Mr. Heyd, who oversees marketing at Shell's 4,000 stations, says the gas station business is undergoing fragmentation just as the medical world is.

For reproduction, lichen possess isidia, soredia, and undergo simple fragmentation.

Thus the axon undergoes complete fragmentation.

As it was undergoing fragmentation, Kievan Rus' faced the unexpected eruption of an irresistible foreign foe coming from the mysterious regions of the Far East.

It has been found that when exposed to UVB radiation the DNA in an epidermis cell undergoes fragmentation, which could result in the growth of tumor cells.

Altogether, these observations indicate that intraepithelial T cells and mature DC underwent apoptotic fragmentation among differentiating epithelial cells.

Certain refractory oxides and carbides undergo fragmentation during their evaporation by the electron beam, resulting in a stoichiometry that is different from the initial material.

The collapsing cloud region will undergo hierarchical fragmentation into ever smaller clumps, including a particularly dense form known as infrared dark clouds, eventually leading to the formation of up to several thousand stars.

Some species undergo fragmentation, a form of asexual reproduction, and this sometimes results in reefs composed of a single species.

However, the resulting product is so hindered that the species undergoes fragmentation, leading eventually to telechelic species.