The diversity of ten populations representing Artemisia monosperma and A. judaica has been analyzed, based on assessment of morphological, karyological and molecular variations. The analysis of morphological variation and molecular polymorphism as revealed by RAPD, using the software NTSYSpc-2.01, confirmed the differentiation of A. monosperma and A. judaica as two distinct species and showed w...

Schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease, imposes substantial health and economic burdens on impoverished groups living in predominantly rural areas. Praziquantel (PZQ) is the only drug available for treatment, it not completely efficacious. Artemisia annua afra infusions were proposed to possess antischistosomal activities recently retracted publication of clinical trial, leading our inve...

This appendix provides additional methodological details not found in the text. The structure follows that of the “Methods” section (“Species and Sites,” “Plant Demography,” “Seed Demography,” “Population Models,” “Testing Predictions of Bet Hedging”), followed by two sections not identified separately in the text: “Generating Confidence Intervals for Growth Rates” and “Temporal Autocorrelation...