Genome Sequence of the Cluster CD Gordonia Phage Widow

Ben Curtis; Bayarjavkhlan Ganbaatar; Griffin Lawrence; Wyatt Oglesby; Jaylee Rice; Emelia Tremblay; Melissa Maginnis; Sally D Molloy; Melody N Neely

doi:10.1128/mra.00695-22

Genome Sequence of the Cluster CD Gordonia Phage Widow

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2022 Oct 20;11(10):e0069522. doi: 10.1128/mra.00695-22. Epub 2022 Sep 6.

Authors

Ben Curtis¹, Bayarjavkhlan Ganbaatar¹, Griffin Lawrence¹, Wyatt Oglesby¹, Jaylee Rice¹, Emelia Tremblay¹, Melissa Maginnis¹, Sally D Molloy^{1

2}, Melody N Neely¹

Affiliations

¹ Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA.
² The Honors College, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA.

Abstract

Widow is a novel cluster CD bacteriophage isolated from a soil sample using the bacterial host Gordonia terrae. The Widow genome is 43,656 bp in length and encodes 64 protein-coding genes and no tRNAs. The genome shares 52 to 92% gene content with other cluster CD members.