But in many microbial colonies, some bugs gladly sacrifice themselves for the greater good of bugkind. (discovermagazine.com)
IPIA sets ice handling standards, including requiring that ice have fewer than 500 microbial colonies per milliliter of thawed ice. (sciencenews.org)
The rocks there bear the marks of stromatolites — sizable mounds of mud and minerals trapped or precipitated by microbial colonies living in shallow ocean water. (discovermagazine.com)