Mycobacteriophage Rita: a cluster F1 phage discovered in North Easton, Massachusetts.
Anna M FakhriMarcie H WarnerJoseph A DeGiorgisKathleen CornelyPublished in: Microbiology resource announcements (2023)
Mycobacteriophage Rita infects Mycobacterium smegmatis mc 2 155 and was isolated from a soil sample collected in North Easton, Massachusetts. Assigned to cluster F1 based on sequence similarity to other phages in the same cluster, Rita has a 58,771 bp genome and encodes 104 genes. Rita is 98% similar to phage Bipolar.