Microbacterium phage Frankchicken
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| Detailed Information for Phage Frankchicken | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Microbacterium foliorum NRRL B-24224 |
| Found By | Ryan MacDonald, Matthew Doban, Iraj Amiriani & Kir |
| Year Found | 2024 |
| Location Found | Amherst, MA United States |
| Finding Institution | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | No |
| Isolation Temperature | 30°C |
| GPS Coordinates | 42.39024 N, 72.5363 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | Found in between the Central Heating Plant and Earl Lorden Baseball Field, in a swampy area. |
| Naming Notes | We chose to name our group's discovered phage "Sloppenheimer" as a playful tribute to the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The "Slopp-" portion of the name references the sloppy and messy appearance of the bacterial cultures and agar plates. |
| 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 | Circular, 2.5 mm in diameter, clear in color. |
| 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 |