Glaciimonas immobilis

Glaciimonas immobilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Proteobacteria
Class: Betaproteobacteria
Order: Burkholderiales
Family: Oxalobacteraceae
Genus: Glaciimonas
Species: G. immobilis
Binomial name
Glaciimonas immobilis
Zhang et al. 2011[1]
Type strain
Cr9-30, DSM 23240, LMG 25547, Margesin Cr9-30[2]

Glaciimonas immobilis is a psychrophilic, nonmotile, rod-shaped, Gram-negative bacterium of the genus Glaciimonas which was isolated from alpine glacier cryoconite.[3] Phylogenetic analysis has shown it to belong to the family Oxalobacteraceae.

Etymology

Glaciimonas immobilis is composite from the Latin glacies where it was found and immobilis which means motionless.[4]

References

  1. ↑ http://old.dsmz.de/microorganisms/bacterial_nomenclature_info.php?genus=Glaciimonas&show_all_details=1
  2. ↑ http://www.straininfo.net/strains/852769
  3. ↑ "Glaciimonas immobilis gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Oxalobacteraceae isolated from alpine glacier cryoconite". Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 61: 2186–90. Sep 2011. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.028001-0. PMID 20935085.
  4. ↑ http://www.bacterio.cict.fr/g/glaciimonas.html


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