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Streptomyces  avermitilis = Streptomyces avermectinius MA-4680T  
Section: 8 No: 5
Lineage: Actinobacteria, Actinobacteria, Actinobacteridae, Actinomycetales, Streptomycineae, Streptomycetaceae
Contributor: H. Ikeda & S. Omura

The genome analysis of this strain has been completed in the beginning of this century and allowed the first genome-level glimpse into the extensive secondary metabolic dexterity of a streptomycete. More than thirty kinds of secondary metabolite gene clusters lie in the linear chromosome.

Secondary Metabolites:
 avermectin  

References:
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015

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