Sentence examples for colony form from inspiring English sources

Thus, evolutionary change in polyp form or size (the colonial module sensu stricto) does not imply a change in colony form (constructed of modular branches and other emergent features).

Among ctenostomes and phylactolaemates, whose zooids lack skeletal features, colony form is more important.

There is a heritable, genetic basis to colony form, but environmentally-induced plasticity and self-reinforcing developmental physiology explain much of total phenotypic variance.

Fleets of ferries in the former British colony form the backbone of its transport network, running frequently to outlying islands, mainland Chinese ports and the nearby gambling hub of Macau.

Elucidating the morphogenetic signaling pathways responsive to metabolites or hydromechanical forces and the epigenetic effect of vascular architecture on colony form may give new insight into the self-maintenance of indeterminately growing and continuously developing vascular systems.

They were clearly different from H. seropedicae (under phase contrast microscopy) in cell shape and colony form when grown in JNFb solid medium (data not shown).

CFU, colony forming unit.

Colony forming unit measurements.

S.R. performed all HSC colony forming assays.

(b) S. aureus Colony Forming Units (CFU) in milk.

CNHs did not influence cell viability or colony forming ability.