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Three-way ANOVA confirmed highly significant effects of both P source and P concentration, as well as their interaction (see, respectively, factors M and P in Table 3 ).

A clear trend of the use of cofactors in relation to the presence of ethanol in the culture medium could not be found ( Figure 6B ).

Interestingly, the comparison among the taxa belonging to the most representative Phyla of the samples by NMDS showed a strong trend to group by Lake (Figure 5A ) due to a clearly higher abundance of phototrophic microorganisms in LN (Figure 5B ) than in LE.

These values show evidence of the influence of climatic changes on the hydrological characteristics of the study area, and indicate a decreasing trend in the streamflow of the Maipo River during the last 20 years.

There were no significant differences in growth rate associated with habitat of origin (Origin effect, Table 2B ), and although there was a marginally significant Origin ∗ Media effect ( Table 2B ), contrasts within this effect detected no habitat of origin-specific differences in responses to the same media.

This absence of mean differences and differences in variability among habitats of origin does not reflect low overall variation in growth rate; in fact, there were highly significant differences among isolates within habitats of origin in their overall and media-specific growth (Isolate(Origin) [mean] and Isolate ∗ Media(Origin) [mean] effects, Table 2A ).

Differences in these two studies suggests that there is a dynamic exchange between eelgrass leaf microbiomes and the water column when plants are submerged, and that leaf microbiomes may be significant sources of organisms to local bacterioplankton.

The DEGs number and corrected P -values results indicated that DEGs in the pathways of ABC transporters (ko02010) and glycine, serine, and threonine metabolism (ko00260) play extremely significant roles under salt stress.

Discussion Variations in Diversity and Abundance of the PA and FL Bacterial Communities in the NBT Water Column In this study, the relative abundance of PA bacteria showed an increasing trend with depth ( Figure 1D ), indicating the potentially increasing ecological significance of PA bacterial communities in the deep ocean comparing to shallower depths.

We found highly significant genetic differentiation and marginal gene-flow across strains from sympatric Smc1 and Smc2 lineages, as well as highly significant differences in the resistance profiles of S. maltophilia sensu lato isolates vs.

Despite the similar glycan profiles revealed by the lectin array, we were able to identify a subset of candidate lectins with small but marginally significant fold-change differences in binding among the two tested algal species for further analysis.

A clear trend toward increasing furosine concentrations with increasing temperature and time of treatment was noted, although the amount of furosine found in raw milk differed significantly from the amount found in HTST-treated DHM at 70°C for 15, 20 and 25 and at 72°C for 15 and 25 s (Table 3 ).

The earliest report of the ACME element in Asia was in Japan, 2007 ( Shibuya et al., 2008 ), and an increasing trend was observed afterward ( Onishi et al., 2013 ; Urushibara et al., 2016 ; Aung et al., 2017 ).

Intriguingly, an increasing trend of antimicrobial activities was recorded for the metabolites extracted from both the fermentation states.

Overall, the rhizosphere microbiomes showed a trend for higher induction of phenolic compounds production than the bulk soil microbiome ( Table 1 ).

A clear trend over time concerning the responses of bacterial and fungal communities to straw application was not evident.

The relationship between the level of sIgA to the ages of these children were analyzed, and a negative trend was noted in Figure 3B .

There has been an increasing trend of antimicrobial resistance in Campylobacter isolated within the food chain and humans in recent years (Melero et al., 2012 ; Piccirillo et al., 2013 ; Wieczorek et al., 2013b ; Ma et al., 2014 ; Abdollahpour et al., 2015 ).

rhamnosus GR-1 or milk was well tolerated and showed a trend to lowering uptake of heavy metals, but it was not statistically significant ( Bisanz et al., 2014 ).

An increasing trend of binding capacity was observed from the AFB1 concentration of 2–6 μg/mL for all Lcs cell components.

P -values ≤ 0.05 were considered as significant ( ∗ ) and P -values ≤ 0.005 ( ∗∗ ) were considered as highly significant.

Aqueous geochemistry across site locations follows a clear trend of higher ion concentrations found in spring fluids, followed by melt pools, aufeis, and finally glacier samples.

An increasing trend was observed for Alphaproteobacteria , Deltaproteobacteria , and Chloroflexi from north to south in the study area, but an opposite trend for Actinobacteria , Acidobacteira , and Firmicutes was observed.

We present that there is a clearly significant increase in the mite infestation in the eyelashes of chronic blepharitis compared to healthy subjects.

We detected a significant trend for higher viral loads and higher proportion of homosexual/bisexual men among subjects infected with B PANDEMIC relative to B CAR strains in French Guiana.