Sentence examples for host offspring from inspiring English sources

The occurrence of Blochmannia in all Camponotus species sampled from field populations and its maternal transmission to host offspring suggest that this bacterium is engaged in a long-term, stable association with its ant hosts.

Parasites can also be transmitted to host offspring, and selection should favour maternal responses that extend protection against parasites to eggs, embryos or chicks [1].

Two-way ANOVA for time-to-host-death, host offspring production and parasite spore production in single infection treatments.

When necessary, parasite spore production and host offspring counts were square-root-transformed to meet the normality and homoscedasticity assumptions.

Following reproduction, a maximum of 20,000 parasite and 20,000 host offspring were selected at random to become the next generation of adults.

Overall, mixed infection treatments with P1 resulted in the production of significantly more host offspring than with P2 (F1,582 = 8.7, P = 0.003; Figure  2).

Because larger hosts yield more offspring, host size is a correlate of host quality or objective RV [ 7, 10], and it is unsurprising that females competed more aggressively for larger hosts.

In some places, it has wiped out 80% of the koala population.When a retrovirus infects cells involved in reproduction, bits of its genetic code can get passed down to the host's offspring.

In analyzing and interpreting their data from this first experiment, several students noted the possibility that the effects of previous host on offspring emerging from black-eyed peas could be due to non-genetic maternal effects.

Such a network determines not only the local dispersion of the pathogen but also the possible locations of a host's offspring.

Twenty eggs newly laid by females were left on their original hosts and offspring performance was determined by parameters of total development time (days), weight of eclosing adult (mg), survival and sex ratio (proportion of male).