Table 1.

A gallery of the largest phages in the literature

Host	Phage	Dimensions [nm]		DNA [kbp]	Calibration	References
		Head	Tail length
Alicyclobacillus acidoterrestris	P10	152	240		catalase	[18]
Bacillus megaterium	G	160	453	497	catalase	[2, 8, 26] GenBank JN638751.1
Caulobacter crescentus	φCr26	160	140		diffraction grating replica	[24]
	φCr24	140	140
Cronobacter sakazakii	GAP32	115	118	358	T4 tails	Abbasifar (conference report)
Gluconobacter oxydans	GW6210	170	136	~275	TMV	[25]
Escherichia coli	121Q	116	115	341	catalase	[2, 23]
	PBECO4	132	125	348	none	[19]
Klebsiella sp.	RaK2	123	128	346	catalase, T4 tails	[20, 21]
Proteus vulgaris	121	150	150		none	[22]
Pseudomonas aeruginosa	PA5oct	131	136	375	T4 tails	this work
Ralstonia solancearum	φRSL1	123-150	105-138	231	λ phage	[3, 5]
Unknown	X	156	119		catalase	[16]

kbp, kilobase pair; nm, nanometer; TMV, tobacco mosaic virus