Sentences with phrase «small colonies of»

If you're adventurous, dive with a grey nurse shark colony off Broughton Island, or, if you prefer to stay close to shore, dive among small colonies of nudibranchs and seahorses.

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

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

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

Against the odds, a young boy and his family found a small colony of Jambato harlequins, securing the survival of the species and funds for the boy's education.

Gut health is being furiously researched for its link to autism: in 2013, Italian researchers reported that compared with healthy children, the guts of autistic children contained significantly smaller colonies of healthy Bifidobacterium.

The resources available to help anyone trying to make the effort are nearly nonexistant, and the ability of a small colony of ferals to pump out kittens faster than you can catch them is like pushing sand against the tide.

She shares her home with 2 rescued dogs, Vada and Arthur Milton Jackson, as well as her small colony of kitties!

Curly, the individual that she was, had unknowingly produced a small colony of curly - coated cats that would later form the base for a controlled breeding program and the establishment of the breed!

I hope the bird lovers will, however, be willing to tolerate the occasional small colony of feral cats (especially if well maintained and not eating endangered species!)

The small colony of cats for whom you've been caring for years (sterilization and vaccination was just the beginning) lives quietly on your property.

A small colony of 8 feral cats are in need of a new home due to an unsafe location.

You have a small colony of cats that you've been feeding.

Towards the end of our two - hour kayak journey we paddle close to a small colony of shags perched high in the overhanging trees.

Here, we can test our snorkeling equipment and at the same time swim with a small colony of sea lions.

Not exact matches

Now imagine being born there, as something smaller than a grub, inside a cell at the honeycomb - like centre of the colony.

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 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.

I am a small berry farm operation using organic growing methods with several colonies of honey bees.

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.

Residents of small towns that rely on tourism and / or artists colonies and / or retreats for their economic well being.

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.

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.

Over a year and a half, this small but dedicated group grew 350,000 yeast colonies, picked out and cultured 35,000 promising mutants, and, for a selected subset of those, analyzed their telomere lengths.

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.

Researchers knew that the small Mediterranean nudibranch Cratena peregrina, with a colorful mane of streamers rippling off its body, climbs and preys on pipe cleaner skinny, branched colonies of Eudendrium racemosum hydroids, which are distant relatives of corals.

Take slavery: Protomognathus americanus ants raid the colonies of smaller ants called Temnothorax, steals their children, carries them back to the invaders» colony, and forces them into a life of servitude caring for the young.

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.

Twenty years ago small isolated colonies of bacteria, algae, and fungi were discovered living there.

Also, since small islands seldom support rattlesnakes, coyotes or other predators of birds, they become home to large seabird colonies.

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).

«When swept off their home reef, they have an infinitesimally small chance of ever reaching a suitable place to settle and become a coral colony.

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.

«This study provides novel insight into early life stage demographics of a long - lived seabird from the long - term study of a small and highly tractable colony.

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.

«There may not be much we can do to mitigate climate change, but steps could be taken to make sure the Earth's largest colony of Magellanic penguins have enough to eat by creating a marine protected reserve, with regulations on fishing, where penguins forage while raising small chicks.»

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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