Signatures of local adaptation have been found at all life stages in plants. Yet, the contribution later plant is rarely disentangled from influence early-life stages. Here, we investigate direct adult to climate two subspecies snapdragon plants (Antirrhinum majus), while growth conditions homogenized We compared genetic variation fitness proxies (i.e. flowering, number flowers and survival) ph...

Extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma (ESMC) is a rare tumor seen more often in men. It is seen to arise from soft tissue of lower extremity or buttocks. We report a case of soft tissue swelling of left labium majus in a 66-year-old female. Patient underwent wide excision with uneventful postoperative course. Histopathology of specimen confirmed it to be ESMC. Patient refused adjuvant therapy. Fo...

History.?Married?mother of 5 children?last child aged 3 years?all the children are alive and all the labours were normal. For 15 years the patient has had occasional temperature at night. Sometimes she used to have swelling of the right leg which lasted for about 10 or 15 days. For the past 12 years she noticed thickening of her left labium majus, the swelling gradually becoming bigger and bigg...

The extremely homogeneous organization of the transposon family Tam3 in Antirrhinum majus is in sharp contrast to the heterogeneity of the copies constituting many other transposon families. To address the issue of the Tam3 structural uniformity, we examined two possibilities: (1) recent invasion of Tam3 and (2) failure of gap repair, which is involved in conversion from autonomous forms to def...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Fifty-two populations were sampled in order to establish the taxonomic delimitation and relationships of eight taxa belonging to the A. majus L. and A. siculum Miller groups. METHODS Data on 13 allozyme loci were recorded after extraction of fresh leaves and electrophoresis on horizontal 10% starch gels. KEY RESULTS Genetic distances between conspecific populations are l...

The mechanisms that regulate mitochondrial inheritance are not yet clear, even though it is 100 years since the first description of non-Mendelian genetics. Here, we quantified the copy numbers of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in the gametic cells of angiosperm species. We demonstrate that each egg cell from Arabidopsis thaliana, Antirrhinum majus, and Nicotiana tabacum possesses 59.0, 42.7, and 73...

Latex vacuoles o f Chelidonium majus (Papaveraceae) naturally sequester protoberberine and benzophenanthridine alkaloids. Isolated vesicles take up a number o f other heterologous alkaloids, such as 9,10-dihydroergocryptine, vinblastine, strychnine, nicotine, colchicine, lupanine, and 13-hydroxylupanine, with a strong preference for the indole alkaloids and for nicotine. Kinetic data clearly sh...