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Table 2. Characteristics of the five sequenced phage genomes compared to φPLPE, Aaφ23 and PY100.

				Phages genomes sequenced in this study
	Iodobacter	Aggregatibacter	Yersinia	Aeromonas	Bdellovibrio	Pectobacterium	Vibrio	Vibrio
	φPLPE	Aaφ23	PY100	56	φ1422	ZF40	CP-T1	138
Characteristic	EU876853	AJ560763	AM076770	JQ177063	JQ177062	JQ177065	JQ177061	JQ177064
Genome size (bp)	47,453	43,033	50,291	43,551	45,354	48,454	44,492	44,485
%G+C content (range for host)	46 (50–52)	43 (44–45)	47 (47)	55 (58–59)	44 (51)	50 (52)	45 (47–48)	46 (47–48)
tRNAs	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Observed lifestyle	Lytic	Temperate	Lytic	Lytic	Lytic	Temperate	Temperate	Lytic
# ORFs:	84	66	93	83	76	68	70	67
- Structure/morphogenesis	15	7	12	10	6	10	10	11
- Replication/recombination	6	7	8	8	5	8	7	8
- Lysis/lysogeny	3	10	1	2	–	7	–	1
- Unknown phage functions	13	35	15	21	9	21	26	24
- Cellular functions/hits	9	5	3	3	7	14	3	2
- ORFans	38 (45%)	2 (3%)	54 (58%)	39 (47%)	49 (64%)	8 (12%)	24 (34%)	21 (31%)
“CoreGenes” shared with:
- φPLPE – over whole genome	84 (100%)	16 (19%)	14 (15%)	12 (14%)	9 (11%)	21 (25%)	29 (35%)	26 (31%)
- φPLPE – structural module only	47 (100%)	15 (32%)	12 (33%)	11 (23%)	9 (19%)	20 (43%)	28 (60%)	25 (53%)
Presence of:
- Anti-repressor(s)	ant	ant/antB/cro	–	ant	–	cro	–	–
- Repressor(s) + Activator	–	cI	–	–	–	cI + cII	–	–
- Integrase(s) + Excisionase	–	√	–	–	–	int only	–	–
- Transposase	–	–	–	–	–	√	–	–
- Partition protein	–	–	–	–	√	–	–	–
- DNA polymerase	–	–	–	–	–	partial	√	√
- Helicase(s)	–	√	√	–	√	√	√	√
- Primase	–	–	–	–	√	–	√	√
- Single-stranded DNA binding protein	–	–	√	√	–	–	–	–
- DNA methylase(s)	–	√	√	√	–	√	√	√
- λ-like recombination proteins	√	√	–	√	–	–	–	√
- Holin/lysin + anti-holin	Holin/Lysin	√	Lysin	Lysin	Lysin	Holin/Lysin	–	Lysin
- Terminase – L and S subunits	√	√	√	√	L only	L only	√	√
- Quorum-sensing acylase	√	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
- Cellular transcriptional regulator	tetR	–	–	–	σ⁵⁴	–	tetR	tetR