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Ashtyn Stock1, Sarah Pritchard1, Shelby Stone1
1Natural Sciences, Lee University, Cleveland, Tennessee, United States.
Abstract:
Bacteriophage Annapurna is a siphovirus discovered within a soil sample collected in North Georgia. Annapurna was isolated and amplified using the host Microbacterium foliorum prior to genome sequencing. Annapurna contains 84 predicted protein-coding genes encoded across a genome 56,247 base pairs in length. Based on gene content, Annapurna is assigned to actinobacteriophage cluster EF. Like other phages in the EF cluster, Annapurna appears to lack both integrase and repressor genes and is therefore predicted to be a virulent phage.
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