Microbacterium phage Whippersnapper
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| Detailed Information for Phage Whippersnapper | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Microbacterium paraoxydans NWU1 |
| Found By | Rachel Smith |
| Year Found | 2024 |
| Location Found | Lincoln, NE Lancaster |
| Finding Institution | Nebraska Wesleyan University |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | No |
| Isolation Temperature | Not entered |
| GPS Coordinates | 40.79036 N, 96.749 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | I had to adopt an enrichment broth from a fellow student in my class to have a positive spot test. |
| Naming Notes | My phage has been difficult and stubborn throughout the process of discovery, this little phage is a whippersnapper when it comes to cooperation with the scientist. |
| 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 | During plating the bacteriophage would clear an entire plate and as the concentration of the virus decreased the plates would have round spots where the bacteriophage had "eaten" the bacteria. These spots varied in diameter. |
| 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 |