🔬 Transduction

Discussion

<p>Not all phages are able to transduce bacterial DNA. Non-temperate phages, for example, do not display specialized transduction (or, at least, that associated with bacterial DNA acquisition during prophage excision).

Another example is seen with highly Virulent phage">virulent, non-temperate phages, which tend to not display generalized transduction. In this case, this is due to a tendency by these phages to destroy the genome of their bacterial hosts, a.k.a., host-genome degradation, and to do so early in the course of infection (e.g., phage T4). As a consequence, significant quantities of intact bacterial DNA simply is no longer present within the cell to be inadvertently packed into phage virions once virion maturation has commenced.

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