Details for Phage KoopaTroopa
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| Detailed Information for Phage KoopaTroopa | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Former names | KaChow |
| Found By | Elizabeth Breckenridge and Sandra Arias |
| Year Found | 2021 |
| Location Found | Dumfries, VA United States |
| Finding Institution | University of Mary Washington |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | Yes |
| GPS Coordinates | 38.594174 N, 77.310477 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | Found in the backyard, next to a garden. Found approximately late august/early September. GPS Coordinates- 38.5941741 N 77.3104772 W |
| Naming Notes | We named Ka-Chow after the catchphrase by our idol, the beloved, Lightning McQueen, from the Disney Cars franchise. Our lab bench partners Emma and Ashlyn had been thinking about naming their Phage from their favorite character, and Sandra and I mentioned that we both liked Cars. So we picked our phage name from that. |
| Sequencing Information | |
| Sequencing Complete? | Yes |
| Date Sequencing Completed | Jan 13, 2022 |
| Sequencing Facility | Pittsburgh Bacteriophage Institute |
| Shotgun Sequencing Method | Illumina Sequencing |
| Approximate Shotgun Coverage | 419 |
| Genome length (bp) | 170590 |
| GC Content | 34.4% |
| Character of genome ends | Direct Terminal Repeat |
| Direct Terminal Repeat Length | 284 bp |
| Fasta file available? | Yes: Download fasta file |
| Characterization | |
| Cluster | Unclustered |
| Subcluster | -- |
| Plaque Notes | Plaque Morphology- circular and fuzzy around the borders and edges, dark in shading and color, small margins, relatively cloudy, has almost a bubble around it, more plaques on undiluted sample than on 10-1 plate. |
| Final annotation complete? | No |
| Has been Phamerated? | No |
| Uploaded to GenBank? | No |