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Published on: April 9, 2015
Genome analysis of a cluster EF bacteriophage LordBart isolated from soil in Tennessee
Sergei Markov1, Cynthia Fecteau1, Torrie Jones1
1Biology, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee, United States.
Abstract:
Bacteriophage LordBart was isolated from a soil sample in Clarksville, TN using the bacterium Microbacterium foliorum. The bacteriophage has a 56,975 bp genome with 86 predicted protein-coding genes, of which 32 were assigned predicted functions. LordBart has a siphovirus morphology and is grouped with bacteriophages in cluster EF based on gene content similarity. Its genome includes eight copies of a conserved 12 bp sequence motif located upstream of predicted translational start codons of some genes of unknown functions.
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