Sentence examples for be a host cue from inspiring English sources
Ammonia is known to be a host cue for Ae. aegypti [ 49] and An.
First, we examine gene expression when females oviposit in the presence of cofoundresses (a "social" LMC cue); second, we examine gene expression when females oviposit on either fresh or parasitized hosts, where the presence of eggs is a "host" cue used to facultatively change sex allocation.
We have also shown that CO2 is an essential host cue for EPNs: attraction to insects is greatly reduced or even eliminated in the absence of CO2.
We also found that the gene expression changes produced by females as they facultatively allocate sex in response to a host cue and a social cue are very closely correlated.
This was true for both types of LMC cues tested: i.e., the response to foundress number (a "social" cue) (Shuker and West 2004), the state of the host (parasitized or not: a "host" cue), or a combination of the two.
To our knowledge, this would be the first example that plant chemistry alone can be an imprinted cue indicative of local host-plant abundance irrespective of plant quality.
Attacks often ceased when host chicks lay maimed and largely immobile, suggesting that movement may be a more important cue for attack than body heat.
The number of eggs laid in previously visited host patches seems to be an integrative cue of environmental profitability.
