Complete genome sequence ofPseudoalteromonasphage vB_PspS-H40/1 (formerly H40/1) that infectsPseudoalteromonassp. strain H40 and is used as biological tracer in hydrological transport studies.
Pseudoalteromonas phagevB_PspS-H40/1 is a lytic phage that infectsPseudoalteromonassp. strain H40. Both, the phage and its host were isolated in the 1970s from seawater samples collected from the North Sea near the island of Helgoland, Germany. The phage particle has an icosahedral capsid with a diameter of ~43 to 45 nm and a long non-contractile tail of ~68 nm in length, a typical morphology for members of theSiphoviridaefamily. The linear dsDNA genome ofPseudoalteromonasphage vB_PspS-H40/1 has a sequence length of 45,306 bp and a GC content of 40.6%. The genome has a modular structure and contains a high proportion of sequence information for hypothetical proteins, typically seen in phage genome sequences. This is the first report of the complete genome sequence of this lytic phage, which has been frequently used since the 1990s as biological tracer in hydrogeological transport studies.
Department of Environmental Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, 04318 Leipzig, Germany.
René
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Kallies
Department of Environmental Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, 04318 Leipzig, Germany.
Bärbel
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Kiesel
Department of Isotope Biogeochemistry, ProVis - Centre for Chemical Microscopy, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, 04318 Leipzig, Germany.
Matthias
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Schmidt
Institute of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
Johannes
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Kacza
Department of Environmental Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, 04318 Leipzig, Germany.
Nawras
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Ghanem
Department of Environmental Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, 04318 Leipzig, Germany.
Anja
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Narr
Department of Environmental Sciences - Aquatic and Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland.
Jakob
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Zopfi
Department of Environmental Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, 04318 Leipzig, Germany.
Lukas Y
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Wick
Young Investigators Group Bioinformatics & Transcriptomics, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, 04318 Leipzig, Germany.
Jörg
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Hackermüller
Department of Environmental Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, 04318 Leipzig, Germany.|German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
Hauke
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Harms
Department of Environmental Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, 04318 Leipzig, Germany.|German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
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Chatzinotas
AquaDiva; Bacteriophages as tracers; Genome; Marine phage; Pseudoalteromonas phage; Siphoviridae; Virus