Sentence examples for host of organisms from inspiring English sources

The so-called Cambrian explosion yielded most of the major groups of animals known today, but fossils of a host of organisms bearing little resemblance to modern life forms are embedded in Precambrian rocks—including those of the Ediacaran period, which began about 635 million years ago and lasted until the onset of the Cambrian.

Researchers for a host of organisms have turned to DNA barcoding as a powerful, new tool in the study of diversity.

A rich source for testing the relationship between biological function, gene duplication and intraspecific genetic variation are databases describing the metabolic pathways known and predicted within a host of organisms [20], [21].

We foresee the practice of maintaining high-quality genome sequences for stock strains in laboratories becoming pervasive as it facilitates rapid mutational profiling in laboratory evolution and selection experiments, and is readily applicable to a wide host of organisms and conditions.

In addition to killing insects or weeds, pesticides could be toxic to a host of other organisms including birds, fish, beneficial insects, and non-target plants.

These results represent new in vivo assembly maps of the E. coli 30S and 50S subunits, and the general qMS approach should prove to be a solid platform for future studies of ribosome biogenesis across a host of model organisms.

As those fish swam back up the rivers where they were born or the birds returned to dry ground, the nutrients went with them, incorporated into their bodies or excreted, eventually feeding a host of terrestrial organisms.

Although antibiotics may temporarily cause symptoms to disappear, a host of resistant organisms remain in the body to later reassert themselves, overpowering the very antibiotics prescribed for them.

A host of other organisms feast on dead trees upright or fallen, so that what on the surface might seem like a patch of ghost forest in fact is a biodiversity hot spot, a teeming terrain.

Mutations in components of the IIS pathway have extended lifespan in a host of model organisms [ 20].

mTOR inhibition, by rapamycin, has been demonstrated to extend lifespan in a host of model organisms as well as reduce the onset of cellular senescence in cell culture [ 46, 47].