Body size affects life history, the ecological niche of an organism and its interactions with other organisms. Resultantly, marked differences in body size between related organisms are often an indication of a species boundary. This is particularly evident in the Gehyra variegata species complex of geckos, which displays differential body sizes between genetically divergent species, but high l...

During the past four decades, several species of aphidophagous Coccinellidae became established in North America, including Coccinella septempunctata, Harmonia axyridis, Hippodamia variegata, and Propylea quatuordecimpunctata. After their establishment, unknown circumstances favoured a rapid increase in population densities and distribution of H. axyridis and C. septempunctata at localities hun...

Individual reproductive behaviour and survival of Bombina variegata was studied in a dynamic habitat with a variety of rain-filled ponds from 1990 to 1992. Most animals reached sexual maturity at the age of two years. Annual adult survival was at least 62 %. Individual females, on average, laid between 40 and 70 eggs per ?clutch?. While about 12 % of the breeding females spawned a second time w...

Nodal segments from six years old plants of Bauhinia variegata L. were cultured on Murashige and Skoogs (MS) medium supplemented with different concentration and combinations of BAP and IBA. Explants culture in MS basal medium supplemented with 5mg/1 BAP showed highest rate of shoot multiplication. When in vitro shoots were inoculated on the MS basal medium supplemented with IBA 2mg/l, profusse...

The taxonomy of central Australian populations of geckos of the genus Gehyra has been uncertain since chromosomal studies carried out in the 1970s and 1980s revealed considerable heterogeneity and apparently independent patterns of morphological and karyotypic diversity. Following detailed molecular genetic studies, species boundaries in this complex have become clearer and we here re-set the b...

Lectins are a structurally heterogeneous group of highly specific carbohydrate-binding proteins. Due to their great biotechnological potential, lectins are widely used in biomedical research. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the healing potential of the lectin of Bauhinia variegata (nBVL) and its recombinant isoform (rBVL-1). Following surgical creation of dorsal skin wounds, se...

Sergey V. Dmitriev, Avinash Khare, Panayotis G. Kevrekidis, Avadh Saxena and Ljupćo Hadžievski Institute for Metals Superplasticity Problems RAS, 39 Khalturina, Ufa 450001, Russia Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, Orissa 751005, India 3 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-4515, USA Center for Nonlinear Studies and Theoretical Division, Los A...

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Microtubules (MTs) are key components of the cytoskeleton for all eukaryotes and are vital for cellular processes such as mitotic spindle formation, intracellular transport, vesicle formation, cellular signaling, and migration. These functions depend on the dynamic nature of MTs, which arises from the polymerization and depolymerization events of individual heterodimers, made up of αand β-tubul...

The present study was carried out to evaluate the antidiabetic activity of Vinca rosea methanolic whole plant extracts in alloxan induced diabetic rats for 14 days. The methanolic whole plant extract at high dose (500 mg/kg) exhibited significant anti-hyperglycemic activity than whole plant extract at low dose (300 mg/kg) in diabetic rats. The methanolic extracts also showed improvement in para...