Mycobacterium phage Aurora
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| Detailed Information for Phage Aurora | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 |
| Found By | Rachel Butts |
| Year Found | 2010 |
| Location Found | Holland, MI USA |
| Finding Institution | Hope College |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | No |
| Isolation Temperature | 37°C |
| GPS Coordinates | 42.7879 N, 86.10235 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | Moist soil with partially degraded woodchips, 5 cm below surface, collected at 76 degrees Fahrenheit. Discovered in a suburban area about 1 ft from a sidewalk, 2 ft from a large bush, and 50 ft from a dormitory on campus. |
| Sequencing Information | |
| Sequencing Complete? | No |
| Genome length (bp) | Unknown |
| Character of genome ends | Unknown |
| Fasta file available? | No |
| Characterization | |
| Cluster | Unclustered |
| Subcluster | -- |
| Annotating Institution | Unknown or unassigned |
| Annotation Status | Not sequenced |
| Plaque Notes | After 48 hours at 37 degrees Celsius, Aurora formed plaques of two distinct morphologies. One of which was described as the “comet” morphology, and was the more dominant shape. This comet shape consisted of a small, clear circle surrounded by a larger, turbid oval, in which the clear center was offset to one side of the oval. This gave the appearance of a comet, where the clear circular area was the head and the opposite end, the tail. The size of these plaques was generally 3.53 mm in diameter. The less dominant shape was simply a smaller, clear circle, with no traces of turbidity near the edges. However before these two morphologies developed, after 24 hours all of the plaques on the plate were all extremely small, turbid circles and none had the distinct comet shape. At that time, they had an average plaque size of 0.64 mm in diameter. |
| Has been Phamerated? | No |
| Publication Info | |
| Uploaded to GenBank? | No |
| GenBank Accession | None yet |
| Refseq Number | None yet |
| Archiving Info | |
| Archiving status | Archived |
| SEA Designator | 2010HOPEauroraRMB |
| Pitt Freezer Box# | 14 |
| Pitt Freezer Box Grid# | 33 |
| Available Files | |
| Plaque Picture | Download |
| Restriction Digest Picture | Download |
| EM Picture | Download |
