Details for Phage RandyPanda
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Detailed Information for Phage RandyPanda | |
Discovery Information | |
Found By | Gabrielle Boyd & Amarinder Pandher |
Year Found | 2014 |
Location Found | Elkton, MD United States |
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 | 39.6805 N, 75.921694 W Map |
Discovery Notes | Soil collected from a farm, on the edge of a cornfield. Collected on 8-31-14; 99% humidity; dry soil; taken from top 2cm of soil. |
Naming Notes | A fellow classmate could not pronounce the name of one of the RandyPanda discoverers (Amarinder Pandher), and affectionately nicknamed him "Randy Panda" for short. The name was catchy, so we used it for our phage. |
Sequencing Information | |
Sequencing Complete? | No |
Genome length (bp) | Unknown |
Character of genome ends | Unknown |
Fasta file available? | No |
Characterization | |
Cluster | Unclustered |
Subcluster | -- |
Plaque Notes | 1mm diameter; cloudy and round, displaying a bulls-eye morphology. |
Morphotype | Podoviridae |
Final annotation complete? | No |
Has been Phamerated? | No |
Uploaded to GenBank? | No |
Available Files | |
Plaque Picture | Download |
Restriction Digest Picture | Download |
EM Picture | Download |