Sentence examples for our parasitism from inspiring English sources

In our activity patterns experiment, we found that parasitized females did not hide more often than unparasitized females, suggesting that differences in female activity probably did not substantially bias our parasitism rate estimates in G. lineaticeps.

Although we have not observed substantial variation in wasp virulence (Oliver, personal observation), we designed our parasitism assays to minimize such potential effects.

Differences in the activity patterns of parasitized and unparasitized females might have biased our female parasitism estimates (e.g., parasitized females might spend more or less time exposed than unparasitized females).

Finally, our estimated parasitism rates may be underestimated since, according to our results, parrotbills reject even partly mimetic eggs quickly and to a large extent.

We briefly discuss developments in bio-imaging technologies and highlight how we could improve our understanding of parasitism by combining the genetic engineering of parasites to the one of the hosting organisms in which they complete their developmental program.

Understanding the molecular basis of the original developmental mechanisms, and the modifications that occurred during co-evolution with the host, is not only fundamental to our understanding of parasitism but also highly relevant for the design of anti-parasitic drugs and vaccines.

Compared to our knowledge of parasitism in shallow-water bivalves, little is known about parasitism in deep-sea Bathymodiolus mussels.

From a broader perspective this is supported by our results for parasitism in the wild.

Based on our transcriptome data, parasitism by D. semiclausum leads to down-regulation of genes associated with ecdysteroid activities; for example, the transcription level of ecdysteroid regulated protein was down-regulated more than 26 times in parasitized larvae (Table 3).

Furthermore, novel predictions of our model show that parasitism can steer the dynamics of phenotype specification from multistable equilibrium convergence to oscillations.

In our study, male-biased parasitism was modelled as increased relative susceptibility.