Mycobacterium phage Formbytter
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| Detailed Information for Phage Formbytter | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 |
| Found By | Maureen Page, Tamara Gruenewald |
| Year Found | 2019 |
| Location Found | Boulder, CO US |
| Finding Institution | University of Colorado Boulder |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | No |
| Isolation Temperature | 24°C |
| GPS Coordinates | 40.0087 N, 105.27 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | This phage was found under a pine tree and the soil sample contained several ants all of whom were removed. |
| Naming Notes | Formbytter is Norwegian for shape changer and this phage changes size dramatically based on the incubation time making it appear as multiple different phages. |
| 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 | When incubated for a short period of time (24 hours or less) this phage appears as a small (1mm) clear plaque but when it is incubated for a longer period of time it produces large (1.25cm) clearly haloed plaques. |
| Morphotype | Siphoviridae |
| Has been Phamerated? | No |
| Publication Info | |
| Uploaded to GenBank? | No |
| GenBank Accession | None yet |
| Refseq Number | None yet |
| Archiving Info | |
| Archiving status | Archived |
| SEA Lysate Titer | 3.0x10^9 pfu/mL |
| Pitt Freezer Box# | 123 |
| Pitt Freezer Box Grid# | B8 |
| Available Files | |
| Plaque Picture | Download |
| EM Picture | Download |