Abstract Cockscomb ( Сelosia cristata (L.) Kuntze) is a well-known decorative plant belonging to the Amaranthaceae L. family. It used in South East Asia folk medicine as an anesthetic, anti-microbial, hemostatic, tonic and anti-inflammatory drug. Some 11 12 fatty acids have been identified cockscomb roots, leaves, stem, herb, flowers seeds, their quantitative content has determined by gas chrom...

Plastic debris is globally found around the world and remote Arctic no exception. true seals are sentinel species of marine pollution represent link between food webs apex predators like polar bears humans. With regard to seals, ingested macroplastics have never been reported in an species. We harvested 10 harp Pagophilus groenlandicus 8 hooded Cystophora cristata from breeding grounds pack ice...

Natural hybridization between closely related species in sympatry is an evolutionary process that common orchids. Once seen as a threat to parent species, interspecific genetic change increasingly viewed source of novel variation some ecological contexts. Terrestrial fringed orchids the genus Platanthera contain several clades with high compatibility among and many putative hybrids. We used bia...