%0 Journal Article %A Zhang, De-Chao %A Redzic, Mersiha %A Schinner, Franz %A Margesin, Rosa %T Glaciimonas immobilis gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Oxalobacteraceae isolated from alpine glacier cryoconite %D 2011 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 61 %N 9 %P 2186-2190 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.028001-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X Strains Cr9-30T and Cr9-12 were isolated from alpine glacier cryoconite. Both strains were Gram-negative-staining, non-motile, rod-shaped and psychrophilic, showing good growth over the temperature range 1–20 °C. Phylogenetic analysis of 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that the two strains formed a distinct branch within the family Oxalobacteraceae and were most closely related to members of the genus Collimonas. The 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity between strains Cr9-30T and Cr9-12 was 99.0 %. The two strains showed highest 16S rRNA gene sequence pairwise similarity with Collimonas pratensis LMG 23965T (96.6 and 96.1 % for strains Cr9-30T and Cr9-12, respectively), Collimonas arenae LMG 23964T (96.5 and 96.3 %, respectively) and Collimonas fungivorans LMG 21973T (96.4 and 96.2 %, respectively). The predominant cellular fatty acids were summed feature 3 (C16 : 1ω7c and/or iso-C15 : 0 2-OH), C16 : 0 and C18 : 1ω7c. The DNA G+C content of strain Cr9-30T was 51.0 mol%. On the basis of phenotypic characteristics and phylogenetic analysis, strains Cr9-30T and Cr9-12 represent a novel species in a new genus of the family Oxalobacteraceae, for which the name Glaciimonas immobilis gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of Glaciimonas immobilis is Cr9-30T ( = DSM 23240T = LMG 25547T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.028001-0