| Detailed Information for Phage Kouch |
| Discovery Information |
| Isolation Host | Microbacterium foliorum NRRL B-24224 |
| Found By | Peyton Abraham |
| Year Found | 2025 |
| Location Found | Orange City, IA USA |
| Finding Institution | Northwestern College |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | No |
| Isolation Temperature | 30°C |
| GPS Coordinates | 42.99859 N, 96.0583 W Map |
| Naming Notes | I named this phage Kouch because I am a very big couch potato! I used a K because I wanted to be different! |
| Sequencing Information |
| Sequencing Complete? | Yes |
| Date Sequencing Completed | Dec 18, 2025 |
| Sequencing Facility | Pittsburgh Bacteriophage Institute |
| Shotgun Sequencing Method | Illumina |
| Sequencer Used | Illumina NextSeq 1000 |
| Read Type | Single-end reads |
| Read Length | 100 bp |
| Approximate Shotgun Coverage | 145 |
| Genome length (bp) | 41503 |
| Character of genome ends | Circularly Permuted |
| GC Content | 63.5% |
| Fasta file available? | Yes: Download fasta file |
| Characterization |
| Cluster | EA |
| Subcluster | EA1 |
| Cluster Life Cycle | Lytic |
| Other Cluster Members |
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| Annotating Institution | Northwestern College |
| Annotation Status | Being Annotated (Expected completion by 5/1/2026) |
| 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 |