Sentences with phrase «specific host animal»

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For a long time, the prevailing idea was that parasites and pathogens evolve to target a particular host and as they get better at infecting a specific animal or plant, they become less effective at infecting other organisms.

In grad school, I collected poop from 142 animals belonging to 12 species housed at 4 different zoos to investigate how host diet and genetic background select for specific microbial taxa and functions.

Deep - sea corals that thrive on and around seamounts host more than 1,300 different species of animals; some are unique to seamounts themselves and some live only on a specific species of coral.

On August 6, the Baldwin Park Animal Shelter, the facility where Hwang captures his amazing images, is hosting a special adoption event, specific to pit bulls.

They do this in a whole host of ways, but have a specific focus on sterilization as the most effective way to humanely reduce the number of animals in need.