Mycobacterium phage Munchu
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| Detailed Information for Phage Munchu | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 |
| Found By | Ashley |
| Year Found | 2025 |
| Location Found | Staten Island, NY United States |
| Finding Institution | Brown University |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | No |
| Isolation Temperature | 18°C |
| GPS Coordinates | 40.599287 N, 74.082688 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | The soil was very active and you could see ants and other micro-organisms inside the tube of soil. |
| Naming Notes | Phages devour the bacteria by hijacking into their genetic system. Thus the name "munchu" for munching/ devouring the bacteria |
| 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 | It was about the size of 2 diameters and the plaques were not too distinctly shaped. |
| 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 |