Sentence examples for major host preference from inspiring English sources

Results clearly indicate a major host preference locus (or set of tightly linked loci) in the region around bkbwg.

Here, we backcross the region around ws1 g from N. giraulti into N. vitripennis using newly available visible markers, and map a major host preference effect in the region.

Through a series of interspecies crosses we have introgressed a major locus affecting host preference from N. giraulti into N. vitripennis.

Host preference and host performance was then compared between females of different colours.

Here we show that a major locus strongly influences host preference in Nasonia.

In insect parasitoids or predators, which include major biological control agents and limit insect populations in the wild (Hawkins 1994), host preference may be learned and thus may be plastic (Kester and Barbosa 1991; Davis and Stamps 2004; Kaiser et al. 2009).

Specific epithet refers to the host preference (Pinus).

No major host reaction was observed.

Information on host preference and feeding behaviours are crucial for a better understanding of vector host interactions and disease epidemiology.

Offspring sex ratios of E. nassaui were independent of host preference.

Finally, estimating innate host preference offers additional benefits to epidemiological studies of vector-host interactions.