Phages can undergo two types of replication: lytic or lysogenic replication. Within a lysogenic cycle, the nucleic acid of the bacteriophage is integrated into the host’s genome, but the ...

Entry into the lytic or the lysogenic cycle is controlled by the lysis-lysogeny transcriptional switch. This switch activates the prophage, resulting in viral replication, host cell lysis, and the ...

Now, Erez, Steinberger-Levy et al. report that phages of Bacillus species use a peptide-based communication system to decide whether to enter the lytic or lysogenic life cycle.

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 58, No. 2 (2013), pp. 465-474 (10 pages) Experiments were conducted to investigate spatiotemporal patterns in lytic and lysogenic viral infection using water samples ...