Complete Genome Sequence of Serratia marcescens Siphophage Slocum

Jason Snowden; Heather Newkirk; Russell Moreland; Mei Liu; Jolene Ramsey; Justin Leavitt

doi:10.1128/MRA.01421-19

Complete Genome Sequence of Serratia marcescens Siphophage Slocum

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Jan 2;9(1):e01421-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01421-19.

Authors

Jason Snowden¹, Heather Newkirk¹, Russell Moreland¹, Mei Liu¹, Jolene Ramsey¹, Justin Leavitt²

Affiliations

¹ Center for Phage Technology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.
² Center for Phage Technology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA justincleavitt@gmail.com.

Abstract

Serratia marcescens is a ubiquitous Gram-negative opportunistic pathogen. This announcement describes the isolation and genome annotation of S. marcescens T5-like siphophage Slocum. Terminal repeats, 170 protein-coding genes, and 23 tRNAs were predicted in the 112,436-bp Slocum genome.