Arthrobacter phage Hotch
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| Detailed Information for Phage Hotch | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Arthrobacter globiformis B-2979 |
| Found By | Afrah Aqeel |
| Year Found | 2022 |
| Location Found | West Chicago, IL United States |
| Finding Institution | Benedictine University |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | Yes |
| Isolation Temperature | 22°C |
| GPS Coordinates | 41.908741 N, 88.194578 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | The soil was moist and clumpy because of the storm from the night before. I reached about 3-4 inches deep with a digger and took out about half a Ziploc bag of soil. The soil looked a lot like play doh. |
| Naming Notes | I got the inspiration for the name from one of my favorite tv shows. The name Hotch is from Criminal Minds. Hotch is an FBI agent. |
| 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 | Characterization of a lytic phage that infects A Globiformis. Since my phage is lytic, the plaque appears to be clear and the size of my plaque is 1.5 mm. Phage Hotch is a siphoviridae. Siphoviridae has virions that are made up of stacked disks with six subunits and feature long, noncontractile, thin tails that are bendable. |
| Morphotype | Siphoviridae |
| Has been Phamerated? | No |
| Publication Info | |
| Uploaded to GenBank? | No |
| GenBank Accession | None yet |
| Refseq Number | None yet |
| Archiving Info | |
| Archiving status | Not in Pitt Archives |