Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The fusion of the nucleic acid of a bacteriophage with that of a host bacterium so that the potential exists for the newly integrated genetic material to be transmitted to daughter cells at each subsequent cell division.
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- noun The incorporation of the
nucleic acid of abacteriophage into that of a hostbacterium ; sometimes transmitted to daughter cells followinglysis
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- noun the condition of a host bacterium that has incorporated a phage into its own genetic material
Etymologies
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Examples
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For prokaryotes in the ocean, it has been suggested that in nutrient-rich waters (characterized by a high abundance of hosts) lytic phages dominate, whereas in nutrient-poor waters (characterized by a low abundance of hosts), lysogeny dominates.
Marine viruses 2007
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Returning to Melbourne in 1927, he concentrated on bacteriophage studies, making seminal discoveries in lysogeny and bacterial genetics. 4 However, in January
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The studies on psittacosis brought home to Burnet the importance of latent infections in diseases of vertebrates as well as in bacteria, in which he had long before recognized the nature of lysogeny.
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Let us return to the past and attempt to determine how our knowledge and our ideas on viruses and lysogeny, as well as our concepts of the relations between cell and virus, have evolved.
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However, a few heretics survived - and among them Jacques Monod, who played a decisive role in my decision to return to the problem of lysogeny.
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In 1949, the new school of American virologists, to which virology owes so much, condemned lysogeny.
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In 1958 the remarkable analogy revealed by genetic analysis of lysogeny and that of the induced biosynthesis of ß-galactosidase led François Jacob, with Jacques Monod, to study the mechanisms responsible for the transfer of genetic information as well as the regulatory pathways which, in the bacterial cell, adjust the activity and synthesis of macromolecules.
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The problem of the prophage had been posed, and now the history of lysogeny began again.
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Their investigation quickly surpasses the specific cases of the bacteriophage and of lysogeny and merged with the fundamental problems of molecular biology.
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The decision of the genetic circuit that controls whether a virus initially chooses lysis or lysogeny is not random.
innovations-report 2008
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