Additional Articles Included in the Meta-Analysis That Were Not Retrieved by Search String

Appendix 1. Additional articles included in meta-analysis that were not retrieved by search string as well as the list of all articles examined in qualitative and quantitative meta-analysis.

Additional articles included in the meta-analysis that were not retrieved by search string (n = 17)

(Dawes et al. 1974; Rosell and Srivastava 1985; Kopczak et al. 1991; Hurtadoponce 1995; Navarro-Angulo and Robledo 1999; Ramos et al. 2000; Lourenço et al. 2002; Orduna-Rojas et al. 2002; Zubia et al. 2003; Boulus et al. 2007; Chakraborty and Santra 2008; Angell et al. 2012; Pereira et al. 2012a; Westermeier et al. 2012; Cazon et al. 2014; Liu et al. 2014; Neveux et al. 2014)

Articles included in qualitative meta-analysis only (n = 31)

(Kopczak et al. 1991; Mcglathery 1992; Vergara and Niell 1993, 1995; Hernandez 1996; Kennish 1997; Rico and Fernandez 1997; Sturm and Horn 1998; Jayasankar and Kulandaivelu 1999; Mercado et al. 1999; Costanzo et al. 2000; Bischof et al. 2006; Gordillo et al. 2006; Dworjanyn et al. 2007; Margret et al. 2008; Martins et al. 2008; Zou and Gao 2009; Martins et al. 2011; Ramlov et al. 2011; Moreda-Pineiro et al. 2012; Romaris-Hortas et al. 2012; Yildiz et al. 2012; Ben Chekroun et al. 2013; Garcia-Sartal et al. 2013; Gouveia et al. 2013; Kim et al. 2013; Ribeiro et al. 2013; Kumari et al. 2014; Misurcova et al. 2014; Yildiz et al. 2014; Zou and Gao 2014)

Articles included in quantitative and qualitative meta-analysis (n = 205)

