Mycobacterium phage Vega
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| Detailed Information for Phage Vega | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 |
| Found By | Cameron Crocker & Collin Ross |
| Year Found | 2014 |
| Location Found | Olympia, WA USA |
| Finding Institution | The Evergreen State College |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | Unknown |
| Isolation Temperature | Not entered |
| GPS Coordinates | 47.023056 N, 122.852778 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | This phage was adopted from another group do to several failed attempts to isolate a phage from a soil sample originally retrieved by my partner and I. |
| Naming Notes | Vega is the fifth brightest star viewed from Earth and is much larger than the sun. It is the brightest star in the constellation Lyra and is bluish-white in color because of it's extreme temperature. Vega is considered to be a "variable star", due to it's fluctuation in brightness and since this micobacteriophage has a variable plaque size, the name seemed to fit quite well. |
| 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 | This phage produces a plaque that varies in size. Several isolation plates were created but these varied sizes were consistent each time. Plaque sizes vary from approximately 2.0mm to under 0.5mm in diameter. An interesting characteristic observed with this phage, was that as the concentration increased, the plaques became more homogenous and decreased in size. |
| Has been Phamerated? | No |
| Publication Info | |
| Uploaded to GenBank? | No |
| GenBank Accession | None yet |
| Refseq Number | None yet |
| Archiving Info | |
| Archiving status | Archived |
| Pitt Freezer Box# | 15 |
| Pitt Freezer Box Grid# | F11 |
| Available Files | |
| EM Picture | Download |