| Detailed Information for Phage Maupel |
| Discovery Information |
| Isolation Host | Streptomyces griseus ATCC 10137 |
| Found By | Abigail Skultety |
| Year Found | 2025 |
| Location Found | Evansville, IN United States |
| Finding Institution | University of Evansville |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | Yes |
| Isolation Temperature | 60°C |
| GPS Coordinates | 37.9947 N, 87.4526 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | soil dry, dusty with little plant matter in it, which is also dry, almost, powdery, was hard to dig up. |
| Naming Notes | Despite not being the one who found it originally, I took a phage from Abigail's plate and my name is Mark Vaupel, and combining that we get a great name, Maupel |
| Sequencing Information |
| Sequencing Complete? | Yes |
| Date Sequencing Completed | Jan 8, 2026 |
| 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 | 70 |
| Genome length (bp) | 127531 |
| Character of genome ends | Direct Terminal Repeat |
| Direct Terminal Repeat Length | 766 bp |
| GC Content | 47.5% |
| Fasta file available? | Yes: Download fasta file |
| Characterization |
| Cluster | BK |
| Subcluster | BK1 |
| Cluster Life Cycle | Lytic |
| Other Cluster Members |
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| Annotating Institution | University of Evansville |
| Annotation Status | Being Annotated (Expected completion by 5/1/2026) |
| Plaque Notes | The plaque's were more often smaller, however their borders were irregularly shaped and consistently had weird non-fully circular shapes. |
| Number of Genes | 238 |
| Number of tRNAs | 35 |
| Number of tmRNAs | 1 |
| Has been Phamerated? | Yes |
| Gene List |
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| Publication Info |
| Uploaded to GenBank? | No |
| GenBank Accession | None yet |
| Refseq Number | None yet |
| Archiving Info |
| Archiving status |
Not in Pitt Archives |
| Available Files |
| Plaque Picture | Download |
| Restriction Digest Picture | Download |
| EM Picture | Download |
