Sentence examples for secondary defense from inspiring English sources

"The other portion is from greater pest attacks in organic fields, triggering their defense mechanisms," he said, "which in turn are driving up secondary defense compounds that are also human nutrients".

Another writer noted Maulbetsch's skill as a "line breaker" as he "carried the ball repeatedly through the Harvard line and into the secondary defense with bullet-like rushes that upset tackler after tackler".

After insects detect a hunting predator, secondary defense mechanisms are often initiated.

Considering the great variability of verse duration, this small reduction would be inadequate as a secondary defense mechanism against gleaning bat attacks (Fig. 2A).

Anti-predator strategies of acoustically communicating insects are therefore common and can be classified as either primary or secondary defense mechanisms.

In such habitats, signalers often reduce their song duty cycle as a primary defense [21], [22], [31] or respond to ultrasound with song cessation as a secondary defense mechanism [12], [22], [24], [46] [50].

As for the weak flood walls lining the canals that collapsed in Katrina, those are now secondary defenses against gates that have been built since the storm.

There were concerns that the water could destroy secondary defenses the city had built to safeguard critical parts of the infrastructure, like water and sewer facilities and the lone remaining bridge.

Prey with strong secondary defenses (like the toxic frogs in the Wang and Shaffer 2011 study) have less to gain from costly signaling.

In this paper, we present a detailed study of the chemical secondary defenses in the genus Ranitomeya, as well as the only study of chemical secondary defenses in the context of Müllerian mimicry in amphibians.

Furthermore, WRKY proteins are known to regulate subsequently activated secondary-defense response genes [ 51].