Sentence examples for host size from inspiring English sources

Host size (quantity) and host age (quality) will typically form objective components of RV, whereas the age of competitors and their respective reproductive states constitute subjective influences on the value they are likely to place on host possession.

Laboratory results suggested that mercury levels were higher among younger children, which makes them more vulnerable since toxicity depends on host size.

Since host size is typically strongly correlated with parasitoid size [59], a size-mediated effect seems plausible.

Many parasitoids are able to assess the quality of hosts through host size and selectively parasitize hosts of a certain size [6] [7].

For a sampling of pathogens (one bacteria, three viruses, and one prion), we show how variation in host size, M, influences variation in the timing of pathogenesis.

Therefore, in the two models examined, there appears to be a balance between rickettsial load and host size in actively feeding arthropods.

We explored the evolutionary importance of two factors in the adaptation of RNA viruses to their cellular hosts, size of viral inoculum used to initiate a new infection, and mode of transmission (horizontal versus vertical).

Similarly, we should expect that body size drives the number of parasite species per host, as more niches are available on larger hosts [ 5, 10] (parasite-host size relationship (PHsR)).

Species richness of avian parasites is also known to co-vary with host body size, range size, habitat, phylogeny, latitude and immune defences [ 7, 8].

Total parasite species richness, ecto- and endoparasite species richness were corrected for both host sample size and fish body size using residuals obtained from these multiple regression.

This lab mutant study provided the first empirical evidence that cytoplasmic SGEs proliferate under small host population size and decline when population size is large.