Sentences with phrase «jump species barriers»

«For these viruses to jump species barriers they need a lucky genetic mutation combined with significant fluid exchange.

New research published in ASM's Applied and Environmental Microbiology shows that pathogens can also jump the species barrier to move from humans to animals.

A retrovirus that naturally infects many nonhuman primate species can easily jump the species barrier to humans and does so frequently among bushmeat hunters in Africa, according to a study published in the 19 March issue of The Lancet.

But others, such as famed evolutionary biologist Francisco Ayala of the University of California, Irvine, argue that P. reichenowi jumped the species barrier from chimps to humans quite recently and then became P. falciparum.

The big question was whether these strains were capable of spreading only in a limited, sporadic way from birds to humans — many of the cases were linked to poultry exposure — or if they had truly «jumped the species barrier.»

Somewhere between 3 and 1.4 million years ago, HSV2 jumped the species barrier from African apes back into human ancestors — probably through an intermediate hominin species.

GAINESVILLE — Eight Jacksonville racing greyhounds were killed by an equine influenza virus that jumped the species barrier from horses to dogs, University of Florida researchers announced Thursday.

In April 2004, a group of researchers at the University of Florida reported that preliminary findings suggested equine influenza virus had jumped the species barrier to dogs and caused a respiratory tract disease outbreak, killing eight Greyhounds in January 2004 at a track in Jacksonville, Fla..

No wonder it jumped the species barrier in such a dramatic way.