Sentences with phrase «in smaller colonies»

This division of labor is most marked in larger colonies (those found on larger trees), while workers in smaller colonies do both jobs.

The rate of exposure was not statistically different in small colonies and big colonies.

Research Summary: Staphylococcus aureus is the bacterium most commonly cultured from CF patients, and I am particularly interested in small colony variant (SCV) Staphylococcus aureus.

The animals weigh 7 - 8 gram and live in small colonies of up to 40 individuals.

But as long as the good ones predominate in your gut, they control all the pathogens... They keep them in small colonies and they don't allow them to proliferate.»

Feral cats usually live in small colonies in the abandoned spots of communities, living near a food source and some form of shelter.

This counterpart to the Black - billed Magpie is found only in California, roaming oak woodlands and often nesting in small colonies.

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As I recall, Plymouth actually stayed rather small and insular for some time while the Boston Bay Company took off with their colonies in what's now called Boston, New Bedford, and I believe the Cape Ann area but I'd have to re-read a book I read while going to school down on Cape Cod a few years back.

Isolated in their own land, they have been a small colony of troublesome strangers in the midst of a numerous and dominating people....

In 615, some of Muhammad's followers emigrated to the Ethiopian Aksumite Empire and founded a small colony there under the protection of the Christian Ethiopian emperor Aṣḥama ibn Abjar.

It has its centre in the Temple at Jerusalem with a small amount of contiguous territory, but the writ of its ecclesiastical government runs through hundreds of Jewish colonies, spread over the whole civilized world, and owing political allegiance to various secular states.

As natural selection kicked in, these bacteria graudally evolved into eukaryotic cells, then small colonies, then multicellular organsims, then pre-Cambrian biota, then crusaceans, jellyfish and, later, fish.

As they wailed and wept and prayed under the tin awning that shades the path into this clustered colony of small homes, the question on the minds the Pakistani Christians gathered in Gojra was expressed by a priest: «Who will protect us now?»

It can not be denied that consent operated in New England society in such a way that a relatively small group of elite magistrates and deputies managed to retain control of the colony.

At the end of the Revolutionary War, it was one of the smallest Christian groups in the colonies.

Animals from New South Wales were also sent to the French colony of New Caledonia, and in small numbers farther afield to Russia, Japan and India.

Because it was a compromise struck at the Constitutional Convention between the large colonies like Virginia and New York, and the smaller colonies like Connecticut and Rhode Island that all states would get an equal say in the Senate to prevent the large states from forcing their policies on the Smaller smaller colonies like Connecticut and Rhode Island that all states would get an equal say in the Senate to prevent the large states from forcing their policies on the Smaller Smaller states.

With the support of her rodent - tolerant family, she studied the effects of varying thyroid hormone levels on the physical characteristics of a small rat colony she housed in her living room.

Such challenges are increased in species with relatively small numbers or that have broadly distributed mating colonies.

After a few days, they divided the clusters into individual cells, a small percentage of which grew into so - called blast colonies of up to 400 million cells, the team reports in Nature Methods.

The researchers grew groups of yeast colonies in rows of small, circular wells on plastic trays — imagine the bottom half of a miniature egg carton that has eight rows instead of two.

Scientists may have found a sweet new way to fight Group B Strep: Sugars in some women's breast milk busted up colonies of the potentially harmful bacteria in a small lab study.

They rated each colony's aggressiveness by counting how many bees stung a small black leather patch attached to a pole and waved in front of the hive for 1 minute.

Solitary and highly mobile, it doesn't appear to have much in common with its close cousin the pterobranch, a much smaller marine worm that spends its life in stationary colonies, anchored to the sea floor by rigid tubes.

The survey, which asks both commercial and small - scale beekeepers to track the health and survival rates of their honey bee colonies, is conducted each year by the Bee Informed Partnership in collaboration with the Apiary Inspectors of America, with funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

A small number of federal researchers deemed essential by their agencies would still report to work, such as those involved in caring for patients at NIH's clinical research center, sustaining animal colonies in research laboratories, or handling weather data seen vital to public safety.

