Barely Significant

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Of the 19 questions we included in the final PRE tool, 11 showed statistical significance in separating known invasive from non-invasive species, four were the result of merging two similar questions, where both were significant or near significant (e.g., different methods of vegetative reproduction, various biotic and abiotic propagule dispersal mechanisms), one was the result of merging four similar questions (human-mediated propagule dispersal) that were significant or nearly significant ( S1 Table ).
However, Bremer values for Lophostoma and Phyllostomus clade were relatively low (3), and the genus Phyllostomus clade was the lowest possible (1), but for a branch with a small number of characters parsimony-informative since the karyotypes are almost identical and similar to the primitive Phyllostomidae karyotype (meaning that the chromosome traits are plesiomorphic and are not taken into account in the cladistics analysis), even a low Bremer may be significant [ 54 ], since this test is qualitative and chromosomal rearrangements are considered to be rare events in the genome [ 55 ].
A meta-analysis of 22 studies of preventive zinc supplementation provided either as tablets or syrup, including 13 studies that provided 10 mg supplemental zinc, found a small, marginally significant, positive effect of zinc on change in weight-for-height z-score [ 6 ].