date: 22/04/2020

Acceptance date: 02/04/2016

ISSN (print): 1466-5026

ISSN (electronic): 1466-5034

Publisher: Microbiology Society

URL: https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004158

DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004158

PubMed id: 32320378

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