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Example sentences for: obligate

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Chlamydiae are obligate intracellular pathogens that infect a variety of host organisms and exhibit individual tissue tropisms within a host species.
Such deletions are apparently irreversible in obligate mutualists, which lack recombination functions and genetic elements, such as prophages, transposons, and repetitive DNA that typically mediate gene acquisition.
He believed that the statement was dangerous because there are research methodologies that are related to evaluating screening and separate ones related to evaluating interventions, and we may not want to obligate tying the two together.
These microbes have piqued the interest of evolutionary biologists because they represent a wide spectrum of evolutionary strategies, ranging from obligate mutualism to reproductive parasitism (Buchner 1965; Ishikawa 2003) (Box 1; Table 1).
This may explain why obligate sibling chimerism never evolves (except perhaps in the very limited case of blood cells between sibling marmosets).