The phrase "a relatively small colony" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a colony that is smaller in size compared to others or in a specific context.
Example: "The researchers discovered a relatively small colony of rare birds in the remote forest."
Alternatives: "a comparatively small colony" or "a modest-sized colony."
Results of a typical experiment are shown in Figure 7. Rat-1 cells overexpressing either ErbB1 or nucleolin formed relatively small colonies.
Estimates based on aggression and Bayesian clustering analysis of genetic data confirmed that neighboring nests of highland L. turcicus predominantly belong to different mutually aggressive and relatively small colonies, whereas all nests in L. neglectus populations belong to the same supercolony (Fig. 3D).
Although a relatively minor colony, it covered an extensive land area, totalling around.
When only a relatively small number of colonies grew (<100-), plasmid DNA was extracted and sequenced from all such colonies.
All these species are central-place foragers, which tend to be under particular pressure for foraging habitat, because many individuals concentrate their foraging in a relatively small area around the colony roost, as we observed in this study.
Pseudonocardia P1, isolated from the same ant colony as Streptomyces S4, produces a relatively small zone of inhibition in bioassays against E. weberi and a very small zone of inhibition against C. albicans.
Differences both within colonies and between species identify a relatively small number of genes that may contribute to the distinct "staghorn" versus "elkhorn" morphologies of these two sister species.
Although these behaviours are necessary for both colony and food source location, learning capacity plays a relatively small part in the overall pattern of honeybee behaviour.
Although gannets were using a large sector of the North Sea for feeding, ENFA estimated high habitat suitability scores within a relatively small coherent zone corresponding to a hydrographic frontal area, located east of the colony.
One way is to present a relatively small global-amount of CC, so that resident workers are not able to compare intruders' odours to colony-profile [10].
