| Detailed Information for Phage Merry |
| Discovery Information |
| Isolation Host | Microbacterium chocolatum GAI20246-6 |
| Found By | Alice Levesque |
| Year Found | 2021 |
| Location Found | La Jolla, CA USA |
| Finding Institution | University of California, San Diego |
| Program | Unavailable |
| From enriched soil sample? | No |
| Isolation Temperature | 30°C |
| GPS Coordinates | 21.997832 N, 159.375698 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | Isolated from an outdoor commercial algal pond (Lihue, HI, USA).
Pond water was 50X concentrated using a Vivaflow 50R cartidge, and spot tested on bacterial lawn of M. chocolatum strain GAI20246-6 which was previously isolated from the same pond.
Virulent phage lyses liquid host culture overnight at 30C with shaking (200rpm) |
| Sequencing Information |
| Sequencing Complete? | Yes |
| Date Sequencing Completed | Sep 26, 2024 |
| Sequencing Facility | J. Craig Venter Institute |
| Shotgun Sequencing Method | Illumina |
| Approximate Shotgun Coverage | 1788 |
| Genome length (bp) | 53640 |
| Character of genome ends | Circularly Permuted |
| GC Content | 67.8% |
| Fasta file available? | Yes: Download fasta file |
| Characterization |
| Cluster | EC |
| Subcluster | -- |
| Cluster Life Cycle | Lytic |
| Other Cluster Members |
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| Annotating Institution | University of California, San Diego |
| Annotation Status | In GenBank |
| Plaque Notes | Variable size, with smaller and larger plaques no larger than 2mm. |
| Morphotype | Siphoviridae |
| Number of Genes | 93 |
| Number of tRNAs | 0 |
| Number of tmRNAs | 0 |
| Has been Phamerated? | Yes |
| Gene List |
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| Publication Info |
| Uploaded to GenBank? | Yes |
| GenBank Accession | PP763431 |
| Refseq Number | None yet |
| Archiving Info |
| Archiving status |
Not in Pitt Archives |
| Available Files |
| Plaque Picture | Download |
| EM Picture | Download |
