Sentence examples for mode of colony from inspiring English sources

Winged males of C. obscurior appear to posthumously increase the founding success of queens, independent of their mode of colony founding.

Unknown mode of colony foundation was coded as '?'.

The subfamily Polistinae is characterized by two major behavioral groups, based on their mode of colony founding and mechanism of reproductive dominance [ 54, 55].

We also compiled behavioral data on the mode of colony foundation for our exemplar species and tested for correlated evolution between queen thoracic morphology and founding behavior.

To test the hypothesis that the morphological classes associate with the behavioral classes, we compiled data on mode of colony foundation for the 54 ant species in our tree.

We did not observe changes in the T1/T2 ratio in lineages that secondarily evolved colony fission, even though this mode of colony foundation is known to co-occur with wing-loss in queens (Cronin et al., 2013).

The latter is associated with modifications in modes of colony foundation.

We implemented the concentrated changes test (Maddison, 1990), using MacClade (Maddison and Maddison, 2005), to test for a correlation between modes of colony foundation and queen morphology.

For the modes of colony foundation we assigned states for 'non-claustral'claustralrand and 'fission' based on records from the scientific literature (Table 3).

The way of vegetative reproduction and mode of daughter colony formation where the young colonies break out of the old parental layers reminded Bory of the legend of Pandora's box; thus, he applied the French diminutive, Pandorina, to the genus he named [ 7].

Lineage-stage-specific effects of TCDD on rHpSC and rHB colonies provide insight into a mode-of-action for TCDD-induced liver tumorigenesis.