Mycobacterium phage Chonk
Add or modify phage thumbnail images to appear at the top of this page.
Know something about this phage that we don't? Modify its data.
| Detailed Information for Phage Chonk | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 |
| Found By | Ruben Noah Salazar |
| Year Found | 2019 |
| Location Found | HARRISONBURG, VA United States |
| Finding Institution | James Madison University |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | No |
| Isolation Temperature | Not entered |
| GPS Coordinates | 38.43348 N, 78.86042 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | Phage was discovered in the left flowerbed outside of the carrier drive entrance to the bioscience building. Soil was collected approximately 3 inches under the top of the flowerbed. |
| Naming Notes | Chonkers are large, chubby, and rotund creatures. Since this phage was producing large plaques, I decided this name suited it. |
| 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 | "Chonk" consistently produced hazy looking plaques. The edges of each one of the plaques would be slightly fuzzy, and the inside of the plaque almost to appeared to have not lysed completely. |
| Has been Phamerated? | No |
| Publication Info | |
| Uploaded to GenBank? | No |
| GenBank Accession | None yet |
| Refseq Number | None yet |
| Archiving Info | |
| Archiving status | Archived |
| Pitt Freezer Box# | 170 |
| Pitt Freezer Box Grid# | C10 |
| Available Files | |
| Plaque Picture | Download |
