Mycobacterium phage HungryRhino
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| Detailed Information for Phage HungryRhino | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 |
| Found By | Reese Bartlett |
| Year Found | 2025 |
| Location Found | Boulder, CO United States |
| Finding Institution | University of Colorado Boulder |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | Yes |
| Isolation Temperature | 37°C |
| GPS Coordinates | Unavailable |
| Discovery Notes | I gathered dirt out front of my apartment (the Province on the Euclid side Boulder, CO) at 9:12am on 01.21.2025. It was 10℉ outside and I had to dig through about a foot of snow to reach soil which I then gathered and placed in a ziploc bag. |
| Naming Notes | We decided on Hungryhippo because that was a fun childhood game and our phage eats bacteria. It was the first thing to come to mind. |
| 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 | The head is 66.64nm and the tail is 184.5nm. It is a temperate phage because of the cloudy nature of the plaque and it is also of siphoviridae phage morphology. |
| 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 |