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placenta MAD-698 and the FPRL280 strains have been observed ( Thaler et al., 2012 ), leading to the assumption that there might be significant differences in either the genome, gene regulation, or in post-transcriptional mechanisms involved in the degradation process.

Therefore, we investigated seven melanin-related genes (including Bcpks13 , Bcbrn1 and Bcscd1 ) to verify their expression levels, and the RT-qPCR results showed that these genes showed a trend toward increased expression.

When pmrA was deleted, the bacteria showed a trend of increased toxicity and provided a survival advantage to bacteria in the host.

The plantation stands determined the sample size in all analyses, significance levels of 5% were used but considering the low number of replicates (i.e., 3) p -values lower than 0.1 were considered marginally significant and no corrections for multiple testing were performed.

globosa showed a decreasing trend with age (A1 and A2: 54.06%, A3: 44.47%, A4: 37.72%, and A5: 34.54%), meanwhile gender had no statistical correlation with the variation of the Malassezia composition at baseline.

Highly significant correlations were observed between various soil properties, enzyme activities, and diazotrophs community.

However, when microbial communities had adapted to the acidic and salty environmental condition, the Shannon index showed an increasing trend until the end of the fermentation ( Table 1 ).

casei showed a trend of inhibiting the damage of P. aeruginosa on the mitochondrial activity and cytoplasmic membrane integrity of sperm ( Figure 8 ).

Among the other prominent bacterial phyla, we found that the average relative richness of Patescibacteria , Bacteroidetes , and Actinobacteria showed a trend of gradual increase with increased N fertilizer inputs during the first year of the present study, and Patescibacteria and Actinobacteria showed significant positive correlations with soil NO 3 – .

The average relative richness of Actinobacteria , Bacteroidetes, and Patescibacteria gradually decreased with a prolongation of the treatment period ( Figure 4 ), with those of Bacteroidetes and Patescibacteria decreasing significantly and the decreasing trend observed for Bacteroidetes reaching an extremely significant level under continuous treatment with N 180 .

These MD simulation studies clarify the fact that the “handshake” mechanism of R 37 is highly significant to fine-tune the domain movement in a corroborated manner, which allows the DNA to bind with HapR.

Furthermore, the composition of surfactant highly significant changes rapidly with exercise in a manner related to fitness and training (Doyle et al., 1994 , 2000 ).

Acetobacter exhibited an increasing trend through time in both cellars, whereas the abundance of Oenococcus was relatively stable in ICVV but decreased over time in the case of FB.

Average (not displayed) and median 16S rRNA copies/μL generally displayed a weak trend when compared to filtered volume ( Figure 1 ).

Our results showed a trend of OTU richness from the surface to the abyssopelagic zone, with maximal OTU richness occurring at depths ranging from 100 to 200 m.

ANOVA also showed that linear coefficients of glucose and urea were highly significant with the P -value of 0.000.

This unpredictability is corroborated by our results as rRNA gene copy number-specific respiration in non-spiked samples showed a negative trend with increasing DOC concentrations, while under P addition a significant increase in rRNA gene copy number-specific respiration could be observed.

While sulfate-reducing bacteria may be significant Hg-methylators ( Compeau and Bartha, 1985 ; Kerin et al., 2006 ; Gilmour et al., 2018 ), it is unclear what role confirmation bias has had in their association with Hg cycling.

On the QTP, nitrogen deposition has been presenting an increasing trend gradually, ranging from 0.87 to 1.38 g N m –2 year –1 in the recent decade ( Lü and Tian, 2007 ).

∗ P < 0.05 and ∗∗ P < 0.01 were applied to be statistically significant and statistically highly significant, respectively.

MG-I gene copy number showed a decreasing trend in MIS 1, with three peaks at 35, 65 and 85 cmbsf.

However, there was an increasing trend of colonies, 2%, 26% and 89%, grown from Population 4 on days 10, 20 and 35, respectively, which showed deletion of the rpo N gene ( Figure 6B ).

As shown in Figures 5A,B , although the F v / F m ratio in all treatment groups showed a decreasing trend along with the increasing exposure concentrations, the F v / F m ratios of SR-induced cells (N – + NaCl, SHX + NaCl, N – + H 2 O 2 , and SHX + H 2 O 2 ) were higher than those of non-SR-induced cells (NaCl and H 2 O 2 ) at every corresponding concentration.

In detail, although Pichia showed an increasing trend in each group, the amplitude and rate of increase differed; the amplitude of increase was smallest and the rate was lowest in Group A and highest in Group C.

The abundance of Saccharomycopsis and Aspergillus showed a decreasing trend in all three groups, and the amount was similar, especially in Group A and B.