Mycobacterium phage FighterPhil
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| Detailed Information for Phage FighterPhil | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 |
| Found By | Jemima Baum |
| Year Found | 2024 |
| Location Found | Cape Town, South Africa |
| Finding Institution | TASK South Africa |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | Yes |
| Isolation Temperature | 29°C |
| GPS Coordinates | 33.958038 S, 18.457502 E Map |
| Discovery Notes | Found in compost at the boundary of University of Cape Town and Table Mountain. Sampled from 20 cm depth. Fragrant aroma of herbal tea. |
| Naming Notes | The student's named it after her dad Philip Baum, in gratitude. |
| 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 | Isolated from plates displaying two plaque morphologies. The first plaque morphology displayed as clear, highly confluent with a diameter of less than 1 mm. The diameter of the plaques increased with dilution. The second morphology displayed as approximately 4x smaller than the first, and emerged as less confluent on the mixed plate. |
| 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 |