Figure 1

Nucleotide and amino acid dot plot analysis of 83 fully sequenced Bacillus phages reveals 10 clusters (A-J) and 15 singletons. Nucleotide dot plot of Bacillus genomes of less than (A) or greater than (D) 100 kb organized by similarity reveals 10 clusters of related phages. Amino acid dot plot of Bacillus genomes of less than (C) or greater than (D) 100 kb organized by similarity reveals 10 clusters of related phages. Thick lines indicate cluster assignments, which are provided on the Y-axis (A-J). Dot plots were produced using Gepard [57] and whole genome amino acid sequences were retrieved from Phamerator [34].