Sentence examples for major hosts of from inspiring English sources

"Bats are major hosts of maybe the most important virus families regarding airborne transmission, like paramyxoviruses or coronaviruses, or for example influenza viruses have been found in bats recently," says Eckerle.

Quantitatively, the major hosts of CAM plants in the tropics are the moist forests.

Rodents are also the major hosts of Dermacentor spp. ticks, which can transmit R. raoultii transstadially and transovarially (2 ).

Sheep and goats are the major hosts of PPRV, and infection has also been reported in a few wild small ruminant species (2 ).

Small mammals, such as rodents and shrews, are the major hosts of H. longicornis tick larvae and nymphs (11 ); however, the role of small mammals as hosts of SFTSV is not well defined.

Numerous rat species have been demonstrated or postulated as major hosts of pathogens (e.g. Hantaviruses described from bandicoot rat, Bandicota indica in Thailand, [ 22, 23]; Bandicota indica, B. savilei, Berylmys berdmorei, Niviventer sp., and Rattus sp. serologically tested positive for Rickettsia tsutsugamushi, the agent responsible for scrub typhus [ 24]; etc).

Garnet is a major host of HREE, resulting in depletion of HREE in aqueous solutions and hydrous melts (Figure 2).

Rutile is a major host of high-field-strength elements (HFSE) such as Ti, Nb, and Ta.

The EU is a major host of green technology projects with a share of 46% in 2011.

Sina, the dominant Chinese news portal and a major host of blogs, is trusted by Beijing to run its sandbox.

Here we clone the pore lining M2 region of the Varroa mite RDL receptor and show that it has 4 atypical residues when compared to M2 regions of most other insects, including bees, which are the major host of Varroa mites.