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Genome and Characteristics of Bacteriophages Stardrop and Laphuphu24k
Rylee G Oberbeck1, Oliver F Jansson1, Shravani Khadilkar1
1Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States.
Micropublication Biology
|October 11, 2026
Abstract:
Bacteriophages (phages) are viruses that infect bacteria and are the most abundant biological entity on Earth. Two novel phages: Stardrop and Laphuphu24k, capable of infecting Arthrobacter globiformis B-2979, were isolated from soil in Raleigh, North Carolina. Both phages have siphovirus morphology as examined by transmission electron microscopy. Stardrop is a lytic AU6 cluster actinobacteriophage with 94 genes and Laphuphu24k is a lysogenic AS3 cluster actinobacteriophage with 68 genes.