Abstract An ultraviolet light induced prophage has been discovered in the red pigmented marine vibrioBeneckea gazogenes. Two spontaneously derived pigment mutants, one forming pink colonies and one lacking pigment and forming white colonies, were also irradiated. The presence of pigment was not related to phage induction; uv-induced cell lysis occurred in wildtype and mutant strains at the same dosages. Lysis was not prevented or retarded by exposure after irradiation to visible light indicating the phenomenon was not photoreactivable. Electron micrographs of the ‘T-like’B. gazogenes phage are shown. A second beneckea was isolated from the anaerobic zone of cyanobacterial mats growing in the hypersaline environment of Laguna Mormona, Baja California. The Baja beneckea does not harbor a uv inducible prophage and is resistant to theB. gazogenes phage under all conditions tested.


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    Title :

    An ultraviolet light induced bacteriophage inBeneckea gazogenes


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Origins of life ; 9 , 3 ; 235-240


    Publication date :

    1979




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    BKL:    44.71 Verkehrsmedizin
    Local classification TIB:    535/3908/4290