Mycobacterium phage Linnaeus
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| Detailed Information for Phage Linnaeus | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 |
| Found By | William Majewski |
| Year Found | 2018 |
| Location Found | Philadelphia, PA USA |
| Finding Institution | Saint Joseph's University |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | No |
| Isolation Temperature | 28°C |
| GPS Coordinates | 39.996932 N, 75.23449 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | Soil sample taken at entrance of residential building, next to walkway. Sample was taken at a depth of 5cm. Soil was dry and hard. 66% humidity on a sunny day on the fifth day of a heat wave. Phage was discovered through direct plating. |
| Naming Notes | Named after Carl Linnaeus, botanist, zoologist, physician, father of modern taxonomy and type species for Homo sapiens. |
| Sequencing Information | |
| Sequencing Complete? | No |
| Genome length (bp) | Unknown |
| Character of genome ends | Unknown |
| Fasta file available? | No |
| Characterization | |
| Cluster | C |
| Subcluster | -- |
| Cluster Life Cycle | Lytic |
| Lysogeny Notes | Phage is temperate and forms turbid plaques. |
| Annotating Institution | Unknown or unassigned |
| Annotation Status | Not sequenced |
| Plaque Notes | Head diameter averages 80.5nm. Tail diameter averages 84.5nm. Plaques were mostly turbid showing as about 2mm in diameter. |
| Morphotype | Myoviridae |
| Has been Phamerated? | No |
| Publication Info | |
| Uploaded to GenBank? | No |
| GenBank Accession | None yet |
| Refseq Number | None yet |
| Archiving Info | |
| Archiving status | Archived |
| Pitt Freezer Box# | 85 |
| Pitt Freezer Box Grid# | E3 |
| Available Files | |
| Plaque Picture | Download |
| EM Picture | Download |