Mycobacterium phage Weaver
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| Detailed Information for Phage Weaver | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 |
| Found By | John Johnson Jr. |
| Year Found | 2024 |
| Location Found | Conway, SC USA |
| Finding Institution | Coastal Carolina University |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | Yes |
| Isolation Temperature | 37°C |
| GPS Coordinates | 33.796582 N, 79.010689 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | It was a humid morning, and the soil was a little damp. The soil was collected from the Gupta College of Science at Coastal Carolina University, across the path from R. Cathcart Smith Science building. |
| Naming Notes | Medium sized, cloudy, spherical plaques. |
| 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 | I took dirt samples from various ant hills around campus and after four attempts of isolation it finally worked. Since my sample was from an ant hill I decided to name the phage after an ant from the 1998 Antz movie. |
| 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 |