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The correlation coefficients of GC12 and GC3s in MAC genomes of nine ciliates ranged from 0.445 to 0.781, showing extremely significant positive correlation.

However, we saw a clear trend in the increment of bioluminescent signal strength toward 48-h p.i., suggesting that SEn must undergo a certain degree of Fur-mediated de-repression.

However, Δ entB showed a trend of reduction in recovering from enriched splenic compartment, compared to the wildtype SEn at day 4 post infection ( Supplementary Figure 1 ).

From 4 to 6 weeks of age, the Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes ratio in FT Pekin ducks showed an increasing trend.

p < 0.05 and p < 0.01 were considered significant and extremely significant, respectively.

The relative abundance of Prevotellaceae_UCG-003 ( p = 0.09) showed a trend linear decrease with the increasing calcium propionate supplementation to the early lactation dairy cows.

Alpha Diversity of Soil Bacterial, Fungal, and Nematode Community Based on the morphological traits, yield, soil organic carbon, nitrogen, and soil enzyme activities, highly significant differences were observed in response to 200 kg N ha –1 under both traditional and straw returning pattern.

In this study, the salt content in the soil showed an increasing trend with continuous monocropping.

The effect of Ch:Sm liposomes was statistically significant, and while the result with Sm liposomes was not significant, a clear trend to smaller abscesses was observed ( Figure 3A ).

Overall, the richness and diversity of archaeal species showed an increasing trend, and weaning significantly affected the richness of archaeal species.

In other words, a decreasing trend can be observed for the efficacy of the CAP treatment as function of the number of CAP treatment cycles.

Similarly, the expression levels of the other EPSs-related genes, vpsT and vpsM , in WT and Δ relA showed a trend of first increasing and then decreasing, which was similar to the trend of biofilm formation and EPSs production in the culture medium under the same conditions.

Probability ( p ) values of <0.05 was considered statistically significant difference, p < 0.01 was considered highly significant difference.

Overall, this study confirmed the existence of a positive trend between water temperature and tlh with an upper threshold while also identifying a previously unobserved lower threshold. trh appeared to have a similar relationship with salinity and water temperature to tlh while tdh had a positive relationship with tissue temperature in warmer oysters (>20°C).

A decreasing trend in the incidence of NDs has been observed since 2010, although it is still higher than the average rate found in the EU/EEA ( European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2020 ).

P -values below 0.05 were considered significant (*), p < 0.01 ( ** ) highly significant.

The LX4 type (GI-19) was found to have the highest dN/dS ratios and has been the most dominant genotype since 1999, and the Taiwan-I type (GI-7) and New type (GVI-1) showed an increasing trend.

The relation between organic load rate (OLR) at the inlet and coulombic efficiency (CE; %) showed a decreasing trend, with values ranging from 8.8 to 53% (OLR from 2.0 to 16.4 g COD m –2 day –1 ) for IMDEA systems and from 0.8 to 2.5% (OLR from 41.9 to 45.6 g COD m –2 day –1 ) for Ørby systems.

KEGG pathway enrichment analysis showed that the T1 phase exhibited an increasing trend in the following pathways: “proteasome,” “biosynthesis of amino acids,” “carbon metabolism,” “estrogen signaling pathway,” and “measles” ( Figure 3C ).

The gene expression levels of six subclusters mainly had an increasing trend, while others had decreased trends.

Moreover, Uncultured_bacterium and Streptococcus showed a fluctuation of initial rising and then a decreasing trend.

Moreover, FFAs showed a trend of decrease after maternal betaine treatment ( Figure 3H ).

MoAST3 expression remained almost unchanged at cultivate stage prior to infection except for a significant increase at conidial and appressorial stages but downregulated and was in extremely significant low levels at earlier infection stage ( Figure 2D ).

SARS-CoV-2 infected animals showed a trend of increased ACE2 expression in the gut epithelium ( Figure 3A ) and this finding was confirmed by semi-quantification of mean fluorescent intensity values ( Figure 3B ).

It is highly significant to associate the taxonomic richness observed in the WWTP microbial communities with ambient nitrogen and carbon availability within the sewage system ( Johnson et al., 2015 ), biochemical presence ( Numberger et al., 2019 ), and possible anthropogenic factors ( Bojarczuk et al., 2018 ).