Mycobacterium phage Bloop
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| Detailed Information for Phage Bloop | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 |
| Found By | Ella Temple and Gabi Prusinski |
| Year Found | 2025 |
| Location Found | Boulder, CO United States |
| Finding Institution | University of Colorado Boulder |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | Yes |
| Isolation Temperature | 27°C |
| GPS Coordinates | 40.00285 N, 105.26799 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | An overgrown area outside of the CU Rec Center. There were weeds growing after it rained. We found it at September 4th, at 10:29am. |
| Naming Notes | Our original was going to be Hiccup but it got taken so we changed it to Bloop. We named it this because we had some hiccups and bloop is similar. |
| 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 | We have a temperate phage going through the lytic cycle as the halo is around the plaque and there is a clear center. We have consistently two different sized plaques but only one species. Plaque sizes ranged from <1mm to 4mm. |
| 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 | 1.63x10^9 pfu/mL |
| Available Files | |
| Plaque Picture | Download |
| Restriction Digest Picture | Download |
| EM Picture | Download |
