Pedobacter arcticus is a species of facultative
psychrophile bacteria isolated from Arctic soil. It is
gram-negative
Gram-negative bacteria are bacteria that do not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial differentiation. They are characterized by their cell envelopes, which are composed of a thin peptidoglycan cell wall ...
, short rod-shaped and
motile (by gliding), with type strain A12(T) ( = CCTCC AB 2010223(T) = NRRL B-59457(T)).
Its genome has been sequenced.
References
Further reading
*Whitman, William B., et al., eds. Bergey's manual® of systematic bacteriology. Vol. 5. Springer, 2012.
External links
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LPSNType strain of ''Pedobacter arcticus'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Sphingobacteriia
Bacteria described in 2011
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