Table 1.
Summary of the Chromobacterium species and selected strains with genome sequences available.
| Species/strain with published genomea | Isolation source | Biological interaction | Colony color | Reference of genome sequencing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C. violaceum/strains ATCC 12472 and CV017 (derived from ATCC 31532) | Soil and water worldwide; human infections | Human and animal pathogen | Violet | Vasconcelos et al., 2003; Wang et al., 2016 |
| C. subtsugae/strains PRAA4-1; MWU12-2387; MWU3525; MWU2576; and MWU2920 | Forest soil and rhizosphere in United States | Toxic to insect larvae | Violet | Vöing et al., 2015b, 2017; Blackburn et al., 2016 |
| C. aquaticum/strain CC-SEYA-1 | Spring water in Taiwan | Non-described | Tan | Soby, 2017a |
| C. haemolyticum/strain T124 | Sputum from a patient in United States; bacteremia in Japan | Human pathogen | Gray | Miki and Okada, 2014 |
| C. piscinae/strain ND17 | Pond water in Malaysia | Non-described | Violet | Chan and Yunos, 2016 |
| C. pseudoviolaceum/strain LMG 3953T | Unclear | Non-described | Violet | Soby, 2017b |
| C. vaccinii/strains MWU205 and MWU328 | Soil and rhizosphere in United States | Toxic to insect larvae | Violet | Vöing et al., 2015a |
| C. amazonense | River water in Brazil | Non-described | Violet | – |
| C. alkanivorans | Contaminated soil in India | Degradation of halogenated alkanes | Tan | – |
| C. rhizoryzae | Rhizosphere in China | Inhibition of fungal pathogens | Tan | – |
| Chromobacterium sp./strain C-61 | Rhizosphere in Korea | Inhibition of fungal pathogens | Kim et al., 2011 | |
aAll 10 proposed Chromobacterium species are shown. In respect to genome sequence availability, we listed only the Chromobacterium strains whose genome sequence were published. A more comprehensive list of Chromobacterium genomes publicly available can be found in the NCBI GenBank database (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/?term=chromobacterium).