Table 1.

The Nucleotide Alignment of Whole Genome Sequences of vB_EcoM-RPN187 and Its Closest Relatives Using Pairwise Sequence Comparison

The overall nucleotide sequence identity (%)	Accession number	Bacteriophage	Genome size (kb)	% GC content	No. of protein encoding gene	No. of tRNA
—	OL770074	Escherichia phage vB_EcoM-RPN187	167.16	37.8	275	10
94.07	MZ189261	Escherichia phage S143_2	168.77	37.7	270	10
93.48	MN850579	Escherichia phage mogra	168.72	37.7	266	2
93.01	NC_029091	Escherichia phage APCEc01	168.77	37.7	274	2
92.83	MK047718	Escherichia phage p000y	169.87	37.7	276	10
92.81	NC_024124	Escherichia phage vB_EcoM_JS09	169.15	37.6	273	2
92.51	NC_041863	Escherichia coli O157 typing phage 3	168.73	37.6	272	2
92.34	KT184310	Enterobacteria phage ATK48	169.73	37.6	218	2
92.26	NC_055708	Enterobacteria phage ATK47	170.02	37.6	215	2
92.26	NC_054940	Shigella phage JK45	170.74	37.6	275	2
91.98	NC_055781	Escherichia phage p000v	167.80	37.6	264	1