Mycobacterium phage Elkia
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| Detailed Information for Phage Elkia | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 |
| Found By | Robert Balarin |
| Year Found | 2019 |
| Location Found | CORPUS CHRISTI, TX US |
| Finding Institution | Del Mar College |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | Yes |
| Isolation Temperature | 31°C |
| GPS Coordinates | 27.684722 N, 97.394444 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | This Phage was discovered under a tree where the tree stores its nutrients and water and where the soil was the most fertile. |
| Naming Notes | I chose Elkia because I felt like it would be a name that was driven out of all possibilities there was in the soil sample I collected. |
| 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 | Phage morphology shows signs of a lytic life cycle. Plaque's approximate size 2-3mm. The MTL Rating was 3.76x10^9 and my HTL Rating 3.2x10^9 for Phage Stability during the process. |
| 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# | 100 |
| Pitt Freezer Box Grid# | H12 |
| Available Files | |
| Plaque Picture | Download |
| Restriction Digest Picture | Download |
| EM Picture | Download |