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Complete genome sequence of mycobacteriophage Hashim76, a B13 subcluster phage, from Hanahan, South Carolina
Riley M Polic1, Isabella E Gustafson1, Hams A Kamil1
1Department of Biology, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
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Abstract:
Hashim76, a B13 subcluster bacteriophage extracted from mud (Hanahan, South Carolina), infects Mycobacterium smegmatis mc2155 and exhibits siphovirus morphology. It has a circular double-stranded DNA genome (70,230 bp; GC content = 70.1) containing 101 putative protein-coding genes but no tRNA sequences. Whole-genome BLASTn alignment revealed high similarity to Zenteno07 (93.91% identity, 90% query coverage).
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