Mycobacterium phage Whitspit
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| Detailed Information for Phage Whitspit | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 |
| Found By | Abigail Pace |
| Year Found | 2025 |
| Location Found | Provo, UT United States of America |
| Finding Institution | Brigham Young University |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | Yes |
| Isolation Temperature | 29°C |
| GPS Coordinates | 40.275612 N, 111.652941 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | Garden plot growing tomatoes, composted with steer manure |
| Naming Notes | I named this phage after my roommate, Whitney, because who wouldn't want to have a bacteriophage named after them? |
| Sequencing Information | |
| Sequencing Complete? | No |
| Sequencing Facility | CD Genomics |
| Shotgun Sequencing Method | Illumina |
| 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 for this phage vary in size depending on the concentration of plated plaque. The higher the concentration, the smaller the plaques. Within a plate, plaque size and shape is constant. |
| 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 |