Sentence examples for extensive colonies from inspiring English sources

Single plants of Urtica dioica (stinging nettle) are able to form extensive colonies within a short time by growing underground stems called rhizomes.

gliding "flying" squirrels, from aquatic capybaras and muskrats to desert specialists such as kangaroo rats and jerboas, and from solitary organisms such as porcupines to highly social organisms living in extensive colonies, such as prairie dogs (left) and naked mole rats.

The League could have assembled an army, but major powers like Britain and France were too preoccupied with their own affairs, such as keeping control of their extensive colonies, especially after the turmoil of the First World War.

Phragmites is large; it produces extensive colonies by means of underground rhizomes and ground-surface stolons, and the aerial shoots (culms) are 1 4+ m tall.

Actinomycete (order Actinomycetales), any member of a heterogeneous group of gram-positive, generally anaerobic bacteria noted for a filamentous and branching growth pattern that results, in most forms, in an extensive colony, or mycelium.

A recent historical survey (1) pointed out that extensive colony losses are not unusual and have occurred repeatedly over many centuries and locations.

Sixty novel alternative splice variants were cloned from 21 cell surface receptor genes by RT-PCR amplification followed by extensive colony screening.

The gas2Δ deletion strain exhibited an interesting phenotype in the halo assay, characterized by extensive colony formation inside the halo (see Figure 5), which indicates that deletion of GAS2 somehow facilitates the recovery from α-factor induced growth arrest.

After extensive rinsing, colonies were manually counted under a binocular microscope Stemi SV6 (Zeiss, Le Pecq, France).

Seabirds were plentiful; St Kilda has the world's largest gannetry as well as the most extensive fulmar colony in Britain.

After extensive wash, the colonies were photographed.