Hortensias (Hydrangea macrophylla L.) are well known as ornamental plants with their impressive flowers. Besides being an plant, some hortensia species contain constituents of nutritional and pharmaceutical interest. In this context, H. subsp. serrata contains dihydroisocoumarins (DHCs), in particular hydrangenol (HG) phyllodulcin (PD), which determine produce quality. For the successful cultiv...

Linnaeoideae is a small subfamily of erect or creeping shrubs to small trees in Caprifoliaceae that exhibits a wide disjunct distribution in Eurasia, North America and Mexico. Most taxa of the subfamily occur in eastern Asia and Mexico but the monospecific genus Linnaea has a circumboreal to north temperate distribution. In this study, we conducted phylogenetic and biogeographic analyses for Li...

Cuora amboinensis Cuora amboinensis amboinensis (Daudin, 1802) Cuora amboinensis couro (Schweigger, 1812) Cuora amboinensis kamaroma Rummler & Fritz, 1991 Cuora amboinensis lineata McCord & Philippen, 1998 Cuora flavomarginata Cuora flavomarginata flavomarginata (Gray, 1863) Cuora flavomarginata evelynae Ernst & Lovich, 1990 Cuora flavomarginata sinensis (Hsü, 1930) Cuora galbinifrons Cuora gal...

Screening of phenolic constituents in leaves of Cedrela serrata, Toona ciliata, Azadirachta indica and Melia azedarach was done by reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC). The phenolic compounds were identified by comparison with authentic standards. The phenolic acids identified in all plants leaves extract were gallic acid, protocatechuic acid, p-hydroxy benzoic acid, ...

AIM To determine the frequency of ciliary body or retinal breaks and retinal detachment in eyes with atopic cataract. METHODS The records of 106 eyes (74 patients) with atopic cataract that underwent cataract extraction were reviewed. The frequency of ciliary body or retinal breaks and retinal detachment was classified by their presence preoperatively and postoperatively, and by cataract type...

Survival of larvae of mud crab, Scylla serrata (Forsskal, 1775) is a persistent issue in the field of induced breeding of the species. A preliminary study was conducted on feeding regimes of laboratory reared larvae and juveniles of S. serrata. The results showed that the survival of the larvae fed with green water alone or green water with plankton and feed was not significantly different from...

Several atyid specimens were collected from hill streams in Guangdong Province, Southern China and Hong Kong during fieldtrips between 2004 and 2013. Some of these species, most of them also sold as ornamental pet shrimp in the international aquarium trade, proved to be new to science by morphological observation and analysis of mtDNA sequences. Three new species, Caridina logemanni n. sp., Car...

The nature and extent of mutational pleiotropy remain largely unknown, despite the central role that pleiotropy plays in many areas of biology, including human disease, agricultural production, and evolution. Here, we investigate the variation in 11,604 gene expression traits among 41 mutation accumulation (MA) lines of Drosophila serrata. We first confirmed that these expression phenotypes wer...