Details for Phage Comet
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| Detailed Information for Phage Comet | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Found By | Vishnu Retnakumar and Janelle Hodgson |
| Year Found | 2012 |
| Location Found | Baltimore, MD USA |
| Finding Institution | University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | No |
| GPS Coordinates | 39.257911, -76.709166 Map |
| Discovery Notes | Dry soil, direct sunlight, heavy foot traffic, taken off the surface, bottom of the hill leading to Terrace Apartment. |
| Naming Notes | Plaques made have fading tail like a comet. |
| Sequencing Information | |
| Sequencing Complete? | No |
| Genome length (bp) | Unknown |
| Character of genome ends | Unknown |
| Fasta file available? | No |
| Characterization | |
| Cluster | Unclustered |
| Subcluster | -- |
| Plaque Notes | Cloudy and 2mm in diameter. Comet producing cloudy plaques implies it being a temperate phage following the lysogenic cycle. |
| Morphotype | Myoviridae |
| Final annotation complete? | No |
| Has been Phamerated? | No |
| Uploaded to GenBank? | No |
| Available Files | |
| Plaque Picture | Download |
| Restriction Digest Picture | Download |
| EM Picture | Download |
