Sequence analysis of Discoknowium, an A5 mycobacteriophage

Abstract

Discoknowium is a temperate A5 bacteriophage that infects the bacterial host Mycobacterium smegmatis . Isolated from a rat fecal sample, Discoknowium’s genome is 50,222 bp in length, contains 84 genes and 1 tRNA, and shares 82%–98% nucleotide identity with other A5 subcluster phages.