26. BRIDGET-G. GUIZA
Information acquired: 2025
BRIDGET-G. GUIZA is an academic who published a paper in 2011 entitled Expanding the Diversity of Mycobacteriophages: Insights into Genome Architecture and Evolution. BRIDGET-G. GUIZA published this work as part of a team: Pope, Welkin H.. Here is a description of this work: Mycobacteriophages are viruses that infect mycobacterial hosts such as Mycobacterium smegmatis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. All mycobacteriophages characterized to date are dsDNA tailed phages, and have either siphoviral or myoviral morphotypes. However, their genetic diversity is considerable, and although sixty-two genomes have been sequenced and comparatively analyzed, these likely represent only a small portion of the diversity of the mycobacteriophage population at large. Here we report the isolation, sequencing and comparative genomic analysis of 18 new mycobacteriophages isolated from geographically distinct locations within the United States. Although no clear correlation between location and genome type can be discerned, these genomes expand our knowledge of mycobacteriophage diversity and enhance our understanding of the roles of mobile elements.