lysogeny

NOUN
  1. the condition of a host bacterium that has incorporated a phage into its own genetic material
    when a phage infects a bacterium it can either destroy its host or be incorporated in the host genome in a state of lysogeny
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How To Use lysogeny In A Sentence

  • 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. André Lwoff - Nobel Lecture
  • This system is probably still the best-understood regulatory system in eukaryotic biology and today is taught in every textbook of genetics and cell biology, alongside the lysis-lysogeny decision of and the lac operon of E. coli.
  • 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. The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
  • In 1949, the new school of American virologists, to which virology owes so much, condemned lysogeny. André Lwoff - Nobel Lecture
  • The decision of the genetic circuit that controls whether a virus initially chooses lysis or lysogeny is not random. Innovations-report
  • The problem of the prophage had been posed, and now the history of lysogeny began again. André Lwoff - Nobel Lecture
  • Returning to Melbourne in 1927, he concentrated on bacteriophage studies, making seminal discoveries in lysogeny and bacterial genetics. 4 However, in January The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
  • 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. François Jacob - Biography
  • 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
  • Their investigation quickly surpasses the specific cases of the bacteriophage and of lysogeny and merged with the fundamental problems of molecular biology. André Lwoff - Nobel Lecture
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