Gordonia phage BabaYaga
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| Detailed Information for Phage BabaYaga | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Gordonia rubripertincta NRRL B-16540 |
| Found By | Jon Mitchell |
| Year Found | 2019 |
| Location Found | Aberdeen, SD United States |
| Finding Institution | Northern State University |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | Yes |
| Isolation Temperature | 22°C |
| GPS Coordinates | 45.712853 N, 98.275606 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | Environmental sample was taken from the wooded forest floor following a rain including several Ascomycete and Basidiomycete species attached to decaying/putrid branches/down trees. Luscious moss, sloppy soil, plant species, invertebrates, snails, bugs, rotten detritus. Very fertile soil sample in shade, small lighting between tree canopy. Birch, pine oak, maple, and ponderosa and white pine trees (needles and fallen/rotting leaves). Sample was harvested in September, 21 ~1:45 pm. Sample smells foul, actually beyond foul...very "juicy", "oozy" and "slimy". Quite dark. Failed to centrifuge distinctly and filtering with 0.22 micron slow and painful (use many filters and vaccuum to recover ~10 microliters of sample. |
| Naming Notes | Naming this virus reminded me of a character in a fairy tale class. Baba Yaga is part of Slavic folklore. It's a supernatural being that is represented as a nasty old witch woman. She flies around the woods in a mortar and uses a pestle as a "wand" dwells deep in the forest. She's portrayed in Grimm's fairy tales and sometimes helps folks and often hinders them - very repulsive and nasty. |
| 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 | Lytic and round on Gordonia. 1-2 mm in diameter. Sometimes tiny. Sometime opaque also. |
| 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 |