Sentence examples for serves as a vector from inspiring English sources

The house fly, Musca domestica, is a cosmopolitan and synanthropic insect that serves as a vector for many human diseases (Gupta et al. 2012).

Monochamus alternatus, pine sawyer beetle, serves as a vector for this parasite, and it spreads the nematode to pine trees [2].

The genetically engineered vaccine she received contains genes for a surface protein from two different strains of Ebola stitched into a harmless chimpanzee adenovirus that serves as a vector.

All haemogregarines undergo the majority of their development within a definitive invertebrate host, which also serves as a vector.

In turn, the nematode partner serves as a vector to transmit bacteria between insect hosts [ 19, 20] and augments bacterial virulence against insects [ 5, 21, 22].

This operator serves as a vector space equivalent of the boolean "OR" operator, allowing us to combine multiple reasoning pathways into a single search expression.

The startup's sales teams could also serve as a vector to place ads bought through Facebook's Audience Network on LiveRail's publishers' properties.

The small Jenner Institute in Oxford, U.K., is putting the Zika surface protein into harmless chimpanzee adenoviruses, which serve as a "vector" —an approach similar to one used in GlaxoSmithKline's Ebola vaccine, which was tested during the West African epidemic.

A triple multifunctional nanoprobe is being developed that consists of a nitrogen-based heterocyclic derivative, an anticancer agent interacting with a DNA in living cells; a recognized molecule serving as a vector responsible for targeted delivery of the probe into cancer cells; and photoluminescent QDs providing the imaging capability of the probe.

One of the messiest bits of sexual contact between humans is its tendency to serve as a vector for the transmission of disease.

In contrast, the solid MBM residue retained infectivity in the animal bioassay and cannot be considered as decontaminated and thus could still serve as a vector for disease transmission.