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In the 12 C DIC - and 13 C DIC -amended core and slurry incubations, methane concentrations did not show a clear trend over time.

Conclusion We can partially reject our initial hypothesis since this study demonstrated that fermentation parameters are generally not affected by the type of forage preparation with the exception of butyrate and a small trend in methane production.

For the prokaryotic dataset, the distances to the most mature sample exhibited a decreasing trend over time (Figure 3D ).

Furthermore, the interaction effect among Jatropha oil cake, Karanja oil cake, and Dextrose was highly significant in enhancing the DPA production by P. variotii .

CC30 and CC45 showed greater adhesion to collagen and CC8 showed a trend towards higher rate of intracellular persistence in endothelial cells.

The difference of Firmicutes / Bacteroidetes between group G ( p = 0.078) and M ( p = 0.067) was nearly significant.

Gene categories that were significant after correction with the conservative Bonferroni correction were considered highly significant, while those significant after the less conservative Benjamini-Hochberg test were considered significant.

Rhodobacteraceae was abundant in rearing water at all tested growth stages, whereas its relative abundance displayed a decreasing trend at mysis and postlarva stages ( Figure 7 ).

In contrast, a clear trend in diversity was observed in AL and AH reactors, where diversity was higher in suspension than anode samples for all the sampling periods except day 70 ( Table 1 ).

This suggests that there may be significant changes in RNA unrelated to the growth rate.

The network analyses revealed highly significant correlations between the occurrences of particular foraminiferal and bacterial OTUs (Figure S6 ).

Another SNP in NRAMP1 showed a trend toward an association.

The deletion of iscR showed a trend to attenuate the bacterial virulence; however, the difference did not reach statistical significance.

sake despite a clear trend is observed, and just one gene significative for H. uvarum .

We estimated the cytosolic concentration of CHMO, but the propagated error from the estimated volume did not allow the identification of a significant trend (see Figure 2C ); the mean value was still used for calculations.

For all models a clear trend was the difference in soil type, with the sand-based soil having either higher weights, greater emergence, or lower disease indices; while lowest weights and less emergence, as well as higher disease indices were for loam soil and low temperature.

The possible ability of Type I CRISPR-Cas to effect DNA repair would be highly significant for B. fragilis , which is very susceptible to the DNA-damaging properties of oxygen exposure.

Real-time PCR showed that only three OsCIPKs were up-regulated, and two of them exhibited highly significant differences compared to the mock rice, suggesting that OsCIPK29 and OsCIPK30 might be involved in the host response to RSV infection ( Figure 4 ).

Expression of pilS and traL was not significantly up-regulated at this time point, but an increasing trend was seen. traI did not show up-regulation at this time point.

The levels of MMP9 and MMP12 showed a trend toward increase (Figure 4A ).

dorsalis showed an increasing trend after the leafhoppers left the virus-infected rice plants (Figure 2 ).

A P -value of <0.05 was defined as statistically significant, and P -value of <0.01 was defined as extremely significant.

We found a highly significant correlation between protist and bacterial alpha-diversity measures across termite host species using Shannon's H (Figure 2 , Pearson's product-moment correlation P = 1.43 × 10 −5 , r 2 = 0.51) as well as between the total number of protist and bacterial taxa (OTUs Figure S2A , Pearson's product-moment correlation: P < 0.05, r 2 = 0.19).

There is an increasing trend toward understanding the impact of non- Saccharomyces yeasts on the winemaking process.

Our study found a significantly increased risk of IBS, functional dyspepsia, and GERD (borderline significant) after infection with B. coli .