Mycobacterium phage Starscream
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| Detailed Information for Phage Starscream | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 |
| Found By | Chris Livingston |
| Year Found | 2017 |
| Location Found | White Oak, NC USA |
| Finding Institution | Fayetteville State University |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | Yes |
| Isolation Temperature | 37°C |
| GPS Coordinates | 34.745161 N, 78.677571 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | This was taken from about 5 cm under the surface of a cotton field that had been recently irrigated with lagoon water from a nearby swine farm. No leaf litter was present; it was a simple matter of scooping up soil with a 50 mL conical. Time was 8:00am 28 August 2017, ambient temperature about 25degC. |
| Naming Notes | Starscream is from the Transformers franchise, a Decepticon second only to Megatron (name already taken). Besides being incredibly destructive, as phages are, Starscream is notoriously unreliable, exasperating, and treacherous, as phages also are when you are trying to get them to grow in the lab. |
| 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 | Archived |
| SEA Lysate Titer | 1.04*10^9 pfu/mL |
| Pitt Freezer Box# | 66 |
| Pitt Freezer Box Grid# | A3 |
| Available Files | |
| Plaque Picture | Download |
