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There was a clear trend towards the inhibition of germination and seedling emergence with increasing rate of guano applied ( Figure 1 ).

platyacanthus , PC1 Ech shows a reduction in seedling size and turgency due to the stress treatment, but not age ( Figure 3F ); PC2 Ech shows no variation on the elongation of the apex due to age or treatment ( Figure 3G ); PC3 Ech shows a highly significant increase in the turgency of the hypocotyl due to age, which is stunted in the water stress treatment ( Figure 3H ).

Increases of both axial and radial diffusivity values, with λr changes (21.0%) being twice as much higher as λa (11.2%) in all-MS patients group, resulted in highly significant MD increases and FA reductions.

We observed a slight up-regulation of the TopFlash activity, marginally significant, when TRα1 was transfected together with β-catenin/Tcf4.

However, colonic sections from TSR2 mice showed a trend for lower counts (n = 20, vessels = 19.45±2.7) when compared to saline-treated colons (n = 16, vessels = 26.62±4.0) ( Figure S1 ).

Results showed that body size in the Oryzomyini tribe evolved according to phylogenetic relationships, with a positive trend, from a small sized ancestor.

The elevated macrofaunal densities at ampharetid bed habitats in New Zealand seeps (56,595 ind m −2 ), were significantly (or marginally significant) higher than all other sites compared here (although whale fall densities in the literature also reach these levels [e.g., [28] , Table S1 ).

placebo controls and also showed a trend towards increased HIV infection after vaccination in uncircumcised men with pre-existing Ad5 neutralizing antibodies [1] , [2] .

Results Feed intake and growth Feed intake (in g fish −1 d −1 , g DM fish −1 d −1 , % d −1 , and g DM kg −0.8 d −1 ), growth (in g d −1 and g kg −0.8 d −1 ), and feed gain ratio (FGR) were significantly affected by the P/E ratio and by the NPE source of the diet with a highly significant interaction between both factors ( Table 2 ).

For women from the UK [12] and Sweden [12] , [13] , eating fish once or twice per week compared to less than once per week was associated with borderline significant lower stroke incidences of 26% (UK) and 13% (Sweden).

Statistically significant differences indicated in red, near-significant trends indicated in blue.

p values below 0.05 (*) and 0.01 (**) were considered statistically significant and highly significant, respectively.

In this study we find a highly significant difference in the human immune response to two genetically distinct M. avium subspecies.

This inverse relationship was significant among ε4 carriers, and borderline significant among ε3/ε3 carriers [8] .

When focusing on multinucleated osteoclasts (>2 nuclei), no significant differences were observed between wild type and TTD mice although TTD cultures showed a significant trend towards a decline in multinucleated osteoclasts with aging ( Fig. 6E ).

a strong trend towards reduced genome sizes, a dramatical reduction of effective population size relative to environmental bacteria making purifying selection comparatively less efficient, extreme sequence divergence in proteins that mediate the interaction with the host environment such as outer surface proteins and secretion systems (reviewed in [11] ).

This sex by radiation effect was highly significant implying that females suffered disproportionately from high levels of radiation.

Strikingly, under these training conditions, only dSK − flies exhibited a highly significant 30 min memory level ( Figure 1C ) suggesting that mutants had a lower threshold for training acquisition and implying that the normal function of dSK is in negatively regulating short-term memory acquisition.

In this study, a significant trend in the slope of the relationship between upper temperature limits and rate of experimental warming across regions is observed as an overall lowering of the elevation of the relationships from warm to cold environments.

Publication bias As reflected by the funnel plot and the Egger's test, there was no publication bias in the genotypic models of CA versus CC and AA versus CC and dominant model ( P for Egger's test = 0.269, 0.198, and 0.187, respectively), whereas a marginally significant publication bias was seen in additive model ( P for Egger's test = 0.047).

The correlation between the numbers of hotspots per cell in different years was highly significant (correlation values between years ranged between 0.69–0.92), confirming the high recurrence of fires.

Wetland birds experienced the fastest community change of all breeding habitat assemblages but neither CTI nor CSI showed a significant trend.

P<0.05 was considered significant; 0.05≤p<0.10 was considered a significant trend.

Overall variation between the groups and the difference between 1,2-octanediol 8 hours/overnight and malathion was highly significant (<0.0005) in all major analyses.

The highest seroprevalence found in wild boar in 2010 could indicate an increasing trend in the prevalence of contact with MTBC in this species in the study area.