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Fig. 6. Genome maps of S. aureus bacteriophages. Circular maps of the 27 bacteriophages presented in this study are shown. Numbered marks are at 10-kbp intervals and tick marks at 1-kbp intervals. The name of each bacteriophage and the genome sizes are indicated in the center of each map. Genes are shown as colored boxes outside or inside each genome, depending from which strand transcription proceeds. The color coding of the ORFs reflects their homology with the Genbank Bacteria and Phage (B&P) databases: red, no match against B&P database; blue, match with an S. aureus phage protein; yellow, match with a non-S. aureus phage protein; green, match with an S. aureus bacterial protein; yellow, match with a non-S. aureus bacterial protein. Each genome map has been annotated into general categories of protein functions based on homology and/or the presence of annotated functional motifs (packaging proteins, head assembly, tail assembly, lysis, integration, and DNA replication). As well, genes encoding proteins of known or predicted function, based on the B&P database, are indicated. The orientation of the genomes have been arbitrarily aligned to position genes involved in packaging functions at 0^o. The circular nature of the genome is for presentation purposes only, because we have not mapped the ends of the bacteriophages.