The evolution of sex determination has long fascinated biologists, as it has paramount consequences for the evolution of a multitude of traits, from sex allocation to speciation and extinction. Explaining the diversity of sex-determining systems found in vertebrates (genotypic or GSD and temperature-dependent or TSD) requires a comprehensive and integrative examination from both a functional an...

White savory(Satureja mutica Fisch & C.A.Mey.) is one of the most widely used medicinal plants in food processing, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industry due to the strongly scented and presence of phenolic compounds such as carvacrol and thymol. This experiment was carried out to evaluate the levels of inter and intra-populations variability of essential oil compositions of S. mutica grown in no...

BACKGROUND The use of antioxidants in the treatment of infertility has been suggested and recent studies have indicated that oral administration of Satureja Khuzestanica essential oil (SKEO) to rats induces significant antioxidative effects. OBJECTIVE This systematic review was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of antioxidants in infertility and also to assess the effectiveness of Satur...

Four compounds beta-sitosterol, beta-sitosterol-3-O-beta-d-glucopyranoside, ursolic acid and 4',5,6-trihydroxy-3', 7-dimethoxyflavone were characterized from the dichloromethane extract of the aerial parts of Satureja khuzistanica (Lamiaceae), a native medicinal plant growing in Iran, on the basis of spectral analysis and comparing with the data in literature. The natural occurrence of these co...

As we know, Savory herb is one of the most important medicinal plants of Iran that belongs to Lamiaceae family which about 284 species have been identified in the world. Iran, as one of the most important repositories of Savory germplasm in the world, has about 16 species of Satureja genus. Because of so many useful medicinal properties of Savory, this plant has been considered in many recent s...

background: many members of the genus satureja l. (lamiaceae) have interesting pharmacological and biological properties. objective: in this research, major essential oil (eo) compositions, rosmarinic acid (ra) content, and antioxidant and antibacterial properties of the leaf extracts of nine satureja species (s. bachtiarica, s. mutica, s. sahandica, s. macrantha, s. atropatana, s. edmondi, s. ...

The genus Satureja is represented by fifteen species of which five are endemic and Satureja pilosa and S. icarica have recently been found as new records for Turkey. Aerial parts of the Satureja pilosa, S. icarica, S. boissieri and S. coerulea collected from different localities in Turkey were subjected to hydrodistillation to yield essential oils which were subsequently analysed by GC and GC/M...

The purpose of this study was to compare the essential oil profiles of four South-Croatian Satureja species, as determined by GC/FID and GC/MS, with their DNA sequences for an internal transcribed spacer (ITS1-5.8S-ITS2) of the nuclear ribosomal DNA. A phylogenetic analysis showed that S. montana and S. cuneifolia, characterized by a similar essential oil composition, rich in the monoterpene hy...