Mycobacterium phage Mantid
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| Detailed Information for Phage Mantid | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 |
| Found By | Justin Bowser |
| Year Found | 2025 |
| Location Found | Myrtle Beach, SC United States |
| Finding Institution | Coastal Carolina University |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | No |
| Isolation Temperature | 37°C |
| GPS Coordinates | 33.7966 N, 79.01222 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | Taken from the soil at the edge of Turtle Pond at Coastal Carolina University. I dug down about an inch to reach more organic, damp soil that contained less sand. |
| Naming Notes | I like entomology, and praying mantises are one of my favorite insects. Mantid is the common name for the entire insect order of Mantodea, and incorporates the capsid of bacteriophages. |
| 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 | Mantid produces many non-uniform, small to medium-sized 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 | Not in Pitt Archives |