(American Society for Microbiology, 26/10/2017) Butela KA; Hendrickson HL; Silander OK; Freed N; Kagey J; et al.
Seven mycobacteriophages from distinct geographical locations were isolated, using Mycobacterium smegmatis mc(2)155 as the host, and then purified and sequenced. All of the genomes are related to cluster A mycobacteriophages, BobSwaget and Lokk in subcluster A2; Fred313, KADY, Stagni, and StepMih in subcluster A3; and MyraDee in subcluster A18, the first phage to be assigned to that subcluster.
(American Society for Microbiology, 1/08/2017) Hendrickson HL
Three novel bacteriophages, two of which are jumbophages, were isolated from compost in Auckland, New Zealand. Noxifer, Phabio, and Skulduggery are double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) phages with genome sizes of 278,136 bp (Noxifer), 309,157 bp (Phabio), and 62,978 bp (Skulduggery).
