A condition in which a bacteriophage genome (pro-phage) survives within a host bacterium, either as part of the host chromosome or as part of an extrachromosomal element, and does not initiate lysis.
State of a bacterium in which it carries the DNA of an inactive virus integrated into its genome. The virus can subsequently be activated to replicate and lyse the cell.
The ability of a phage to integrate into the bacterial DNA chromosome.
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"
The ability of temperate bacteriophages to persist in a bacterium by the integration of the viral DN
Lysogeny, or the lysogenic cycle, is one of two methods of viral reproduction (the lytic cycle is the other). While the lytic cycle is common to both animal viruses and bacterial phages, lysogeny is more commonly found in animal viruses. Lysogeny is characterized by the fusion of the nucleic acid of a virus with that of a host cell so that the potential exists for the newly integrated genetic material to be transmitted to daughter cells at each subsequent cell division.