Mycobacterium phage Ruriko
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| Detailed Information for Phage Ruriko | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 |
| Found By | Alba L Prince, Brooke A Bubert, Hailee R Perry |
| Year Found | 2025 |
| Location Found | Lindale, TX United States |
| Finding Institution | LeTourneau University |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | Yes |
| Isolation Temperature | 22°C |
| GPS Coordinates | 32.49 N, 95.42 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | The soil sample from which phage Ruriko was isolated was collected at 7:25 am CST on August 26, 2025, from a compost bin in the backyard of a home in rural Lindale, Texas. The morning was partly cloudy with an ambient temperature of 22 °C. Clearing away a layer of decaying fruit and leaves revealed moist soil teeming with worms, bugs, larvae, and the remnants of banana peels, watermelon rinds, corn husks, and coffee grounds. A plastic spoon was used to make a 4-inch wide and 3-inch deep hole, scoop a soil sample into a Ziploc sandwich bag, and take it to the laboratory for processing that morning. Five grams of the soil sample were weighed out and used for further processing, using the enriched isolation method. |
| Naming Notes | Ruriko is a feminine Japanese given name meaning Lapis Lazuli child. Lapis Lazuli is a blue variety of corundum, a type of sapphire, and is Alba's favorite gemstone. |
| 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 |
| 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 |