Arthrobacter phage BasketStar
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| Detailed Information for Phage BasketStar | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Arthrobacter globiformis B-2979 |
| Found By | Barna Ghafari, Michael Plesca, Violet Strozykowski |
| Year Found | 2025 |
| Location Found | Cumberland, MD United States |
| Finding Institution | Allegany College of Maryland |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | Yes |
| Isolation Temperature | 30°C |
| GPS Coordinates | 39.650111 N, 78.729 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | BasketStar was isolated from a dry soil sample found on the ACM Campus. BasketStar also amplified very well, creating high-titer lysates.TEM images of BasketStar and BasketStar V.2 showed the head to be 57 nm wide and the tail 161 nm long. |
| Naming Notes | Barna Ghafari named the phage Basketstar |
| 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 | BasketStar's plaque morphology was found to be small round plaques about 1-2 mm in diameter with smooth edges and very 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 | Not in Pitt Archives |
| SEA Lysate Titer | 1.7 x 10^11 pfu/mL |
| Available Files | |
| Plaque Picture | Download |
| Restriction Digest Picture | Download |
| EM Picture | Download |
