Desert diversity: genome sequence of Gordonia rubripertincta cluster DJ phage Mossy and cluster DV phage Erutan.

Lytic bacteriophages Mossy and Erutan were directly isolated from desert soil on Gordonia rubripertincta and characterized by their morphologies and genomes. Mossy, part of the DJ cluster of Actinobacteriophage, has a genome of 61,183 bp. The genome of Erutan, part of the DV cluster, is 66,957 bp.