Complete Genome Sequence of a Phapecoctavirus Isolated from a Pigeon Cloacal Swab Sample

Anthony Khalifeh; Simona Kraberger; Daria Dziewulska; Tomasz Stenzel; Arvind Varsani

doi:10.1128/MRA.01471-20

Complete Genome Sequence of a Phapecoctavirus Isolated from a Pigeon Cloacal Swab Sample

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 Feb 4;10(5):e01471-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01471-20.

Authors

Anthony Khalifeh¹, Simona Kraberger¹, Daria Dziewulska², Tomasz Stenzel², Arvind Varsani^{3

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Affiliations

¹ Biodesign Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, Center for Evolution and Medicine, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
² Department of Poultry Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland.
³ Biodesign Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, Center for Evolution and Medicine, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA arvind.varsani@asu.edu.
⁴ Structural Biology Research Unit, Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences, University of Cape Town, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa.

Abstract

The complete genome sequence of a bacteriophage in the genus Phapecoctavirus (family Myoviridae) isolated from a cloacal swab specimen from a domestic pigeon (Columba livia f. domestica) was identified using a high-throughput sequencing approach. The genome is 150,892 bp with a GC content of 39.1%, containing 269 open reading frames and 11 tRNA genes.