Usage examples (16)

• 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 problem of the prophage had been posed, and now the history of lysogeny began again.
• In 1949, the new school of American virologists, to which virology owes so much, condemned lysogeny.
• However, a few heretics survived - and among them Jacques Monod, who played a decisive role in my decision to return to the problem of lysogeny.