Pigment or Compound Name:	Rhodopseudomonas palustris (in vivo, Schwieterman et al. 2015)
Type:	biological pigment
Medium Type:	whole cell
Description:	Transmittance spectrum (whole cells) of Rhodopseudomonas palustris
	
x-axis label:	wavelength
x-axis units:	nm
y-axis label:	transmittance
y-axis units:	fraction
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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:	Transmittance spectra of  of Rhodopseudomonas palustris (DSMZ (https://dsmz.de/) strain ID #8283). Culturing and washing as described in Schwieterman et al. 2015.
                Cultured photoheterotrophically in oxic liquid culture media. Spectrophotometric measurements made with Varian Cary 1E UV-Visible Spectrophotometer.
                Visual color red-pink. Absorbance peaks at 800 and 870 nm due to bacteriochlorophyll a.		

Keywords:	Rhodopseudomonas palustris, purple non-sulfur bacteria, anoxygenic phototroph, anaerobic photoautotroph, anaerobic photoheterotroph, aerobic chemoautotroph, aerobic chemoheterotroph, neurosporene, bacteriochlorophyll, Bchla, anoxygenic, photosynthesizer, anaerobe
	
Datafile name:	Rhodopseudomonas_palustris_aerobic_transm_Schwieterman_2015.csv