Five medicinal plants of Pakistan were investigated for their antinociceptive, anti-inflammatory, antidepressant, and anticoagulant potential. Antinociceptive activity was estimated by hot plate and writhing assay. In hot plate assay, Quercus dilatata (52.2%) and Hedera nepalensis (59.1%) showed moderate while Withania coagulans (65.3%) displayed a significant reduction in pain. On the other ha...

Previously funded National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Species of Concern (SOC) work on Montipora dilatata resolved four distinct genetic groups of Montipora in Hawaii: I) M. patula/M. verilli, II) M. incrassata, III) M. capitata, and IV) M. dilatata/M. turgescens/M. flabellata, with mitochondrial and nuclear markers capable of resolving ~ 1 MY differences (Forsman et al. 2009). Further wor...

A közlemény számos új adatot mutat be a Dél-Nyírség páfrányflórájához, valamint áttekinti területről rendelkezésre álló irodalmi és herbáriumi adatokat. vizsgált 19 Pteridopsida fajt sikerült kimutatni. gímpáfrány (Asplenium scolopendrium) díszes vesepáfrány (Polystichum setiferum) eddig teljes Nyírségense területéről ismeretlen volt. Dél-Nyírségre nézve számít újnak széles pajzsika (Dryopteris...

Evolutionary transitions between different modes of development in marine invertebrates are thought to be biased toward the loss of feeding larvae. Because the morphology of feeding larvae is complex and nonfeeding larvae or encapsulated embryos with benthic development often have simplified morphologies, it is presumed to be easier to lose a larval stage than to reacquire it. Some authors have...

Faced with environmental stress, the females of many marine invertebrate species can isolate their brood chambers from the external environment for prolonged periods. Although brood chambers have therefore typically been assumed to protect the brooded embryos, the effects of continued isolation on conditions within brood chambers have not been examined. In the present research, we investigated ...

It has been noted that spore characters are diagnostic for separating various North American taxa of Dryopteris (Crane, 1953) .. Professor Irene Manton (see Manton, 1950), University of Leeds, and Dr. Stanley Walker, University of Liverpool, who have worked on the cytology of diploid and tetraploid specimens of British and European D. dilatata (Hoffm.) A. Gray, report it difficult to distinguis...

Image by J. E. Maragos. Foreground: M. capitata; above: M. dilatata; above, lower left: invasive algae (Kappaphycus/Eucheuma spp.) 2 Executive summary Montipora dilatata is considered to be one of the rarest corals known. Thought to be endemic to Hawaii, only a few colonies have ever been found despite extensive surveys. Endangered species status would have major conservation implications; howe...