''Cryobacterium luteum'' is a

Gram-positive In bacteriology, gram-positive bacteria are bacteria that give a positive result in the Gram stain test, which is traditionally used to quickly classify bacteria into two broad categories according to their type of cell wall. Gram-positive bac ...

and rod-shaped bacterium from the genus ''

Cryobacterium ''Cryobacterium'' is a Gram-positive and strictly aerobic bacterial genus from the family of Microbacteriaceae Microbacteriaceae is a family of bacteria of the order Actinomycetales. They are Gram-positive soil organisms. Genera The family ' ...

'' which has been isolated from glacier ice from a glacier from the

Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang (, ), officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest ...

in China.

References

Microbacteriaceae Bacteria described in 2012 {{Actinobacteria-stub