Microbacterium phage TwinkyWinky
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| Detailed Information for Phage TwinkyWinky | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Microbacterium foliorum NRRL B-24224 |
| Found By | Cristina Chaparro & Alice Tran |
| Year Found | 2025 |
| Location Found | Tempe, AZ United States |
| Finding Institution | Mesa Community College Red Mountain Campus |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | Unknown |
| Isolation Temperature | 27°C |
| GPS Coordinates | Unavailable |
| Discovery Notes | Garden of bushes & flowers. Cats roam around the area, especially the garden. The garden gets tended to monthly—apartment location. |
| Naming Notes | Based on Hitachi TEM system, x50.0K Zooom - 1 HC - 180.0kV 2025/11/18 12:17 100nm Certain images are cute, like a bouquet of roses like twinky winky from teletubbies GPS: 33°24'57.4"N 111°54'28.1"W 33.415942, -111.907797 |
| Sequencing Information | |
| Sequencing Complete? | No |
| Genome length (bp) | Unknown |
| Character of genome ends | Unknown |
| Fasta file available? | No |
| Characterization | |
| Cluster | Unclustered |
| Subcluster | -- |
| Lysogeny Notes | Size: Smooth surface, consistent circular shape & moderately consistent size Turbidity: Clear with no evidence of a halo or Bull’s-eye variation Margins: Plaques exhibited sharp margins, indicating rapid, localized lysis. |
| Annotating Institution | Unknown or unassigned |
| Annotation Status | Not sequenced |
| Plaque Notes | Scale Bar: 100 nm, Hitachi TEM system (Transmission electron microscope) Morphotype: Capsid: single icosahedral head F-type pyocin, long tail tube structure with a distal base and tail fibre attached to the baseplate Bacteriophage morphology family: Based on TEM images and observational evidence, it’s evident that this is a bacteriophage that best fits in the family ‘Siphoviridae’ due to its capsid and tail categorization. |
| 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 |