Sentence examples similar to common hosted from inspiring English sources

It is also a common host to spittlebugs.

(Ducks are a common host of influenza viruses, and a better understanding of their genetics could greatly increase the pace of vaccine development).

Consequently, these rare host forms have higher survival or reproduction than genetically more common hosts.

The USA was the most common host country for arrested Canadians.

And the cycle begins again; now any parasite strain that can infect this newly common host genotype will increase in frequency and drive that host genotype down, leading to the emergence of a new common host genotype in the population.

Clearly, the parasite genotype that can infect the most common host genotype will be the most successful at reproducing.

The RQH posits that parasites adapt to specifically infect the most common host genotypes in a population.

The underlying premise of the Red Queen hypothesis is that parasites rapidly evolve to infect common host genotypes.

Therefore, potentiation of a common host defense mechanism can be used to prevent both the infections simultaneously.

Two pathogens co-infecting a common host can either interact positively (facilitation), negatively (competition) or act independently.

Parasites thereby exert negative frequency-dependent selection on their hosts, with the most common host genotypes having low fitness and declining in frequency as parasites infect them.