| Detailed Information for Phage StormChicken |
| Discovery Information |
| Isolation Host | Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 |
| Found By | Joey Billyboy |
| Year Found | 2024 |
| Location Found | Bellingham, WA United States |
| Finding Institution | Northwest Indian College |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | Yes |
| Isolation Temperature | 37°C |
| GPS Coordinates | 43.6387 N, 116.2413 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | This phage was found in a chicken coop by a garage next to a sidewalk in the Columbia neighborhood of Bellingham. |
| Naming Notes | StormChicken
I named this phage after my daughter Hunter because she is the one that collected the sample. When the sample of soil was collected I was pregnant and too far along where it was hard for me to bend over. I used her middle name "Storm" for the first part of the phage.
Chicken because it was found in a chicken coop and because we love eating chicken. |
| Sequencing Information |
| Sequencing Complete? | Yes |
| Date Sequencing Completed | Jan 28, 2025 |
| Sequencing Facility | Pittsburgh Bacteriophage Institute |
| Shotgun Sequencing Method | Illumina |
| Sequencer Used | Illumina NextSeq 1000 |
| Read Type | Single-end reads |
| Read Length | 100 bp |
| Approximate Shotgun Coverage | 4527 |
| Genome length (bp) | 75944 |
| Character of genome ends | 3' Sticky Overhang |
| Overhang Length | 9 bases |
| Overhang Sequence | CGCTTGTCA |
| GC Content | 62.9% |
| Fasta file available? | Yes: Download fasta file |
| Characterization |
| Cluster | E |
| Subcluster | -- |
| Cluster Life Cycle | Temperate |
| Other Cluster Members |
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| Annotating Institution | Northwest Indian College |
| Annotation Status | Being Annotated (Expected completion by 12/19/2025) |
| Plaque Notes | This phage resembles a cracked egg. It also has the resemblance of mitosis in the interphase stage. |
| Morphotype | Siphoviridae |
| Number of Genes | 145 |
| Number of tRNAs | 2 |
| Number of tmRNAs | 0 |
| Has been Phamerated? | Yes |
| Gene List |
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| Publication Info |
| Uploaded to GenBank? | No |
| GenBank Accession | None yet |
| Refseq Number | None yet |
| Archiving Info |
| Archiving status |
Archived |
| SEA Lysate Titer |
72 ug/uL |
| Pitt Freezer Box# |
197 |
| Pitt Freezer Box Grid# |
H12 |
| Available Files |
| Plaque Picture | Download |
