Article
Carriage of λ Latent Virus Is Costly for Its Bacterial Host due to Frequent Reactivation in Monoxenic Mouse Intestine.
PLoS genetics - 1 Feb 2016
De Paepe Marianne, Tournier Laurent, Moncaut Elisabeth, Son Olivier, Langella Philippe, Petit Marie-Agnès
Abstract excerpt
Temperate phages, the bacterial viruses able to enter in a dormant prophage state in bacterial genomes, are present in the majority of bacterial strains for which the genome sequence is available. Although these prophages are generally considered to increase their hosts' fitness by bringing beneficial genes, studies demonstrating such effects in ecologically relevant environments are relatively limited to few...
Topics
- Animals
- Bacteriophage lambda
- Colony Count, Microbial
- Escherichia coli
- Gastrointestinal Tract
- Gene Transfer, Horizontal
- Host-Pathogen Interactions
- Lysogeny
- Mice
- Models, Biological