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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"wild hosts"”.
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Spotted Wing Drosophila (Drosophila suzukii) in Arkansas: Winter Morphs, Wild Hosts, and Fungal Control
… where they overwinter in Arkansas, what local hosts they utilize and what potential alternative tactics can be used to combat this pest. In states north of Arkansas, winter morphs (WM) of SWD are larger, darker pigmented, and can survive colder temperatures than SWD flies found in the summer. …
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FUSARIUM GRAMINEARUM AT THE INTERSECTION OF WHEAT AND WILD GRASS COMMUNITIES
… also associated with dozens of non-cultivated or wild hosts. The pathogen’s relationship with wild hosts is poorly understood and may have an underestimated influence on epidemiology and evolution. This dissertation broadly examined the population biology and ecology of F. graminearum at the …
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The transmission ecology of Echinococcus multilocularis in a North American urban landscape
… maintained in a sylvatic cycle involving wild canid definitive hosts and small mammal intermediate hosts. As etiological agent of Alveolar Echinococcosis in humans, the cestode is currently the third most impacting food-borne parasite globally. Understanding E. multilocularis transmission …
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Exposure heterogeneity, host immunity and virulence evolution in a wild bird-bacterium system
… on pathogen fitness and virulence evolution in a wild bird-bacterium system. We first determined that exposure level has a significant effect on host susceptibility to infection, severity of disease and infection, as well as immunity produced to secondary infection. Subsequently, we tested whether …