[Relation of the growth of Anabaena variabilis cyanophages to photosynthesis and respiration].

Cyanophages A-1 (L) and A-4C (L) grow within the cells of Anabaena variabilis under aerobic conditions in the dark in the presence of endogenous or exogenous (surcose) sources of energy. DNP inhibits the growth of cyanophages in the light and almost completely supresses it in the dark, o-phenanthroline entirely supresses the growth in both cases. DCMU has almost no effect on the yield of the virus in the light. Virus particles can apparently be synthesized at the account of the energy of both oxidative and cyclic photophosphorylation.