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The phrase "a decrease in survival" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing biological, ecological, or health-related topics where survival rates or chances are being analyzed or reported.
Example: "The study revealed a significant decrease in survival among the affected species due to habitat loss."
Alternatives: "a decline in survival" or "a reduction in survival".
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For the Thai orchid Doritis pulcherrima, it was shown that seeds exposed to PVS2 solution for 50 min had the highest germination rate, with longer or shorter exposure times resulting in a decrease in survival (Thammasiri, 2000).
Any increase or decrease in salinity from this value resulted in a decrease in survival, with the lowest salinity tested (30‰) having a significantly negative effect on survival (58.4%) when compared to the control.
Moreover, intrasplenic injection of the ST3Gal III transfected cells into athymic nude mice showed a decrease in survival and higher metastasis formation when compared to the mock cells.
Thus, the overexpression of ST3Gal III in MDAPanc-28 cells, which lead to a higher expression of SLex and a higher adhesion and migration, could be directly correlated with a decrease in survival when injected in nude mice.
Also under these conditions we detected a decrease in survival and an increase in malformations that was correlated with a drop in the abundance of the fourteen transcripts (Fig. S2).
The animals fed HT115 and grown at 25°C did have a decrease in survival rate when exposed to four days of anoxia in comparison to three days of anoxia, however they still survived at a significantly higher rate in comparison to animals grown at 20°C.
For mutant strains that have moderate sensitivity to agents that induce DSB damage (such as those within the CCR4 damage response pathway), a dose of 50 µg/ml was required to see a decrease in survival for undiluted cells, (i.e., similar to the conditions expected for screening the deletion collection directly from the arrayed 96 well plate format).
Often these patients have severe neurologic symptoms with a decrease in survival and quality of life.
The increase of one physical parameter at a time led to a decrease in survival rate.
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In contrast with laboratory studies that reported a decrease in fish survival, the survival of the herring larvae in situ was significantly enhanced by 19 ± 2%.
A decrease in the survival probability of first-year ice is recognizable at all points, but significant only in the Kara Sea, East Siberian Sea and western Laptev Sea (Table S1).
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