Sentence examples for deleterious bacteria from inspiring English sources

Since we were interested in deleterious bacteria, we chose cyanide-producing strains if possible.

However, both beneficial and deleterious bacteria are initially treated as invaders by prospective host plants and must find strategies to avoid host immunity, consistent with a nonspecific detection strategy.

However, these mutations are often associated with deleterious effect on bacteria fitness [ 22].

Overexpression of SBE activity to modify starch structure is a much more difficult proposition than knockdown, due to the enzyme's deleterious effects on bacteria during cloning of the constructs [ 14].

These results indicate that P. salmonis senses iron fluctuations in the environment and adaptively responds to both iron deficiency or excess, and since both conditions are deleterious for the bacteria, expression of acquisition and detoxification systems are finely regulated [ 63, 64].

This pattern would be expected if selection were occurring under conditions in which the pathway was induced, because a later block might result in the accumulation of redundant intermediates of the pathway, which would likely be deleterious for the bacterium.

Therefore, an excess or lack of nutrient may change the metabolic activity of a given bacterium, which will no longer or excessively produce such a metabolite essential or deleterious for the neighboring bacteria.

The vast majority of mutations in bacteria are deleterious, or quickly lost from the population due to random genetic drift.

Here we report that slow growth of bacteria decreases deleterious effects of spontaneous lambdoid prophage induction.

It was necessary to use immunocompetent mice because attenuated bacteria have deleterious effects on immunocompromised mice (Forbes et al, 2003).

Therefore, because of the high susceptibility of A. aureolatum ticks to R. rickettsii infection, the deleterious effect that the bacterium causes in these ticks may contribute to the low infection rates (<1%) usually reported among field populations of A. aureolatum ticks in RMSF-endemic areas of Brazil.