Mycobacterium phage DungDefender
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| Detailed Information for Phage DungDefender | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 |
| Found By | Zohaib Syed Usmani |
| Year Found | 2025 |
| Location Found | Richmond, VA U.S |
| Finding Institution | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | Yes |
| Isolation Temperature | 37°C |
| GPS Coordinates | 37.552291 N, 77.486726 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | Plaques were about 1 millimeter in diameter and the plaques were turbid. |
| Naming Notes | The reason I named it dung defender was because when I was getting soil samples, I would look for areas where dogs would normally pee/ poop at. |
| Sequencing Information | |
| Sequencing Complete? | No |
| Genome length (bp) | Unknown |
| Character of genome ends | Unknown |
| Fasta file available? | No |
| Characterization | |
| Cluster | A |
| Subcluster | -- |
| Cluster Life Cycle | Temperate |
| Lysogeny Notes | Lysogens grew well and no lysis was observed. Phage was released, meaning that it is temperate. |
| Annotating Institution | Unknown or unassigned |
| Annotation Status | Not sequenced |
| 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 |