''Cryobacterium psychrotolerans'' 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 ...

aerobic Aerobic means "requiring air," in which "air" usually means oxygen. Aerobic may also refer to * Aerobic exercise, prolonged exercise of moderate intensity * Aerobics, a form of aerobic exercise * Aerobic respiration, the aerobic process of cell ...

and

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 have an optimal growth temperature at . They are found in ...

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 frozen soil from a glacier from the

Xinjiang Uygur 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 2007 {{Actinobacteria-stub