We undertook a seasonal study in Tampa Bay, Florida, of prophage induction in cyanobacteria over the year ending in October 2000 to find out whether lysogeny occurs in natural Synechococcus ...

Viruses that infect bacteria (phages) can influence bacterial community dynamics, bacterial genome evolution and ecosystem biogeochemistry. These influences differ depending on whether phages ...

Viruses are thought to frequently kill their host bacteria, especially at high microbial density. A state called lysogeny, in which viruses lie dormant but don't kill their hosts, has been thought to ...