Sentence examples for terrestrial pathogens from inspiring English sources
Poinar, G. Evolutionary history of terrestrial pathogens and endoparasites as revealed in fossils and subfossils.
We discover an expansion of innate immune system genes in the mudskippers that may provide defence against terrestrial pathogens.
These results highlight the role of cetaceans as sentinel species for zoonotic and terrestrial pathogens in the marine environment, suggest a potential risk for cetaceans and public health along the North Western Italian coastline and indicate cetaceans as a novel potential reservoir for one of the most widespread Salmonella serovars.
In conclusion, these results highlight the role of cetaceans as sentinel species for zoonotic and terrestrial pathogens in the marine environment and suggest a high level of seawater contamination in the North Western Italian coast, which may adversely impact both cetacean species and public health.
Terrestrial pathogens have made their way into marine waters before.
In some instances, marine organisms and coastal habitats act as reservoirs for newly-introduced terrestrial pathogens and can contribute to disease transmission.
Comparisons with sequences in the Integrall database of integron sequences (http://integrall.bio.ua.pt/) showed that very similar arrangements of resistance gene cassettes to those found in bacterial isolates and water microbial communities have previously been described in class 1 integrons found in other human, fish and terrestrial animal pathogens.
A higher risk of exposure to terrestrial-origin pathogens and chemicals has been reported for sea otters residing near impaired habitats and those that feed preferentially on filter-feeding invertebrates [44], [49], [57], [59].
An analysis of the effects of climate change on a number of terrestrial and marine pathogens and their hosts suggests that warming can increase pathogen development and survival, while also increasing host susceptibility [11].
Considering the isolation of Rimitara, the small island size (ca. 8 km2), and the paucity of alternative terrestrial reservoirs for pathogens (four species including junglefowl and one introduced finch), our failure to detect haematozoa in A. rimitarae (as well as in the co-occurring finch Lonchura castaneothorax, n = 10) may reflect an impoverished pathogen community in general.
The ability of G. destructans to invade the wing skin of hibernating bats is unlike that of any known cutaneous fungal pathogens in terrestrial mammals.
