%0 Journal Article %A Santhanam, Rakesh %A Okoro, Chinyere K. %A Rong, Xiaoying %A Huang, Ying %A Bull, Alan T. %A Weon, Hang-Yeon %A Andrews, Barbara A. %A Asenjo, Juan A. %A Goodfellow, Michael %T Streptomyces atacamensis sp. nov., isolated from an extreme hyper-arid soil of the Atacama Desert, Chile %D 2012 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 62 %N Pt_11 %P 2680-2684 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.038463-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X 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. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.038463-0