Sentence examples for host traits from inspiring English sources

Numerous studies have investigated epigenetic gene regulation but there are limited studies on how the epigenetic landscape and the presence of pathogens influence the evolution of host traits.

We call this engineering approach host-mediated microbiome selection, because this method selects upon microbial communities indirectly through the host and leverages host traits that evolved to influence microbiomes.

The ecology of non-hymenopteran ('NH') parasitoid communities is poorly known, but recent work indicates that habitat and host traits have strong impacts on the size and composition of these parasitoid assemblages.

Parasites are known to cause strong selection on several host traits associated with mate choice [4], [6], [13], such as body size [14] and odor [15].

The present study is to our knowledge the first to report the influence of disruptive selection on evolution of discrete phenotypes in both parasite and host traits in an avian brood parasitism system.

This is consistent with the clinical observations that the course of breast cancer may be characterized by certain common pathways and the balance between tumor and host traits influences the pace of the common pathways.

A better understanding of how host trait variation influences fungal community assembly will be facilitated by studies that assess how plant functional trait variation affects both the species diversity and functional trait diversity of fungal communities.

Resistance is the host trait that prevents infection in the first place or reduces the performance of a pathogen on a host; both factors reduce the pathogen burden within a host individual.

Regardless of the relationship between virulence and erythropoeisis, the prediction of a clone-specific effect on this host trait could not likely be made from looking at data alone.

We assessed whether phylogenetic correction was needed for our data by calculating Pagel's λ statistic for each measure of PTR and for each host trait using the software program Continuous implemented in BayesTraits [ 62- 64].

The generally low value of host characteristics as predictors of parasite diversity led to the conclusion that "a given host trait correlates with parasite species richness in some studies but not others, and when it does, it explains only a small fraction of the variance in richness across different host species" [ 19].