Arthrobacter phage Semerald
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| Detailed Information for Phage Semerald | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Arthrobacter globiformis B-2979 |
| Found By | Esmeralda Sanchez |
| Year Found | 2024 |
| Location Found | San Antonio, TX United States |
| Finding Institution | University of the Incarnate Word |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | Yes |
| Isolation Temperature | 30°C |
| GPS Coordinates | 29.46709 N, 98.464819 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | The soil was collected from the university of the incarnate word, at a proximal distance from the blue hole. The soil was dark in color and clustered together. |
| Naming Notes | Since bacteriophage capsid heads are similar to gems. I named my phage after my names gem Esmeralda but in English as emerald and I included the first letter of my last name. |
| 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 | The plaques were tiny clear dots that infected the whole plate of bacterium. After an additional day the whole plate was infected, and the phage cleared out the plates host bacterium completely leaving a clear plate. The picture below shows progress of only a period of 28 hours. The phages are lytic due to producing clear plaques. |
| 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 |
