Sentence examples for field colonies from inspiring English sources

The only factor controlled was light intensity, and our main conclusion was that overall corals on the platform became darker than field colonies in response to shading, but adjusted back to the same color level as field colonies after shade removal.

The extent to which the small tents of the early instars of Malacosoma americanum warmed when irradiated by sunlight was investigated by continuous electronic monitoring of field colonies for 137 colony-days.

The five polygynous field colonies were used as discriminator colonies, whereas the monogynous field colonies provided the QLE (n = 10) and the queenless field colonies the WLE (n = 16) and TWLE (n = 12).

In field colonies, we assume that queens were highly fecund, and we observed that they produced eggs that were chemically very different from WLE, so that the workers could easily recognize and destroy WLE in field colonies.

Many of the environmental variables inherent to field colonies are likely greatly reduced, or completely absent, in the laboratory.

Little is known about the microbial community structure in gardens and dumps or variation between lab and field colonies.

Because eggs or workers originating from the same field colony were sometimes used twice in the analyses (albeit once per egg origin), we included the colony of origin of eggs and workers as random factors in all the analyses.

For CK5, phosphor-histone H3 (pHH3) and nuclear proliferation marker (Ki67) quantification, photographs of at least five random 40× fields (3D colonies) or 100× fields (xenografts) per condition were used to calculate values.

To control for seasonal effects and confirm that the observed variation was consistent throughout the field season, colonies were screened once at the beginning of the season (May 2007) and again at the end (August 2007).

After field placement, colonies were checked weekly; on each occasion 10% of the offspring was removed and stored at -80°C for later dissection in a separate study on parasite resistance.

To do so, we reared field-collected colonies under medium or warm temperature treatments after having marked the field-born workers and removed the brood except for 30 first instar larvae.