The phrase "a restricted host range" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to biology, virology, or computer networking, where it describes the limited variety of hosts that a particular organism or software can infect or interact with.
Example: "The virus has a restricted host range, primarily affecting only certain species of plants."
Alternatives: "a limited host range" or "a narrow host range".
Crop rotation with nonsusceptible crops "starves out" bacteria, fungi, and nematodes with a restricted host range.
These 2 species present a restricted host range and exhibit extensive gene loss, together with reduced gene gain [ 9, 36].
Most Brachyspira species have a restricted host range, whereas Brachyspira (formerly Serpulina) pilosicoli colonizes a variety of animal and bird species and humans.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.04550.002 Most parasites have a restricted host range and are often unable to exploit even closely related hosts (Thompson, 2005; Poulin and Keeney, 2014).
Although it has been suggested that gene loss was associated with a restricted host range for VARV, no link has been demonstrated between gene loss and increased severity of disease.
Some parasite species or lineages may indeed have evolved a restricted host range simply because they have not come in contact with other host species, for instance when these occur in allopatry.
This could potentially be addressed by either switching to an alternative phage platform with a more restricted host range, by engineering of TM4, or through addition of hydroxypropiophenone (NAP) that selectively inactivate M. tuberculosis complex bacteria [11].
WMV infects many weeds and several crops outside cucurbits while ZYMV has a more restricted host range.
While TEM, encoded by Tn3, has been found on IncP plasmids, it is more frequently found on plasmids of a more restricted host range, such as IncF.
So far, there is only one Dickeya spp. phage genome available in the GenBank database (NC019925), and this phage has a very restricted host range, able to infect D. solani only [ 1].
Different MLVs are able to infect different hosts, i.e., they have different host specificity: xenotropic MLV (Xmv) elements have a broad host range but are unable to infect laboratory mouse host strains, while polytropic MLV elements have a more restricted host range but are able to infect house mouse strains [ 4].
