Mycobacterium phage BaenaC
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| Detailed Information for Phage BaenaC | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 |
| Found By | Yunia Alvarez |
| Year Found | 2016 |
| Location Found | Blauvelt, NY USA |
| Finding Institution | Dominican University New York |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | No |
| Isolation Temperature | 23°C |
| GPS Coordinates | 41.0 N, 73.0 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | I collected my water sample on August 31, 2016 at 8:47 in the morning. It was a journey to search for the spot we were assigned. When we found the site it was revolting. It smelled like animal feces mixed with a dead animal of some sort. There were about a couple hundred maggots and flies and a few bees hovering over the puddle of death. |
| Naming Notes | For the name of my virus I chose one of my teachers from high school. He used to be my volleyball coach for the first two years and then as my high school years progressed I had to change teams to Varisty. In my junior year of high school I entered his office and found a newtons cradle on his desk. He just finished telling me he recently bought it and I found it to be super cool. Since I am a klutz I of course dropped it and broke it. So for the next two years he was always asking me where his newtons cradle was and when will I replace the one I broke. So fast forward 3 years later I have the ability to re-give him what I owed. Being a man of science and learning he found it to be awesome that I was thinking of naming it after him. Although he doesn't know the reason behind it. |
| Sequencing Information | |
| Sequencing Complete? | No |
| Genome length (bp) | Unknown |
| Character of genome ends | Unknown |
| Fasta file available? | No |
| Characterization | |
| Cluster | K |
| Subcluster | -- |
| Cluster Life Cycle | Temperate |
| Annotating Institution | Unknown or unassigned |
| Annotation Status | Not sequenced |
| Plaque Notes | My plaques were very interesting looking. They were at first round and very simple and visible. As the sequencing progressed I started receiving bulls eye plaques. Which is when you have one plaque within another, kind of like the shape of a dart board. Once we took them to the electron microscopy my professor and I noticed that my plaque looked like it was vomiting. I was later informed it was all of it's DNA that was exploding. |
| 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 | 12.6X10^8 |
| Date of SEA Lysate Titering | Oct 5, 2016 |
| Pitt Freezer Box# | 35 |
| Pitt Freezer Box Grid# | G10 |
| Available Files | |
| Plaque Picture | Download |
| EM Picture | Download |