PREMISE OF THE STUDY The Million Orchid Project at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is an initiative to propagate native orchids for reintroduction into Miami's urban landscapes. The aim of this study was to develop microsatellites for Encyclia tampensis and Cyrtopodium punctatum (Orchidaceae). METHODS AND RESULTS Ten microsatellites were developed for each species. For E. tampensis sampled ...

Interactions among native and invasive species may affect management outcomes goals. We implemented different mowing regimes to control the Solidago gigantea restore natural diversity, also examined interactions between a European competitor, Tanacetum vulgare in context of these regimes. Experimentally planted suppressed by 79% without management, suite reduced density 80–98% when was absent. ...

Tanacetum artemisioides, a pale green annual shrub with several branches from the woody rootstock, grows in different parts of Pakistan [1]. The genus Tanacetum has several important medicinal applications. Some of its species such as T. parthenium have been used traditionally in the treatment of migraine and arthritis; T. vulgare has beneficial effects in gastroduodenal diseases while T. micro...

This study describes the screening of extracts obtained from 19 species of plants used in Brazilian traditional medicine for treatment of a variety of diseases. The extracts were tested against axenic amastigote and promastigote forms of Leishmania (L.) amazonensis, and epimastigote forms of Trypanosoma cruzi in vitro at a concentration of 100 μg/ml. Baccharis trimera, Cymbopogon citratus, Matr...

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We investigated 42 patients who had unusual pruritic dermatitis associated with a specific clinical sign (comet sign) in 23 houses in southeastern France from May through September 2007. Pyemotes ventricosus, a parasite of the furniture beetle Anobium punctatum, was the cause of this condition.

In this study, water-distilled essential oils from the flowers of Tanacetum zahlbruckneri and flowers and stems of Tanacetum tabrisianum from Turkey were analysed by gas chromatography (GC) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The flower oil of T. zahlbruckneri was characterised by the sesquiterpenes germacrene D (29.7%) and spathulenol (12%). Flower (A) and stem (B) oil of T. tabr...

The development of the visual system in anamniotic vertebrates is a continual process, allowing for ontogenetic changes in retinal topography and spatial resolving power. We examined the number and distribution of retinal ganglion cells in wholemounted retinae throughout the protracted embryonic development (∼5 months) of a chondrichthyan, i.e. the brown-banded bamboo shark Chiloscyllium puncta...