PhageD Summary

• Host: Bacillus subtilis
• Official name: 1102f3-1
• Morphology: myoviridae (icosohedral capsid with contractile tail)
• Genome: 163,878 bp
• Ends: blunt ends, 6941 bp direct terminal repeats
• 290 open reading frames + 2 tRNA genes.
• Identified as to function: 47
• Homologues of other proteins of unknown function: 41
• Most commonly matched Staphylcoccal phage K: 69
• Distributed in 2 regions of 80kb and 4kb respectively in which gene order is conserved.
• However there are numerous indels within this framework.
• Host species diverged by ~0.5 Bya.
• Terminase genes diverged by ~0.5 Bya.