"development of the colony" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it in a sentence like, "The development of the colony was hampered by lack of resources."
Wild rubber tapped by Africans, together with plantation-grown rubber, contributed to the economic development of the colony.
The moth adults emerged from larvae reared on leaves of different tomato cultivars were collected to be used in the development of the colony.
Most of the 1-year old queens were removed by beekeepers because of queen fecundity problems and weak development of the colony.
Additionally, by resolving individual cells and their intercellular forces, an agent-based approach may better account for the early development of the colony as it transitions from 2D to 3D growth [ 44] a behavior that is poorly accounted for in our current implementation.
Bumblebee colonies are composed of a few hundred workers compared to thousands of workers in a honeybee colony; therefore, it is likely that losses of bumblebee workers have a higher significance in the development of the colony than losses of honeybee workers.
Furthermore, while development of the rdar colony is an ordered process, it does not occur uniformly throughout the colony [9], [39] making temporal expression profiling in the colony complicated.
In order to maintain those policies yet encourage the economic development of the new colony, Gordon promoted the introduction of indentured Indian labourers and investment by an Australian concern, the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, to establish sugar plantations and processing mills.
Full details of the development of the CC colony are described in [ 9].
Deletion of the spermidine biosynthetic enzymes arginine decarboxylase encoded by speA or S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase encoded by speD prevents development of the highly wrinkled colony biofilm morphology of the wild-type B. subtilis strain NCIB3610 grown on solid polyamine-free MSgg growth medium.
This matrix is essential for the development of complex colony architecture characterized by aerial projections that serve as preferential sites for sporulation.
Here we investigated the development of alvinellid colonies on the EPR vent sites in order to detect whether a succession of new species less tolerant would follow colonization by Alvinella spp. or if different assemblages are forming depending on local conditions.
