obligate parasite in a sentence
Examples
- Of families of flies causing myiasis, the Oestridae include the highest proportion of species whose larvae live as obligate parasites within the bodies of mammals.
- Root-knot nematodes are distributed worldwide, and are obligate parasites of the roots of thousands of plant species, including monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous, herbaceous and woody plants.
- Elgart said that keeping potentially contaminated clothing and furnishings away from people for about five days spells death to head lice, which are obligate parasites.
- "' Cecil Edmund Yarwood "'( 1908 1981 ) was an American-Canadian plant pathologist whose work focused on obligate parasites of plants, viruses, and conditions that predisposed plants to infections.
- Powdery mildew of wheat is relatively easy to diagnose " Blumeria graminis f . sp . tritici " is an obligate parasite which means it only grows on living tissue.
- In 1926, he was invited to speak at a meeting organised by the Society of American Bacteriology where he said for the first time, " Viruses appear to be obligate parasites in the sense that their reproduction is dependent on living cells ."
- While the evolutionary history of myxozoans is still an active area of research, it is now understood that myxozoans are highly derived Cnidarians that have undergone dramatic evolution from a free swimming, self-sufficient jellyfish-like creature into their current form of obligate parasites composed of a mere handful of cells.
- Unlike many bacteria, " Vampirovibrio chlorellavorus " is an obligate parasite, attaching to the cell wall of green algae of the genus " Chlorella " . " Vampirovibrio " originates from the Hungarian words " vampir " meaning vampire ( due to the nature of sucking out cellular contents of its prey)