Sentences with phrase «most deadly pathogens»

Researching the evolution and diversification of insects is particularly important for all sorts of reasons, from attempts to understand changes in global diversity to detailed taxonomy and evolution of those groups — for example, the notorious Culicidae, the mosquito family, that act as vectors of some of the most deadly pathogens.

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This makes me happy: a research project has identified a gene that gives wheat plants resistance to one of the most deadly races of the wheat stem rust pathogen, Ug99.

Eduard Akhunov, associate professor of plant pathology at Kansas State University, and his colleague, Jorge Dubcovsky from the University of California - Davis, led a research project that identified a gene that gives wheat plants resistance to one of the most deadly races of the wheat stem rust pathogen — called Ug99 — that was first discovered in Uganda in 1999.

If we look at the African parasite that causes its most severe form, it is obvious why the pathogen is so deadly.

Now, a research team headed by investigators from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is the first to identify a mechanism by which influenza A, a family of pathogens that includes the most deadly strains of flu worldwide, hijacks cellular machinery to replicate.