Table 1.

Summary of original phage descriptions (classification according to viral particle morphology, genome lengths calculated by restriction enzyme digestion of phage genomic DNA and particle dimensions) and description of bacterial host strains.

Phage	Classification	Genome length (kb)	Phage particle dimensions	Phage isolation source (Reference)	Bacterial host/s	Bacterial host/s isolation source (Reference)
ϕBrb01	Siphoviridae	33.91 ± 2.41	Head 55–60 nm, tail 105 × 9 nm	Municipal sewage (Klieve et al., 1991)	Bacteroides sp. AR20***, Bacteroides (Prevotella) ruminicola ss brevis AR22, AR23	Ovine rumen fluid (Klieve et al., 1989)
ϕBrb02	Siphoviridae	33.02 ± 1.16	Head 55–60 nm, tail 105 × 9 nm	Municipal sewage (Klieve et al., 1991)	Bacteroides sp. AR20***, Bacteroides (Prevotella) ruminicola ss brevis AR7, AR22, AR23	Ovine rumen fluid (Klieve et al., 1989)
ϕRa02	Podoviridae	12.8	Head 25 nm, tail 18 nm*	Bovine fecal waste material (Klieve et al., 2004)	Ruminococcus albus AR67	Ovine rumen fluid (Klieve et al., 1989)
ϕRa04	Podoviridae	14.0	Head 25 nm, tail 18 nm*	Bovine faecal waste material (Klieve et al., 2004)	Ruminococcus albus AR67	Ovine rumen fluid (Klieve et al., 1989)
ϕSb01	Siphoviridae	30.9 kb ± 4.4	Head 60 nm, tail 110 × 7 nm	Bovine rumen fluid (Klieve and Bauchop, 1991)	Streptococcus bovis/equinus 2B, S. equinus Sb04, Sb17	NS** (Iverson and Millis, 1976b), ovine rumen fluid; bovine rumen fluid (Klieve et al., 1999)

^*Tail dimension estimated from TEM image presented in the Corrigendum to original phage isolation publication (Klieve et al., 2006);

^**Not stated (NS) in original isolation reference (Iverson and Millis, Personal Communication);

^***Bacteroides sp. strain AR20 was previously classified as Bacteroides ruminicola ss brevis, Prevotella ruminicola ss brevis in the Cytophaga-Flavobacterium-Bacteroides (CFB) group bacteria and Bacteroides thetaiotaomicro.