The survey, which asks both commercial and small - scale beekeepers to track the survival rates of their honey bee colonies, is conducted each year by the nonprofit Bee Informed Partnership in collaboration with the Apiary Inspectors of America.

In 2001, he discovered that a strain of yeast made up of unusually small cells and colonies lived about three times longer than normal yeast and was highly protected from DNA damage and aging.

Researchers analyzed social bonds in behavioral data from a long - term study of the rock hyrax, a small mammal that lives in colonies across Africa and the Middle East.

Oppel and his team found that they could use audio recordings to estimate a bird's population size after testing the method on a raucous colony of Cory's shearwaters that breeds on a small island in the Azores called Corvo.

Unlike most bacteria, this one lives in colonies that ooze around in small slimy clumps, hunting other microorganisms.

In places with lots of resources for these spiders, the scientists observe that small colonies are dominated by docile females.

This scavenger ant, commonly found in woodlands, has an elongated body and forms small colonies.

Scientists may have found a sweet new way to fight Group B Strep: Sugars in some women's breast milk busted up colonies of the potentially harmful bacteria in a small lab study.The results, published online June 1 in ACS Infectious Diseases and... Read More

Because young colonies have small numbers of poorly efficient termites, compared to mature colonies, there is an incentive to eliminate such young colonies before they grow too big, to prevent the damage from occurring in the first place.

Adélies are two - foot - tall birds that feed on krill, fish, and squid and build their nests from small beach pebbles in colonies that may occupy the same site for thousands of years.

In a low - risk situation, without competing ants, the colony didn't differentiate much between small, defensible nests and larger ones that need more soldiers.

«These ants walk more slowly, are isolated in colony interaction networks and have the smallest behavioural repertoires.»

In the lab, they offered a colony a choice of new nests in large or small holeIn the lab, they offered a colony a choice of new nests in large or small holein large or small holes.

Corals are colonies of small, tentacled animals that encase themselves in bony structures made of the mineral calcium carbonate, the same material that makes up the shells of other sea creatures.

The University of Minnesota's Annie Bracey and her colleagues attached geolocators — small, harmless devices that record a bird's location over time based on day length — to 106 terns from breeding colonies in Manitoba, Ontario, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and New York.

That may be because females form close associations with their roost mates and may forage near familiar individuals, while males often roost alone or in small bachelor colonies and may be less familiar with others foraging nearby.

Large buoyant particles dominated by cyanobacterial colonies harbor distinct bacterial communities from small suspended particles and free ‐ living bacteria in the water column — Limei Shi — Microbiology Open

Plerixafor has been approved by the FDA as the first small - molecule CXCR4 antagonist for use in combination with granulocyte - colony stimulating factor (GCSF) to mobilize hematopoietic stem cells to the bloodstream for collection and subsequent autologous transplantation in patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and multiple myeloma.

They find that wind delays smaller ants more than larger ones and that in windy conditions, colonies increase the number of larger ants, which are better able to deal with wind.

To study this, the researchers worked with different colonies located in Patagonia, Argentina, and measured the length of both outbound and inbound laden ants, as well as the effect of experimental wind (generated by computer coolers in the field) on larger and smaller ants.

Immunohistochemical staining of the automatically monitored colonies showed that these colonies were positive for Nanog and that SSEA1 was expressed in only a small proportion (3 %) of the cells (Figure 2f).

DNA sequencing of three quadruple - mutant colonies further confirmed that small deletions were present in all eight alleles of four genes (Figure 2F).

The small colonies of round, pebbly cells seen in the low and negative fractions were capable of neural differentiation under the appropriate conditions.

In the LOW and NEG populations, very few cells were capable of forming stem cell colonies; most formed small colonies that were negative for GCTM - 2.