''Flavitalea gansuensis'' is a

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 ''

Flavitalea ''Flavitalea'' is a genus of bacteria from the family of Chitinophagaceae Chitinophagaceae is an aerobic or facultatively anaerobic and rod-shaped family of bacteria in the phylum Bacteroidota. Genera * '' Agriterribacter'' Lee and Whang 20 ...

'' which has been isolated from the soil of an arid area in the

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China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

References

External links

Type strain of ''Flavitalea gansuensis'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Chitinophagia Bacteria described in 2013 {{Bacteroidota-stub