Seven EA cluster microbacteriophages were isolated from soil collected around Philadelphia, PA, using the bacterial host Microbacterium foliorum. All of these phages have a highly conserved genome with regions of diversity localized to the 3′ end. In phage Phriends (EA1 cluster), this region contains an orpham gene with no known function.
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