The Family Streptomycetaceae, Part I: Taxonomy BT - The Prokaryotes

Abstract

The was created by Waksman and Henrici (1943). Originally this harbored only the type genus Streptomy- ces. Zhang et al. (1997) proposed that the genus Kitasatospora be included, and recently, a third genus, Streptacidiphilus, was added (Kim et al., 2003).