Sentence examples for ancient host from inspiring English sources

Pointedly invoking A Midsummer Night's Dream, the location is the moonstruck garden during an Edwardian house-party where Lob, the ancient host, turns out to be Puck enjoying a freakishly extended lease of life.

These results suggest that echinoderm ferritin is an acute phase protein and suggest that sequestration of iron is an ancient host defense response in animals.

Is it a result of ancient host or prey shifts [65], [66] or adaptations to current environments?

Therefore, chrysomelid beetles likely radiated long after the origin of their host lineages and their diversification was driven by repeated radiaton on a pre-existing diverse resource, rather than ancient host associations.

AMPs represent ancient host defence effector molecules that are present in all organisms across the evolutionary spectrum.

Long branches tend to be associated with the most extreme instances of phylogenetic incongruence implying ancient host shifts have shaped contemporary relationships.

IS elements are very rare in the genomes of most ancient host-restricted symbionts or pathogens such as mutualistic insect and clam symbionts or chlamydiae [ 23, 24].

Overall, our analyses indicate that there were several ancient host-switches among major mammalian Plasmodium during the Eocene, a time compatible with the radiation of African anthropoids (monkeys and apes) [ 27].

When I think of Ted helping his ancient Chinese host grandmother cook dumplings, or picture Jay helping to paint a community center for local Carib families, they're the perfect children.

We conclude that the preference for integration into the introns of ancient (LECA) host genes is a consequence of these genes being broadly expressed.

As observed by Moran and Plague, bacteria that have ancient obligate host associations, lack IS-elements, and the present data on F. noatunensis subsp. orientalis Toba04 suggests that it falls into this category.