The phrase "a progenitor for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is an origin or source for something else, often in a biological or metaphorical context.
Example: "The ancient species served as a progenitor for many modern animals that we see today."
Alternatives: "a precursor to" or "an ancestor of".
The H9N2 viruses have been reported to serve as a progenitor for novel human avian influenza viruses23,24,25,26, and the corresponding poultry-human transmission has also been captured in our results (Fig. 4, Supplementary Table 3).
That's Mr. Hancock if you're not as nasty as Terrace; a living legend, one of the first jazz musicians to embrace the pillars of hip-hop and a progenitor for Martin's perpetual portraiture.
Thus, identifying cotton as a vital resource produced in the inland does not by itself resolve the issue of whether the inland centers were a progenitor for the coast or vice versa Moseley argues, for instance, that successful maritime centers would have moved inland to find cotton.
However, there is no evidence so far directly confirming that tumor cells can serve as a progenitor for tumor vasculogenesis, despite some studies have indirectly supported the hypothesis [12], [13], [44].
12 Alveolar epithelial type II cells (ATII cells) play important roles in maintaining alveolar homeostasis and repair after injury by producing surfactant proteins and acting as a progenitor for alveolar epithelial type I cells.
Thirdly, chondrocyte volumes can vary about 10-fold in the growth plate, which counteracts the argument that the differences in cell size are too large for NCs to be a progenitor for CLCs.
Other than its current role in causing outbreaks in poultry and sporadic human infections by direct transmission, H9N2 virus could also serve as an progenitor for novel human avian influenza viruses including H5N1, H7N9 and H10N8.
The mammary epithelium is also thought to contain a number of progenitor cell types downstream of the stem cells, with good evidence existing in particular for a progenitor cell for the milk-producing alveoli of pregnancy in the luminal epithelial cell layer [ 28- 32].
They scoured Central Florida's half-million acres of emerald groves and sent search parties around the world to find a naturally immune tree that could serve as a new progenitor for a crop that has thrived in the state since its arrival, it is said, with Ponce de León.
In the latter instance, a stem cell or progenitor cell for a particular tissue type becomes transformed into a progenitor cell for a different tissue type.
I will present observations of the progenitor system of one Type Iax supernova, the first detection of a progenitor system for any thermonuclear supernova.
