Species ***Streptomyces* *sparsogenes***

Name: Streptomyces sparsogenes Owen et al. 1963 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: spar.so.ge.nes. L. masc. perf. part. sparsus, scattered; Gr. suff. -genes, producing; from Gr. ind. v. gennaô, to produce; N.L. part. adj. sparsogenes, scattered producing, probably referring to the sparse formation of aerial mycelium

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 25498; BCRC 12085; CBS 672.69; CBS 958.69; CCRC 12085; DSM 40356; IFO 13086; JCM 4517; LMG 5985; NBRC 13086; NCIB 9449; NCIMB 9449; NRRL 2940; NRRL ISP-5356; RIA 1278; VKM Ac-1744

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16S rRNA gene: AJ391817 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Owen SP, Dietz A, Camiener GW. Sparsomycin, a new antitumor antibiotic. I. Discovery and biological properties. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 1963; 1962:772-779.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Emendations:
- Goodfellow et al. 2007 Goodfellow M, Kumar Y, Labeda DP, Sembiring L. The Streptomyces violaceusniger clade: a home for Streptomycetes with rugose ornamented spores. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2007; 92:173-199. Euzeby JP. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 7. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:5.

Notes:
- 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
- 🎓 Name mentioned 12 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
- 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Nouioui et al. (2018). Publication: Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007.

Parent taxon: Streptomyces Waksman and Henrici 1943 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Owen SP, Dietz A, Camiener GW. Sparsomycin, a new antitumor antibiotic. I. Discovery and biological properties. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 1963; 1962:772-779.

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Species Streptomyces sparsogenes

Species ***Streptomyces* *sparsogenes***