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UCFL-348 ( p = 0.03). The R 2 -values for the curves fitted with a power-law distribution were
significantly higher (0.55-0.98), and statistically significant, while R 2 -values for the curves fitted
with a logarithmic distribution were comparable to the exponential distributions, and, generally,
statistically insignificant ( p -values > 0.05).

In AGW, R 2 -values for all exponential distribution fits were above 0.90, and, generally,
statistically significant ( p -values < 0.05). R 2 -values for all power law distributions were also
good ( R 2 ≥ 0.83) and statistically significant with the exception of UCFL-71( p = 0.09), while R 2 -
values for the curves fitted with logarithmical distribution were generally weak and statistically
insignificant for most of the strains.

From this, we concluded that the power-law distribution described best the variations of

Α

within the strains in both solutions, although the exponential distribution of

Α values was

equally well capable of describing the distributions of

Α values in AGW.