Mycobacterium phage Qhanda
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| Detailed Information for Phage Qhanda | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 |
| Found By | Grant Stock |
| Year Found | 2025 |
| Location Found | Hooper, UT United States |
| Finding Institution | Brigham Young University |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | No |
| Isolation Temperature | 33°C |
| GPS Coordinates | 41.17107 N, 112.14912 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | Found in a compost pile in a field, the pile contained chicken bones, composting vegetables, and other similar things. |
| Naming Notes | The name is in the language Xhosa, since there were chicken bones in the compost pile I named it egg, but in the Xhosa dialect egg is Qhanda. |
| Sequencing Information | |
| Sequencing Complete? | No |
| Date Sequencing Completed | Feb 2, 2026 |
| Sequencing Facility | CD Genomics |
| Shotgun Sequencing Method | Illumina |
| Sequencer Used | Illumina NovaSeq X Plus |
| Read Type | Paired-end reads |
| Read Length | 150 bp |
| Approximate Shotgun Coverage | 4402 |
| Genome length (bp) | 57253 |
| Character of genome ends | 3' Sticky Overhang |
| Overhang Length | 11 bases |
| Overhang Sequence | CTCGCGGCCAT |
| GC Content | 68.0% |
| Fasta file available? | Yes: Download fasta file |
| Characterization | |
| Cluster | K |
| Subcluster | K4 |
| Cluster Life Cycle | Temperate |
| Annotating Institution | Unknown or unassigned |
| Annotation Status | Not sequenced |
| Plaque Notes | Large bullseye plaques, they were 4mm in diameter |
| 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 |
| EM Picture | Download |
