Genome Sequence of Mycobacterium Phage LilHazelnut

Ryan A Shanks; Ashley N Hazel; William H Jones; Miriam Segura-Totten

doi:10.1128/MRA.00431-19

Genome Sequence of Mycobacterium Phage LilHazelnut

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 May 9;8(19):e00431-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00431-19.

Authors

Ryan A Shanks¹, Ashley N Hazel^#¹, William H Jones^#¹, Miriam Segura-Totten²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology, University of North Georgia, Dahlonega, Georgia, USA.
² Department of Biology, University of North Georgia, Dahlonega, Georgia, USA mstotten@ung.edu.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Here, we describe LilHazelnut, a novel mycobacteriophage that infects Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155. LilHazelnut is a cluster Q phage that shares 99% nucleotide identity with phage Giles, is 53,746 bp in length, and has a G+C content of 67.5%. LilHazelnut is a temperate Siphoviridae virus, as is typical of cluster Q family members.