Table 1 Distribution of replicative DNA polymerases and distinct DNA replication systems among cellular life forms and viruses

Viruses and other selfish elements

8 bacteriophages: -Saccharomonospora phage PIS 136 (AAL66178) – unclassified bacteriophage -Mycobacteriophage PBI1 (YP_655259) -Siphoviridae -Mycobacteriophage Plot (YP_655445) – Siphoviridae -Mycobacteriophage Catera (YP_656181) – Siphoviridae -Mycobacterium phage Bxz1 (NP_818250)- Myoviridae -Mycobacteriophage Barnyard (NP_818618) – Siphoviridae – Bacteriophage SPBc2 (NP_046685) – Siphoviridae Clostridium botulinum phage C-St (YP_398491) – unclassified Caudovirales

T-odd and related bacterio-phages (Podoviridae)

Bacteriophages: myoviridae (e.g., T-even phages); some bacteriophages of the family Siphoviridae; Eukaryotic viruses: NCLDV^a, herpesviridae, baculoviridae, some eukaryotic linear plasmids

none

Tectivirdae (e.g., phage PRD1), many bacteriophages of the family Siphoviridae (e.g., φ29); adenoviridae; linear plasmids from fungal and plant mitochondria

Bacteriophages: microviridae (e.g., φX174). Eukaryotic viruses with small ssDNA genomes: parvoviridae, nanoviridae, circoviridae, geminiviridae, numerous bacterial and archaeal plasmids