Examples of lysogenic conversion include the bacteria *Vibrio cholerae* and *Clostridium botulinum*, which exhibit increased virulence and cause severe diarrhea and paralysis, respectively, only when expressing toxin genes carried by their integrated prophages.

Examples of Lysogenic Conversion

Lysogenic conversion, or phage conversion, is the alteration of a host bacterium's phenotype due to the integration and expression of extra genes (such as toxin genes) carried by a prophage.

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A lysogen is a bacterial host cell that contains an integrated temperate phage genome, known as a prophage, within its own chromosome.

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