Mycobacterium phage YinYang
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| Detailed Information for Phage YinYang | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 |
| Found By | Mary Kate Nicely |
| Year Found | 2018 |
| Location Found | Blacksburg, VA USA |
| Finding Institution | Virginia Tech |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | Yes |
| Isolation Temperature | 37°C |
| GPS Coordinates | 37.243 N, 80.433 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | The phage was found at an apartment building next to a sidewalk that is heavily traveled. The soil was completely saturated from a recent thunderstorm. |
| Naming Notes | In one of the electron microscope images of this phage, the image looked like a yin and yang symbol, because half of the picture was light and the other half was dark. |
| 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 | The plaques produced by this phage ranged in size from big to small throughout all of the purification rounds, thus, this phage is polymorphic. Also, the plaques were circular and cloudy. |
| Morphotype | Siphoviridae |
| Has been Phamerated? | No |
| Publication Info | |
| Uploaded to GenBank? | No |
| GenBank Accession | None yet |
| Refseq Number | None yet |
| Archiving Info | |
| Archiving status | Archived |
| Pitt Freezer Box# | 80 |
| Pitt Freezer Box Grid# | D10 |
| Available Files | |
| Plaque Picture | Download |
| Restriction Digest Picture | Download |
| EM Picture | Download |
