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Gladiatorvirus jeffabunny

species of virus

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 8, 2025
Entity authorityQ22103518 ↗
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Gladiatorvirus jeffabunny or Mycobacterium virus Jeffabunny is a bacteriophage known to infect bacterial species of the genus Mycobacterium. It was discovered by Jeffrey Rubin in 2008 in a Howard Hughes Medical Institute funded lab as part of SEA-PHAGES. It was taken from surface soil in a planter, in the shade of a non-redwood tree at Merrill College found infecting, specifically, Mycobacterium smegmatis.

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“Gladiatorvirus jeffabunny” enters the record as species of virus. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gladiatorvirus, jeffabunny and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gladiatorvirus jeffabunny” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.