Turkish Journal of Biology
Abstract
Forty-five thermophilic streptomycetes were isolated from different habitats and examined for 163 unit characters with 8 representative thermophilic type strains, 29 reference strains and 16 randomly selected duplicated organisms for many phenotypic properties. The data were evaluated using the simple matching coefficients (S_{SM}), and clustering achieved using the complete algorithm. It was clearly seen that the high cophenetic correlation, low test error values and high similarity level agreed with the defined numerical taxonomic criteria. The test strains were assigned to four aggregate groups consisting seven major (5-8 strains), nine minor (2-4 strains) and ten single membered clusters. It can be concluded that the numerical taxonomic studies yielded valuable information on the biodiversity of biotechnologically significant thermophilic streptomycetes from natural habitats.
DOI
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Keywords
Streptomyces, Numerical Taxonomy
First Page
13
Last Page
24
Recommended Citation
ŞAHİN, NEVZAT; ÖZTÜRK, ERMAN; IŞIK, KAMİL; KARİPTAŞ, ERGİN; and ÖZKANCA, REŞİT (2002) "Selective Isolation and Numerical Classification of Novel Thermophilic Streptomycetes," Turkish Journal of Biology: Vol. 26: No. 1, Article 3. Available at: https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/biology/vol26/iss1/3
