Flora da Bahia: Juncaceae

[Juliano Moreira and the Gazeta Medica da Bahia].

Recent studies of Juliano Moreira have emphasized his work in Rio de Janeiro (1903-1933), but the main objective of this article is to describe his contribution to the Gazeta Medica da Bahia in the period before that (1893-1903). It describes the evolution of this magazine, which served as a vehicle for original research of the Bahian Tropicalist School. It presents Moreira's output in the Gaze...

Ocular lesions in sickle cell disease patients from Bahia, Brazil Lesões oculares em pacientes com doença falciforme da Bahia, Brasil

Objective: The present study aims to describe ocular alterations in sickle cell disease patients in Bahia, a Northeast state, with the highest prevalence of the disease in Brazil. Methods: We carried out a cross-sectional study in a group of 146 (292 eyes) sickle cell disease patients (90 HBSS and 56 HBSC). Ophthalmologic examination including indirect binocular ophthalmoscopy was performed. Ex...

FIGHT-DANCING AND THE FESTIVAL TABUIK IN PARIAMAN, INDONESIA AND IEMANJá IN SALVADOR DA BAHIA, BRAZIL

Festivals bring people together in affirmations of community. This article looks at two festivals in coastal locations in Indonesia and Brazil with a close inspection of performances of fight-dancing included within both festivals. The improvisatory or choreographed organization of the fightdancing performances echoes the manner in which the festivals themselves are assembled. As these festival...

Bioactive secondary metabolites from Juncaceae species

The Juncaceae-Cyperaceae Interface: A Combined Plastid Sequence Analysis

Phylogenetic relationships of Juncaceae and related families of Cyperales were investigated using DNA sequence data from the plastid rps16 intron, trnL intron, and trnL–F intergenic spacer. Results using parsimony analysis of the aligned matrices find Juncaceae and Cyperaceae to be monophyletic families, which form a clade sister to a monophyletic Thurniaceae that includes Prionium (Prioniaceae...