Ebony and Holeinone represent the first mycobacteriophages isolated from Charlotte, NC, soil samples, using the host Mycobacterium smegmatis strain mc2155. Ebony has a 52,152-bp genome and showed similarity to other phages in the A11 subcluster.
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