Morphology of B. megatherium Bacteriophage

Abstract

Much attention is at present being paid to the fundamental problem of the relationship between the viruses and their host cells. The action of bacteriophage on bacteria is in many ways analognus to the action of a virus upon an animal cell. Since the bacterium-bacteriophage system is the less complex, and more amenable to electron microscopical study than living cells, the mechanism of bacteriophage action is a subject of active research.