Publications

diversity of culturable actinomycetes in hyper-arid soils of the atacama desert, chile.	the atacama desert presents one of the most extreme environments on earth and we report here the first extensive isolations of actinomycetes from soils at various locations within the desert. the use of selective isolation procedures enabled actinomycetes to be recovered from arid, hyper-arid and even extreme hyper-arid environments in significant numbers and diversity. in some cases actinomycetes were the only culturable bacteria to be isolated under the conditions of this study. phylogenetic a ...	2009	19052913
lechevalieria atacamensis sp. nov., lechevalieria deserti sp. nov. and lechevalieria roselyniae sp. nov., isolated from hyperarid soils.	the taxonomic positions of three lechevalieria-like strains isolated from hyperarid soils of the atacama desert, chile, were established by using a polyphasic approach. the organisms had chemical and morphological properties consistent with their classification in the genus lechevalieria. they formed a distinct subclade in the lechevalieria 16s rrna gene clade and were most closely related to the type strain of lechevalieria xinjiangensis. dna-dna relatedness data showed that each of the isolate ...	2010	19651742