lysogeny


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ly·sog·e·ny

 (lī-sŏj′ə-nē)
n.
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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lysogeny

(laɪˈsɒdʒənɪ)
n
(Microbiology) the biological process in which a bacterium is infected by a bacteriophage that integrates its DNA into that of the host such that the host is not destroyed
lysogenic adj
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Noun1.lysogeny - 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"
condition - a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing; "the human condition"
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ulcerans can become toxigenic through lysogeny by beta-corynebacteriophages harboring the diphtheria toxin gene.
pestis strains from frozen stocks in lysogeny broth (LB) medium.
BL21-CodonPlus (DE3)-RIL bacteria (Stratagene, Santa Clara, CA, USA) were transformed with the pEThTFF3-His plasmid and then cultured in lysogeny broth medium at 37[degrees]C.
ETEC K88 was obtained from the Institute of Veterinary Drug Control of China and grown in lysogeny broth at 37[degrees]C for 16 h.
Significance of lysogeny in the marine environment: studies with isolates and a model of lysogenic phage production.
They were spotted onto lysogeny broth agar pH 6.5 containing nitrate as a control or nitrate plus nitrite as an experimental plate.
The packaged reporter constructs were subsequently plated on a lawn of Escherichia coli (gal[E.sup.-]) grown on lysogeny broth (LB) media, and positive selection for mutant plaques was performed using phenylgalactoside (Gossen et al.
Tsiotis G (2014) The membrane complexome of a new Pseudomonas strain during growth on lysogeny broth medium and containing glucose or phenol.