Mycobacteriophage Acadian

At the beginning of my postdoctoral work in Dr. Graham Hafull’s Lab at the University of Pittsburgh, I isolated a mycobacteriophage from soil my wife collected from my home state of Louisiana.  I called it Acadian, because it was isolated in the heart of Cajun (Acadian) country.  The genome was subsequently sequenced and found to be the first member of the new subcluster of mycobacteriophages, subcluster B5.  It is submitted to GenBank accession no. JN699007.1.  A wonderful compilation of information on this and other mycobacteriophages can be found at phagesdb.org.