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Streptomyces erringtonii sp. nov. and Streptomyces kaempferi sp. nov., isolated from a hay meadow soil

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Two filamentous actinomycetes isolated from a hay meadow soil were provisionally assigned to the genus Streptomyces based on morphological features. The isolates were found to have chemical and morphological properties typical of the genus Streptomyces and formed distinct phyletic lines in the 16S rRNA gene tree. Isolate I36T was most closely related to Streptomyces glauciniger NBRC 100913T and isolate I37T to Streptomyces mirabilis NBRC 13450T. Low DNA:DNA relatedness values were recorded between each of the isolates and their closest phylogenetic neighbour. The isolates were also distinguished from their nearest phylogenetic neighbour, and from one another, using a combination of phenotypic properties. These data indicate that the isolates should be recognised as new species in the genus Streptomyces. The names proposed for these new taxa are Streptomyces erringtonii sp. nov. and Streptomyces kaempferi sp. nov. with isolate I36T (=CGMCC 4.7016T = KACC 15424T) and isolate I37T (=CGMCC 4.7020T = KACC 15428T) as the respective type strains.

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Acknowledgments

We are indebted to Dr. Hang-Yeon Weon (Korea Agricultural Culture Collection, Suwon, Korea) for the fatty acid data and to Professor Jean Euzéby (Ecolé Nationale Veterinaire, Toulouse, France) for help in naming the strains. This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (grant 31100003).

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    Rakesh Santhanam & Michael Goodfellow

  2. State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, People’s Republic of China

    Xiaoying Rong & Ying Huang

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The GenBank accession numbers for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of Streptomyces erringtonii I36T and Streptomyces kaempferi I37T are HE573871 and HE591382, respectively.

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Santhanam, R., Rong, X., Huang, Y. et al. Streptomyces erringtonii sp. nov. and Streptomyces kaempferi sp. nov., isolated from a hay meadow soil. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 103, 79–87 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-012-9788-x

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