Mycobacterium phage Loki
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| Detailed Information for Phage Loki | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 |
| Found By | Lauren Wakefield |
| Year Found | 2012 |
| Location Found | Carbon Hill, AL USA |
| Finding Institution | University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | Yes |
| Isolation Temperature | Not entered |
| GPS Coordinates | 33.885278 N, 87.451111 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | Sample was collected near a cemetery and the woods approximately 5 inches deep. The soil was red color and damp. |
| Naming Notes | The name "Loki" came from a demi god that was known as a shape shifter. This went along with the morphology changing as the smegmatis lots. |
| Sequencing Information | |
| Sequencing Complete? | No |
| Sequencing Facility | Virginia Commonwealth University Nucleic Acids Research Facilities |
| Shotgun Sequencing Method | 454 Pyrosequencing |
| 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 | Plaques are 2mm and very clear. When changing smegmatis lots the morphology changed to a smaller plaque. When changing smegmatis lots again the plaques changed back to the 2mm clear plaques. |
| Morphotype | Siphoviridae |
| Has been Phamerated? | No |
| Publication Info | |
| Uploaded to GenBank? | No |
| GenBank Accession | None yet |
| Refseq Number | None yet |
| Archiving Info | |
| Archiving status | Archived |
| SEA Lysate Titer | 1.07x10^10 |
| Pitt Freezer Box# | 39 |
| Pitt Freezer Box Grid# | 3 |