Lysogeny in marine Synechococcus

1 January 2002

journal article
research article
Published by Springer Nature in Nature

Vol. 415 (6871) , 496
https://doi.org/10.1038/415496a

Abstract

Viral infection of bacteria can be lytic, causing destruction of the host cell, or lysogenic, in which the viral genome is instead stably maintained as a prophage within its host¹. Here we show that lysogeny occurs in natural populations of an autotrophic picoplankton (Synechococcus) and that there is a seasonal pattern to this interaction. Because lysogeny confers immunity to infection by related viruses¹, this process may account for the resistance to viral infection seen in common forms of autotrophic picoplankton².

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