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Published in final edited form as: Adv Drug Deliv Rev. 2016 Mar 17;106(Pt A):45–62. doi: 10.1016/j.addr.2016.03.003

Table 1.

Some basic morphological and other properties of selected phages

Selected phage	Type of genetic material	Size	Host	M.W of intact phage
T4	ds DNA	200 nm	E. coli	110 kD
T5	ds DNA	160 nm	E. coli	75 kD
T7	ds DNA	46 nm	E. coli	38 kD
ØX174	Circular ssDNA	31 nm	E. coli	1.7 kD
F2	ssRNA		E. coli	1.2 kD
M13	Circular/ss DNA	890 nm	E. coli	2.4 kD
MS2	ssRNA	27 nm	E. coli	3.7 kD