Pigment or Compound Name: Janthinobacterium lividum (in vivo, Schwieterman et al. 2015) Type: biological pigment Medium Type: whole cell Description: Reflectance spectrum of Janthinobacterium lividum x-axis label: wavelength x-axis units: nm y-axis label: reflectance y-axis units: fraction error label: error units: Source/Contact: Edward Schwieterman, University of Washington, eschwiet@uw.edu Reference: Schwieterman, E.W.; Cockell, C.S.; Meadows, V.S. 2015. Non-Photosynthetic Pigments as Biosignatures, Astrobiology, 15(5). Comments: Reflectance spectrum of pure culture of Janthinobacterium lividum (DSMZ (https://dsmz.de/) strain ID #1522). Measurements made with Ocean Optics USB2000+ UV/VIS spectrometer (grating #3) with Ocean Optics R400-7 reflectance probe. Visual color dark violet. Broad absorption across 400-700 nm due to violacein. Weak increase in reflectance over 700-800 nm. Keywords: Janthinobacterium lividum, soil bacteria, aerobic chemoorganoheterotroph, violacein, aerobe, non-photosynthetic Datafile name: Janthinobacterium_lividum_ref_Schwieterman_2015.csv