(Dawes et al. 1974; Horn and Neighbors 1984; Rosell and Srivastava 1985; Buchsbaum et al. 1991; Duffy and Hay 1991; Neighbors and Horn 1991; Mercer et al. 1993; Mouradigivernaud et al. 1993; Lightfoot and Raghavan 1994; Mai et al. 1994; Figueroa et al. 1995; Gomez and Westermeier 1995; Hurtadoponce 1995; Vergara et al. 1995; Bolser and Hay 1996; Castro-Gonzalez et al. 1996; Cronin and Hay 1996c, a, b; Kaehler and Kennish 1996; McGlathery et al. 1996; Rico and Fernandez 1996; Shpigel et al. 1996; Smit et al. 1996; Westermeier and Gomez 1996; Chan et al. 1997; Davies et al. 1997; Renaud et al. 1997; Robledo and Pelegrin 1997; Wahbeh 1997; Foster and Hodgson 1998; Gojon-Baez et al. 1998; Gomez et al. 1998; Gomez and Wiencke 1998; Rijstenbil et al. 1998; Ventura and Castanon 1998; Andria et al. 1999; Bautista-Teruel and Millamena 1999; Galland-Irmouli et al. 1999; Gunnarsson et al. 1999; McGlathery and Pedersen 1999; Naldi and Wheeler 1999; Navarro-Angulo and Robledo 1999; Shpigel et al. 1999; Cruz-Rivera and Hay 2000; Norziah and Ching 2000; Ramos et al. 2000; Rosen et al. 2000; Vadas et al. 2000; Wong and Cheung 2000; Bautista-Teruel et al. 2001; Boarder and Shpigel 2001; Cruz-Rivera and Hay 2001; Gordillo et al. 2001; Granado and Caballero 2001; Liu and Dong 2001; Ruperez and Saura-Calixto 2001; Wong and Cheung 2001a; Wong and Cheung 2001b; Goni et al. 2002; Lourenço et al. 2002; Martinez and Rico 2002; Orduna-Rojas et al. 2002; Dere et al. 2003; Marrion et al. 2003; McDermid and Stuercke 2003; Neori et al. 2003; Reyes and Fermin 2003; Risso et al. 2003; Sanchez-Machado et al. 2003; Schuenhoff et al. 2003; Zubia et al. 2003; Barile et al. 2004; Hemmi and Jormalainen 2004; Rodde et al. 2004; Sanchez-Machado et al. 2004; Aguilera-Morales et al. 2005; Barbarino and Lourenco 2005; Fayaz et al. 2005; Israel et al. 2005; Mamelona and Pelletier 2005; Marrion et al. 2005; Peters et al. 2005; Viera et al. 2005; Freile-Pelegrin and Robledo 2006; Jacquin et al. 2006; Lartigue and Sherman 2006; Marinho-Soriano et al. 2006; Ortiz et al. 2006; Renaud and Luong-Van 2006; Valente et al. 2006; Boulus et al. 2007; Cook and Kelly 2007; Dawczynski et al. 2007; Hong et al. 2007; Mallo et al. 2007; Mamatha et al. 2007; Marsham et al. 2007; McDermid et al. 2007; Wang et al. 2007; Chakraborty and Santra 2008; Cho et al. 2008; Hwang et al. 2008; Msuya and Neori 2008; Nelson et al. 2008; Polat and Ozogul 2008; Yu and Yang 2008; Banerjee et al. 2009; Cruz-Suarez et al. 2009; de Oliveira et al. 2009; Hernandez-Carmona et al. 2009; Hernandez et al. 2009; Matanjun et al. 2009; Ortiz et al. 2009; Cho et al. 2010; Cirik et al. 2010; Cofrades et al. 2010; Cruz-Suarez et al. 2010; Denis et al. 2010; Gomez-Ordonez et al. 2010; Gressler et al. 2010; Ktita et al. 2010; Kumar et al. 2010; Misurcova et al. 2010; Msuya and Neori 2010; Schaal et al. 2010; Smith et al. 2010; Taboada et al. 2010; Zhang et al. 2010; Akkoz et al. 2011; Asino et al. 2011; Badrinathan et al. 2011; Chen 2011; Diniz et al. 2011; Duarte et al. 2011; Frikha et al. 2011; Gressler et al. 2011; Murakami et al. 2011; Nguyen et al. 2011; Patarra et al. 2011; Pato et al. 2011; Pena-Rodriguez et al. 2011; Perez-Estrada et al. 2011; Senthil et al. 2011; Viera et al. 2011; Xu et al. 2011; Yaich et al. 2011; Yildiz et al. 2011; Al-Harthi and El-Deek 2012; Ambreen et al. 2012; Angell et al. 2012; Bilbao et al. 2012; Cho and Kim 2012; Eddy et al. 2012; El Din and El-Sherif 2012; Hofmann et al. 2012; Kandasamy et al. 2012; Madden et al. 2012; Nielsen et al. 2012; Pereira et al. 2012a; Pereira et al. 2012b; Pise et al. 2012; Prado et al. 2012; Rohani-Ghadikolaei et al. 2012; Suarez-Alvarez et al. 2012; Sun et al. 2012; Tabarsa et al. 2012a; Tabarsa et al. 2012b; Westermeier et al. 2012; Borell et al. 2013; Francavilla et al. 2013; Jard et al. 2013; Khairy and El-Shafay 2013; Marinho et al. 2013; Mulvaney et al. 2013; Munier et al. 2013; Peng et al. 2013; Polat and Ozogul 2013; Shuuluka et al. 2013; Stadtlander et al. 2013; Taboada et al. 2013; Teichberg et al. 2013; Trigui et al. 2013; Uslu et al. 2013; Wassef et al. 2013; Yu et al. 2013; Angell et al. 2014; Astorga-Espana and Mansilla 2014; Baghel et al. 2014; Baumgartner et al. 2014; Blanco-Pascual et al. 2014; Cazon et al. 2014; Cian et al. 2014; Duarte et al. 2014; Hafezieh et al. 2014; Johnson et al. 2014; Liu et al. 2014; Manns et al. 2014; Neveux et al. 2014; O'Mahoney et al. 2014; Orozco et al. 2014; Paiva et al. 2014; Turan and Tekogul 2014; You et al. 2014; Yu et al. 2014)

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