Table 1. Synopsis of published Clostridium perfringens phages.

Name	Family	Genome size (kb)	ORFs	Dimensions (nm)	Genome structure	Integration (attB)/lifestyle	Reference
ΦS9	Siphoviridae	39.46	50	60 × 190	c.p. t.r.	noncoding, temperate	This work
ΦS63	Siphoviridae	33.61	43	62 × 170	3′ cos	sigK, temperate	This work
Φ3626	Siphoviridae	33.51	50	55 × 170	3′ cos	guaA, temperate	Zimmer et al. 2000
ΦCP9O	Siphoviridae	39.59	62	57 × 100	unknown	n.d.	Oakley et al. 2011
ΦCP13O	Siphoviridae	38.33	66	57 × 100	unknown	n.d.	Oakley et al. 2011
ΦCP26F	Siphoviridae	39.19	62	57 × 100	c.p., t.r. (putative)	n.d.	Seal et al. 2011, Oakley et al. 2011
ΦCP34O	Siphoviridae	38.31	65	57 × 100	n.d.	n.d.	Oakley et al. 2011
ΦCP39O	Siphoviridae	38.75	62	57 × 100	c.p., t.r. (putative)	n.d.	Seal et al. 2011, Oakley et al. 2011
ΦSM101	Siphoviridae	38.09	54	n.d.	n.d.	temperate	Myers et al. 2006
ΦCP24R	Podoviridae	18.92	22	44	inverted t.r., possible terminal protein	none (virulent)	Morales et al. 2011
ΦCPV1	Podoviridae	16.75	22	(42 × 23) × 37	inverted t.r. (predicted)	none (virulent)	Volozhantsev et al. 2011
ΦCPV4	Podoviridae	17.97	26	40–42 × 35–38	inverted t.r. (predicted)	none (virulent)	Volozhantsev et al. 2012
ΦZP2	Podoviridae	18.08	27	40–42 × 35–38	inverted t.r. (predicted)	none (virulent)	Volozhantsev et al. 2012
ΦCP7R	Podoviridae	18.40	28	40–42 × 35–38	inverted t.r. (predicted)	none (virulent)	Volozhantsev et al. 2012

n.d., not determined; c.p., circularly permuted; t.r., terminally redundant.