Mycobacterium phage Mermaid
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| Detailed Information for Phage Mermaid | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 |
| Found By | Dakota Kisling and Kelsey Jones |
| Year Found | 2018 |
| Location Found | Boulder, CO USA |
| Finding Institution | University of Colorado Boulder |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | Yes |
| Isolation Temperature | Not entered |
| GPS Coordinates | 40.00886 N, 105.268441 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | The phage first presented as temperate but after further isolation was found to be lytic. |
| Naming Notes | The phage has a long contractile tail, so it looks similar to a mermaid. The phage came from a muddy garden bed outside of the Porter Biosciences building at the University of Colorado, Boulder. |
| 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 phage is lytic in nature and has a siphoviridae morphology after going through electron microscopy. |
| Morphotype | Siphoviridae |
| Has been Phamerated? | No |
| Publication Info | |
| Uploaded to GenBank? | No |
| GenBank Accession | None yet |
| Refseq Number | None yet |
| Archiving Info | |
| Archiving status | Archived |
| SEA Lysate Titer | 1.18 e4 |
| Pitt Freezer Box# | 92 |
| Pitt Freezer Box Grid# | E7 |