Harboring a temperate virus

Usage examples of lysogenic.

Others, known as lysogenic phages, became genetic stowaways, hiding within the bacteria and inserting their genetic messages into the host DNA.

She had spent much of her career studying lysogenic phages in bacteria and retroviruses in apes and humans.

In bacteria, lysogenic phages express themselves when the bacteria are subjected to stimuli that could be interpreted as life-threatening—stress, as it were.

Bacteria exchange circular loops of DNA called plasmids and may have some genes carried by lysogenic phages.

Many bacteria that cause severe disease in humans, such as cholera, can have their toxicity triggered by the transfer of genetic material by lysogenic phages.