The penultimate glaciation (marine isotope stage (MIS) 6) is considered regionally extreme compared to the last glacial maximum, in which European ice sheets had a vast areal extent. In contrast deglaciation (19–7 ka), (140–130 ka) hosts one of most rapid oceanographic changes late Pleistocene. this study, we reconstructed near-surface and thermocline central northeast Atlantic by analyzing sed...

Stachys lavandulifolia is used as the herbal tea and its wide and potent medical effects have been reported for the extract in animal studies. This study aimed to find the safety profile of the extract to find the appropriate doses for further human studies. The aerial parts of the plant were air-dried and the hydroalcoholic extract was obtained and concentrated by percolation method with 140 m...

The present study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of wood betony (WB), Stachys lavandulifolia extract on growth performance and some immune responses in common carp, Cyprinus carpio. Different concentrations of the WB extract 0, 2, 4 and 8% (g per 100 g of diet) were added to commercial diet. Each treatment was randomly assigned to triplicate groups of fish having average initial weight ...

Concerning four Stachys spp. (Lamiaceae) from the Oltenia flora, paper highlights polyphenolic content of aerial parts through high-performance thin-layer chromatography coupled with photodensitometry. Chlorogenic acid (CA) was identified and quantified in all 20% methanolic extracts Stachydisherba. The highest CA amount determined S. recta (59.88 mg%), followed by sylvatica (32.90 officinalis ...

The Luciolinae firefly genus Pyrophanes is redescribed and a key is provided for 7 species, viz. appendiculata Olivier, beccarii Olivier, quadrimaculata Olivier, semilimbata (Olivier) and similis Olivier, with Py. elongata Ballantyne sp. nov. and Py. similisimma Ballantyne sp. nov. described as new. Macropterous females associated for several species have 2 pairs of broad bursa plates. Followin...

Three S-allele-associated proteins (S-proteins) of Petunia inflata, a species with gametophytic self-incompatibility, were previously found to share sequence similarity with two fungal ribonucleases, RNase T(2) and RNase Rh. In this study, the S-proteins from P. inflata plants of S(1)S(2) and S(2)S(3) genotypes were purified to homogeneity by gel filtration and cation-exchange chromatography, a...