Sentence examples for breadth of hosts from inspiring English sources

This study also documented that AMF had high specificity of host plant superorders and wider distribution with larger breadth of hosts.

For instance, evolutionary history, in combination with ecological heterogeneity, should shape taxonomic diversity of hosts and thus modulate the opportunity for parasites to exploit a wide or narrow breadth of hosts.

The number of known hosts of a pest or pathogen is a good indicator of the expected overall breadth of hosts for a pest or pathogen, which, when combined with the phylogenetic signal in host range, presents a simple predictor of which hosts a particular pest or pathogen is likely to attack.

As a measure of the breadth of host gene expression, we calculated the Shannon entropy for each gene expression profile.

Third, we obtained a crude index of the breadth of host range by counting the number of the host types that each pathogen species is known to infect: 0 (i.e., not zoonotic), 1, 2, and 3 or more.

However, when the fraction of emerging and reemerging species is compared with the breadth of host range (as the number of host types other than humans), a pattern becomes apparent.

Limitations set by galling behaviour of pollinating fig wasps might have consequences for the breadth of host phenotypes that can be used for reproduction and between which pollen is transferred.

For example, a model based on interactions between bacteria and their bacteriophage parasites by Ben Ashby and collaborators has demonstrated the importance of spatial structure in shaping the breadth of host resistance.

All monoecious species (except for B. bicolor) are specialists, but the posterior predictive test for association between life cycle type and breadth of host range yielded non-significant results (D = 0.19, p = 0.11).

They find that hosts and parasites from spatially structured populations should be less constrained by costs associated with 'generalism' than those from well-mixed populations, and therefore, that spatial structure is likely to increases the breadth of host resistance/parasite infectivity, especially when this increased breadth carries a significant fitness cost (Ashby et al. 2014).

The interest in this dynamic bacterium stems not only from its prevalence and breadth of eukaryotic hosts, but from the wide range of phenotypes that it imposes on its hosts; phenotypes that range from cytoplasmic incompatibility to sex-ratio distortion [27] [29].