The phrase "a host of adaptations" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a large number of changes or modifications made to something, often in a biological or evolutionary context.
Example: "The species has developed a host of adaptations to survive in its harsh environment."
Alternatives: "a multitude of adaptations" or "a variety of adaptations".
The group found that changes to shoulders and arms allowed early humans to more efficiently hunt by throwing projectiles, helping our ancestors become part-time carnivores and paving the way for a host of later adaptations, including increases in brain size and migration out of Africa.
Yet the first analysis of a moss genome reveals that mosses are surprisingly complex, with 35,000 potential genes--10,000 more than the first land plant sequenced--and a host of unique adaptations not found in other green landlubbers.
Modifications within these convergent windows of positive selection are presumably responsible for driving enzyme properties towards local optima in response to a host of species-specific adaptations.
Yet with this host of adaptations comes an array of questions.
And it will be hard to miss, with Dickens exhibitions and festivals to be held across the country (and the world), a host of new radio and TV adaptations, a major retrospective of Dickens on film and several new biographies of the writer, along with numerous books and articles assessing his contemporary significance.
You would need verbal skills, abstract thinking ability, and a host of other cognitive tools for successful adaptation.
The proper functioning of this complex tissue involves adaptation to a host of cellular and environmental stressors over time, and cumulative long-term detrimental effects of oxidative stress have been implicated in decreased aqueous humor outflow.
A study of Viana et al. suggested that the presence of an additional von Willebrand binding factor protein (vWbp), encoded on a pathogenicity island (SaPI), represents a host adaptation factor of S. aureus for animals [ 20].
Therefore, we hypothesize that miR-203 and miR-193b methylation may also be a host adaptation to the development of gastritis or GCs.
Ever since 2017's IT adaptation became a surprise box-office behemoth, a whole host of Stephen King spinoffs and adaptations have leaped into production.
The gall is the cumulative expression of a suite of adaptations in the host plant for accommodating herbivorous insects (Raman et al. 2011).
