Host Specificity
Prickly acacia biocontrol phase II: host specificity testing of agents from India
... field host range and geographic range, the gall thrips, Acaciothrips ebneri (Karny) (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae), inducing rosette galls in shoot tips and sprouting axillary buds resulting in shoot tip dieback, ...
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Host specificity, mycorrhizal compatibility and genetic variability of Pisolithus tinctorius
... narrow host range (Bougher and Malajczuk, 1990 and Bougher et ...each host, there were a range of responses to inoculation by the fungi, which implies that differences between species isolates affect growth ...
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Evolution of host specificity in monogeneans parasitizing African cichlid fish
... of host specificity at a local level, strict specialism was revealed as the ances- tral state of host specificity in Cichlidogyrus and Scutogyrus ...congeneric host species parasitized ...
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Phylogeny of Pneumocystis carinii from 18 Primate Species Confirms Host Specificity and Suggests Coevolution
... Because a continuous in vitro propagation system for P. carinii is still lacking, the basic biology of this fungal group and subsequent epidemiology of PCP remain poorly understood (8, 11, 42). Airborne transmission ...
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Host specificity and co-speciation in avian haemosporidia in the Western Cape, South Africa
... of host specificity traits in some pathogens. Host specificity may range from ‘generalist’, where pathogens infect any available competent host; to ‘specialist’, where pathogens ...
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Host specificity and species diversity of the Ostertagiinae Lopez Neyra, 1947 in ruminants: a European perspective
... principal host can be indicated, except for ...principal host among members of both subfamilies the Bovidae and ...confirmed host specificity can be considered an in- dication of the species ...
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Along for the ride or missing it altogether: exploring the host specificity and diversity of haemogregarines in the Canary Islands
... present host- switching events dating to the time of parasites’ ...of host breadth seems to have been temporary, as contemporary host- parasite associations show a high level of host ...
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Host specificity in a diverse Neotropical tick community: an assessment using quantitative network analysis and host phylogeny
... the specificity indices we used, our analyses and inferences do have limitations that are inherent to all studies based on field observa- tions and published ...lowering host specificity estimates ...
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Host specificity and growth of kelp gametophytes symbiotic with filamentous red algae (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta)
... Abstract Kelp gametophytes were previously observed in nature living endophytically in red algal cell walls. Here we examine the interactions of two kelp species and six red algae in culture. Gametophytes of Nereocystis ...
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Bromovirus movement protein genes play a crucial role in host specificity.
... To test the role of the 3a movement protein gene in bromovirus host specificity, we have analyzed the systemic infection abilities of hybrid viral RNAs constructed by precisely exchangin[r] ...
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Does interspecies hybridization affect the host specificity of parasites in cyprinid fish?
... phylogenetic specificity, both parental species ...of host on the parasite abundance of intermediate generalists was found when taking host body size into ...ferred host (Šimková et ...some ...
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Polychromophilus spp (Haemosporida) in Malagasy bats: host specificity and insights on invertebrate vectors
... Polychromophilus spp. have been reported to be trans- mitted by nycteribiid flies [13, 14, 50], wingless Diptera that are obligate blood-sucking parasites of bats [34]. Molecular screening of bat flies sampled in the ...
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Genetic Diversity in Enterocytozoon bieneusi Isolates from Dogs and Cats in China: Host Specificity and Public Health Implications
... diversity, host specificity, and zoonotic potential of Enterocytozoon bieneusi, feces from 348 stray and pet dogs and 96 pet cats from different locations in China were examined by internal transcribed ...
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Host range, host specificity and hypothesized host shift events among viruses of lower vertebrates
... a host specificity ...in host spe- cificity, as reported previously by Iwamoto et ...the host specificity of different animal viruses ...
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Host specificity and plant growth promotion by bacterial endophytes
... specific host [32], which in turn determines the Rhizobium- legume host ...continuous host cell divisions result in the development of a uniformly infected central tissue which resembles the ...
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Puccinia spegazzinii (Pucciniales: Pucciniaceae) from Peru for biological control of Mikania micrantha (Asteraceae: Eupatorieae) in India: evaluating susceptibility of host populations and confirming host specificity
... spegazzinii (Ellison et al. 2008; Sreerama Kumar et al. 2016), was investigated more rigorously. Details of the 31 cultivars/accessions of sunflower tested for host specificity of the rust are given in ...
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Phylogenetic host specificity and understanding parasite sharing in primates
... Sampling effort is a major issue in comparative analyses of parasites because poorly- studied hosts will appear to have fewer parasites than well-known hosts (Gregory et al. 1996). We dealt with this issue by focusing on ...
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Host specificity of Enterocytozoon bieneusi genotypes in Bactrian camels (Camelus bactrianus) in China
... In previous studies, E. bieneusi genotype EbpC and EbpA were reported in humans and various animals and were also the predominant genotypes in the reports of humans and pigs in China [13, 17]. Genotypes EbpC and EbpA ...
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Bayesian inference supports the host selection hypothesis in explaining adaptive host specificity by European bitterling
... explain host specificity in avian brood parasites (Smith and Myers-Smith ...that host use is simply a function of parasite abundance, irrespective of host species or habitat features (Hoover ...
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HOST SPECIFICITY OF DNA PRODUCED BY ESCHERICHIA COLI. VI. EFFECTS ON BACTERIAL CONJUGATION
... One of the resistance transfer factors was shown to carry genetic information for production and control of host specificity itself; phage h is restricted in strains carry[r] ...
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