''Mucilaginibacter psychrotolerans'' is a

psychrotolerant Psychrophiles or cryophiles (adj. ''psychrophilic'' or ''cryophilic'') are extremophilic organisms that are capable of growth and reproduction in low temperatures, ranging from to . They are found in places that are permanently cold, such as the ...

Gram-negative Gram-negative bacteria are bacteria that, unlike gram-positive bacteria, do not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial differentiation. Their defining characteristic is that their cell envelope consists ...

and

rod-shaped Bacterial cellular morphologies are the shapes that are characteristic of various types of bacteria and often key to their identification. Their direct examination under a light microscope enables the classification of these bacteria (and archae ...

bacterium from the genus of ''

Mucilaginibacter ''Mucilaginibacter'' is a genus from the family of Sphingobacteriaceae ''Sphingobacteriaceae'' is a family of environmental bacteria. Phylogeny The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomencl ...

'' which has been isolated from the Riganqiao peatlands from the

Tibetan Plateau The Tibetan Plateau, also known as the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau or Qingzang Plateau, is a vast elevated plateau located at the intersection of Central Asia, Central, South Asia, South, and East Asia. Geographically, it is located to the north of H ...

References

External links

Type strain of ''Mucilaginibacter psychrotolerans'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Sphingobacteriia Bacteria described in 2017 {{Sphingobacteriia-stub