The phrase "a major vector for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant means or channel through which something is transmitted or spread, often in contexts related to disease, information, or influence.
Example: "The internet has become a major vector for the spread of misinformation."
Alternatives: "a primary channel for" or "a significant means of".
Hands are a major vector for transfer of DNA detected at crime scenes.
As many may know, the Common Milkweed is a major weed in many agricultural fields but at the same time, a major vector for agricultural pollinators.
This review is both retrospective and prospective, and naturally encompasses process calculi, which are a major vector for spreading concurrency theory concepts.
"Epidemic Takes Toll on Black Women" (front page, July 3) finds people in the South at risk for H.I.V. because protection is "overtaken by the daily struggle to get by," because they lack control over their lives and because a "desperate need for money" is a major vector for the AIDS virus.
It's no secret that mobile — and specifically Android — is becoming a major vector for malware.
First, email spam is a major vector for promoting counterfeit pharmaceuticals, and there have been many successful efforts to combat spam using machine learning and other data science techniques.
In Western Europe, the widespread and abundant Ixodes ricinus tick is the most common vector for human and animal pathogens and is also a major vector of pathogens responsible for rodent-borne diseases (2 ).
As the historian Eric Hobsbawm concluded in 1990, that force was almost spent, or as he put it, "no longer a major vector of historical development".
The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, awarded the 2002 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Sciences to Mary-Dell Chilton for her key discoveries and wide-ranging contributions in the development of the Agrobacterium tumefaciens Ti plasmid as a major vector system for plant genetic engineering.
Chemosensory signal transduction guides the behavior of many insects, including Anopheles gambiae, the major vector for human malaria in sub-Saharan Africa.
Cx. tarsalis mosquitoes appeared to be the major vector for transmission of WNV to pelicans in 2007 because vector and trap indices were high for this mosquito species, and blood meal identification linked these vectors to the pelicans.
