Mycobacterium phage Seker
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| Detailed Information for Phage Seker | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 |
| Found By | Adam Rudner |
| Year Found | 2024 |
| Location Found | Los Altos, CA USA |
| Finding Institution | University of Ottawa |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | No |
| Isolation Temperature | 37°C |
| GPS Coordinates | 37.393428 N, 122.106022 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | Found in soil collected from a compost bin that also contained a decomposing Hawk. Seker genomic DNA was sequenced on a ONT Minion, R10.4.1 chemistry using rapid barcoding V14. The longest read was 65,527bp with 95% query cover, 97.56% identity to phage Nimrod (cluster E). |
| Naming Notes | Seker is the hawk-headed Egyptian god who is both a patron of the living, as well as a god of the dead. |
| 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 | Found in the same sample as Alanalda. Seker has medium size plaques with slight turbidity on the edges. |
| 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 |