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Phage life cycles can be differentiated into adsorption, infection, and release stages. Not all adsorptions progress to infections, however, with infection defined here as beginning at the point of phage nucleic acid entry into the bacterial cytoplasm. A basic distinction that can be made between different types of successful, not phage-destructive infections is whether they do or do not lead directly to the production and release of virions (virion-productive versus reductive infections) and then, if virions are produced and released, how that release takes place. In terms of these latter, productive infections, release can occur either lytically or chronically. This chapter takes a closer look at some of the biology of lytically virion-releasing phage infections as well as chronically virion-releasing phage infections, particularly as relevant to understanding phages as drivers of bacterial evolution. Additional and greater emphasis, however, is placed on gaining an appreciation of the biology of lysogenic cycles including from ecological and evolutionary perspectives.
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Abedon, S.T. (2022). A Closer Overview of Phage Infections. In: Bacteriophages as Drivers of Evolution. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94309-7_2
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