Genome Sequence of a Newly Isolated F2 Subcluster Mycobacteriophage from the Black Belt Geological Region of Western Alabama

Kayla M Fast; Tracy Keener; Rakim Ali; Brittany M Butcher; Joshua D Millwood; Timothy Odom; P Kiersten Schellhammer; Ezekiel Ufomadu; Michael W Sandel

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01555-17

Genome Sequence of a Newly Isolated F2 Subcluster Mycobacteriophage from the Black Belt Geological Region of Western Alabama

Genome Announc. 2018 Jan 25;6(4):e01555-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01555-17.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of West Alabama, Livingston, Alabama, USA kfast@uwa.edu.
² Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of West Alabama, Livingston, Alabama, USA.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

The bacteriophage Demsculpinboyz was discovered in a soil sample from the Black Belt region of Alabama using Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 as its host. The genome is 57,437 bp long and contains 116 protein-coding genes. It belongs to the F2 subcluster, which has only five other members.