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Fig. 3

From: Spontaneously induced prophages are abundant in a naturally evolved bacterial starter culture and deliver competitive advantage to the host

Fig. 3

Growth response of Lactococcus lactis TIFN1 to different induction conditions. Mitomycin C (MitC) induction of TIFN1 initiated at different growth phase (OD600) and by different MitC concentrations. Initial OD600 0.05 (panel a), 0.1 (b), 0.2 (c), 0.3 (d) correspond to OD600 ~ 0.1, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, respectively, at the time point of MitC addition (after 1 h of growth without MitC). In graph C, the insert shows phage DNA release at 7 h of the incubation period (left: spontaneous induction; right: MitC (1 μg/mL)

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