RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Blackburn, Michael B. A1 Farrar Jr., Robert R. A1 Sparks, Michael E. A1 Kuhar, Daniel A1 Mitchell, Ashaki A1 Gundersen-Rindal, Dawn E.YR 2017 T1 Chromobacterium sphagni sp. nov., an insecticidal bacterium isolated from Sphagnum bogs JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 67 IS 9 SP 3417 OP 3422 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002127 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB Sixteen isolates of Gram-reaction-negative, motile, violet-pigmented bacteria were isolated from Sphagnum bogs in West Virginia and Maine, USA. 16S rRNA gene sequences and fatty acid analysis revealed a high degree of relatedness among the isolates, and genome sequencing of two isolates, IIBBL 14B-1T and IIBBL 37-2 (from West Virginia and Maine, respectively), revealed highly similar genomic sequences. The average nucleotide identity (gANI) calculated for these two isolates was found to be in excess of 99 %, but did not exceed 88 % when comparing either isolate with genomic sequences of Chromobacterium violaceum ATCC 12472T, C. haemolyticum DSM 19808T, C. piscinae ND17, C. subtsugae PRAA4-1T, C. vaccinii MWU205T or C. amazonense CBMAI 310T. Collectively, gANI and 16S rRNA gene sequence comparisons suggested that isolates IIBBL 14B-1T and IIBBL 37-2 were most closely related to C. subtsugae , but represented a distinct species. We propose the name Chromobacterium sphagni sp. nov. for this taxon; the type strain is IIBBL 14B-1T (=NRRL B-67130T=JCM 31882T)., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002127