Sentence examples for component of the colony from inspiring English sources

This group does not comprise a critical functional component of the colony, as members of other castes also clean cells.

After correcting for habitat the variance component of the colony-pair wise comparison gets non-significant and explains only 1.2% of the overall variance.

It helps to think about the ants as components of the colony, in the same way that our skin, fingernails, cells, heart or blood are components in our body.

Accordingly, the cells are massively affected by small grazers and pathogens and thus rapidly disintegrate after the culmination of the bloom, so that sedimentation of Phaeocystis-derived organic matter becomes probably restricted to the more refractory extracellular components of the colonies.

Meanwhile someone may also want to initiate a video call with another part of the colony.

The total heat loss of the net is one (integral) component of ants' colony expenditures of energy.

For the social and eusocial species, where dispersal only occurs following periods of heavy rains or the death of the reproductives (Sherman et al. 1991), we maximized at 1.0 the first component of the index as new colonies tend to be founded by individuals that are capable of sexual reproduction.

One element of social behavior of intense interest in this regard is the number of reproductive queens in a colony, a basic component of colony social organization that often is linked to a host of other important reproductive and life-history traits in ants [2] [4].

In all colony-forming assays the presence of a MARS as a functional component of the pEPI-vector plasmid replicon increased the number of established colonies as compared to their respective control vectors without MARS.

14 The second key component of the recombinant antigen is the immune cell activator, granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF).

The order of the colony was dissolving.