Electron microscopy of the infection process of the blue-green alga virus

Particles of BGAV seem to attach to the walls of host cells by a long tail, like that of some bacteriophages, and at infection they probably inject their nucleic acid into the cells in a bacteriophage-like manner. In cultures inoculated some days earlier, masses of virus particles were found in thin sections of cells of the species Plectonema boryanum, P. notatum, and Lyngbya sp. Four other species were also susceptible to infection.