Sentence examples for limited host range from inspiring English sources

Mycoviruses are thought to have evolved in close association with their hosts (Ghabrial and Suzuki 2009) and have a limited host range, most often limited to one host genus (e.g., Liu et al. 2003).

When compared to viruses with a limited host range, zoonotic viruses with high host plasticity are more likely to spread after spillover by secondary human-to-human transmission and are known to have greater geographic spread7.

Despite these efforts, bacteriophage therapy remains an underutilized option in Western medicine due to challenges such as regulation, limited host range, bacterial resistance to phages, manufacturing, side effects of bacterial lysis, and delivery.

This reduced rate of antigenic change, combined with its limited host range (inhibiting cross species antigenic shift), ensures that pandemics of influenza B do not occur.

IBV is usually associated with respiratory disease in domestic fowl, and was believed to have a limited host range.

The limited host range compared to the normally broad host range of these plasmids might have allowed these plasmids to diverge from the other sub families.

Thus, besides considering relative bark substrate areas of hosts and spatial autocorrelations, very large sample sizes are crucial to support claims of limited host ranges.

Conversely, A* and Aw have very limited host ranges and have only been isolated from Key lime (Citrus aurantifolia) and alemow (C. macrophylla).

This large number of genes in C. violaceum genome is in line with its ability to survive in a wide range of environments, whereas the relatively smaller number of genes in the genomes of N. gonorrhoeae and N. meningitidis reflects their fastidious growth requirements and limited host ranges.

On the other hand, none of the TAL effectors from the limited-host-range strains (pathotypes B and C) was able to trigger the hypersensitive response (HR) observed in grapefruit plants when expressed heterologously in other strain, suggesting that TAL effectors from citrus canker pathogens do not limit host range but rather contribute to virulence associated functions [ 4, 21].

Serovars A-K have a limited host-cell range, they infect mainly squamocolumnar epithelial cells and are incapable of infecting deeper tissues.