Arnebia hispidissima roots have been used traditionally for the treatment of ulcers, boils, cuts, heart ailments and headache, fever, tongue and throat troubles. The purpose of this study was to characterize the most potent phytochemicals present in the ethyl acetate extract having anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial activity using carrageenan and CFA model. The observed results revealed that s...

Although sea hares are well known for acquiring algal secondary metabolites from their diet, the effects of diet on fitness and the susceptibility of sea hares to predators are poorly understood. We examined the effects of diet on the performance of the sea hare Aplysia parvula, and measured predation by reef fishes on sea hares raised on different seaweeds. Diet-switching, body size, the prese...

The active parts of 11 medicinal plants were analyzed for physico-chemical evaluation, phytochemical determination and antioxidant activity. The physico-chemical evaluation revealed that highest water soluble extractive was from Origanum vulgare (38%), highest chloroform extractive was from Psoralea corylifolia (21%); highest ethanolic extractive was that of Acorus calamus (11%) and the highest...

The base map of domains was drawn using NCBI Conserved Domains searches (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/cdd/wrpsb.cgi). Rep_2, Plasmid replication protein (pfam01719), Viral_Rep, Putative viral replication protein (pfam02407); Gemini_AL1, Geminivirus Rep catalytic domain (pfam00799); Gemini_AL1_M, Geminivirus rep protein central domain (pfam08283); RNA_helicase, RNA helicase (pfam00910)....

Four taxa of beetle cockroaches (Diploptera Saussure, 1864) from South China are described and illustrated, viz., two new species D. elliptica sp. n. and D. naevus sp. n., one new subspecies D. nigrescens guani subsp. n. and one widespread known species D. punctata (Eschscholtz, 1822). The genus and known species from around the world are discussed based on types and other specimens. D. pulchra...