Sentence examples for principal hosts of from inspiring English sources

For example, the principal hosts of different species of the bean common mosaic lineage are aroids, cucurbits, legumes, orchids and passifloras.

Wild birds are considered the principal hosts of West Nile virus (WNV).

Rodents from the subfamily Murinae are the principal hosts of the Old World arenaviruses.

Specific rodents are the principal hosts of the arenaviruses for which natural host relationships have been well characterized (2).

Members of the rodent family Cricetidae are the principal hosts of the Tacaribe serocomplex viruses for which natural host relationships have been well characterized.

Specific rodents (usually 1 or 2 closely related species) are the principal hosts of the hantaviruses, for which natural host relationships have been well characterized.

Two months later, the channel chose Mr. Olbermann to serve as the principal host of its coverage of a major prime-time address by Mr. Bush.

Theobroma cacao is the principal host of the virus which is naturally transmitted by mealybugs species.

The ant, C. leonardi is the principal host of the fungus O. unilateralis in Thailand and our field collections are confirmed by the high occurrence of this host species in the 3000+ historical records at the Herbaria of BIOTEC, Bangkok, which stretch back 15 years (Gerritsma, Hywel-Jones & Hughes, unpublished data).

We thus conclude that the species C. leonardi, and not other species of ants, is the principal host of O. unilateralis at our site and that ant trails are rarely found at ground level but more abundantly in the canopy where the colonies are located.

For example, the hispid cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidus) in Florida is the principal host of Tamiami virus (6, 7 ), and the ubiquitous house mouse (Mus musculus) is the principal host of LCMV (9 ).