Lectins are one of several types of biological resources considered as potential medicinal importance for therapeutic agents. The present review deals with variety, sugar specificity and the medicinal importance of lectins from freshwater and marine invertebrates. The potent medicinal usage of the various types of the lectins from freshwater and marine non-chordates, which are comparatively wel...

Doubly Uniparental Inheritance (DUI) is considered one of the major exceptions to common rules eukaryotic cell biology and germline formation. DUI known in bivalves, which belong phylum Mollusca; conversely, no evidence was found some gastropod species. Investigating presence Nemertea particular interest given fact that these spiralian animals are suggested be a sister group Neotrochozoa (i.e.,...

Fauna Europaea provides a public web-service with an index of scientific names (including important synonyms) of all living European land and freshwater animals, their geographical distribution at country level (up to the Urals, excluding the Caucasus region), and some additional information. The Fauna Europaea project covers about 230,000 taxonomic names, including 130,000 accepted species and...