Details for Phage Catoctluckton
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| Detailed Information for Phage Catoctluckton | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Found By | Joshua Morrison |
| Year Found | 2014 |
| Location Found | Leesburg, VA United States of America |
| Finding Institution | James Madison University |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | Yes |
| GPS Coordinates | 39.216918 N, 77.559873 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | Phage was recovered from the cut bank of a unnamed creek in the Catoctin mountains of Virginia near the town of Lucketts. Soil was rich in biomass, high quantity of leaf detritus present, largely chestnut oak. The soil is presumed to be acidic due to the presence of ericaceous shrubs in the surrounding area. The soil was moist and rather muddy when removed from the cut bank. The phage DNA was never analyzed however two attempts to do so were made both of which yielded degraded DNA. It is possible that the DNA is single stranded or even RNA, this is not confirmed. |
| Naming Notes | The phage is named as an amalgam of the locations nearest to which it was found, the catoctin mountain range, and the town of lucketts. |
| Sequencing Information | |
| Sequencing Complete? | No |
| Genome length (bp) | Unknown |
| Character of genome ends | Unknown |
| Fasta file available? | No |
| Characterization | |
| Cluster | Unclustered |
| Subcluster | -- |
| Plaque Notes | Plaque morphology is variable and highly erratic. At times plaques were clear at other times faint and cloudy. One plate infection yielded faint halos around all plaques, this has not been replicated. The size of said plaques ranged from 1mm to approximately 3mm. The shape of the plaques is not very irregular, it has thus far been nearly to totally circular. |
| Final annotation complete? | No |
| Has been Phamerated? | No |
| Uploaded to GenBank? | No |