| Detailed Information for Phage PhillyPhantom |
| Discovery Information |
| Isolation Host | Microbacterium foliorum NRRL B-24224 |
| Found By | Dr. Alison Moyer, Anja Budo, Weining Hsu |
| Year Found | 2025 |
| Location Found | Langhorne, PA United States |
| Finding Institution | Drexel University |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | No |
| Isolation Temperature | 30°C |
| GPS Coordinates | 40.1808 N, 74.89185 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | The sample was collected from a tomato garden, the surface has fertilizer, dark brown soil/worm and insect activity |
| Naming Notes | We named this phage based on its unique plaque morphology. The plaques were showing up really tiny, cloudy, and perfectly circular, which made it stand out from other samples. |
| Sequencing Information |
| Sequencing Complete? | Yes |
| Date Sequencing Completed | Jan 20, 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 | 404 |
| Genome length (bp) | 41821 |
| Character of genome ends | Circularly Permuted |
| GC Content | 63.4% |
| Fasta file available? | Yes: Download fasta file |
| Characterization |
| Cluster | EA |
| Subcluster | EA1 |
| Cluster Life Cycle | Lytic |
| Other Cluster Members |
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| Annotating Institution | Drexel University |
| Annotation Status | Being Annotated (Expected completion by 5/1/2026) |
| Plaque Notes | Our phage is approximately 2mm in diameter with a circular shape, and it appears cloudy. |
| 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 |
| Available Files |
| Plaque Picture | Download |
