Sentence examples for passing hosts from inspiring English sources

Tiny larval ticks hatch out on the forest floor in summer and latch onto passing hosts; because the larva waits for a host ("quests") close to the ground, it can attach to an animal of any size, from a rodent, to a bird, to a deer.

The detachment forces required from its supporting stem for the now brown fruits and the mature seeds they contain reduce to loads far below that of the fracture forces of the hooks and the fruit freely attaches itself to passing host.

The winter deer tick, Dermacentor albipictus, which feeds on one moose or deer all its life, waits on vegetation for a passing host while it is still in the larval stage.

This emphasizes the general problem faced by virions passing between hosts, that they must combine efficient release from one epithelial surface with efficient penetration of the next.

Such mutualisms are common and provide a close coupling between hosts and symbionts, with inorganic nutrients passing from host to algae and photosynthate (e.g. maltose) from algae to host (Muscatine, 1973, 1990; Reisser, 1992).

Harvard's quarterback won a notable summer passing competition hosted by the Manning family.

When animals bite each other in the face, as they do during mating season, tumor cells are passed from host to host.

This makes detection very difficult, but again mirrors the behaviour of some of Nature's worst viruses, which mutate as they pass from host to host.

Moreover, its origins can't be determined retrospectively, given how fast influenzas mutate as they pass from host to host.

The bacterium is passed from host to host through the bite of an infected ixodid tick: Ixodes scapularis in the eastern and central United States and Ix.

Since 1920, the "Antwerp flag" has been passed from host city to host city during closing ceremonies for the Summer Games.