Leidya infelix, new species, is described as a parasite of the grapsid crab Pachygrapsus crassipes Randall from the west coast of Baja California, Mexico. Another male belonging to the genus Leidya from the same host and nearly the same locality may belong to the same species, but that is not certain. A lone immature female bopyrid assignable to the genus Lobocepon is recorded as a parasite of ...

Expressed sequence tag (EST)-derived simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers could enrich the current resource of molecular markers. In this study, microsatellite markers were developed for Dendrobium nobile Lindl. by mining the ESTs. Twenty-eight EST-SSRs amplified 2 to 6 nucleotide repeats with a mean number of 2.82 alleles per locus. The observed and expected heterozygosities per locus ranged f...

The ancestral knowledge of the community Colón Putumayo unfolds in several dimensions that allow us to recognise ethnomedicinal properties plants. research focused on systematising ethnobotanical and use plants as alternatives for treating illnesses. A cross-sectional study was carried out through semi-structured questionnaires 100 inhabitants Colón. We found 38 plant species catalogued 18 bota...

Chamaemelum nobile (Asteraceae) commonly known as 'Roman chamomile' is a medicinal plant used for numerous diseases in traditional medicine, although its anticancer activity is unknown. The present study was carried out to investigate the anticancer as well as apoptotic activity of ethyl acetate fraction of C. nobile on different cancerous cell lines. The cells were treated with varying concent...

Chamaemelum nobile (Asteraceae) commonly known as 'Roman chamomile' is a medicinal plant used for numerous diseases in traditional medicine, although its anticancer activity is unknown. The present study was carried out to investigate the anticancer as well as apoptotic activity of ethyl acetate fraction of C. nobile on different cancerous cell lines. The cells were treated with varying concent...

After a protracted 14-year debate, Republic Act 10354, ‘The Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012’ (hereby referred to as The Law) was passed on 17 January 2013. In response to severe assaults on The Law, the Supreme Court on 8 April 2014 finally upheld its constitutionality and supported the validity of most of its key provisions. Among other points, The Law affirms women’...

Share feedback about the accessibility of this item. Description Myths of gods, legends of battles, and folktales of magic abound in the heroic narratives of the Middle Ages. Mythology in the Middle Ages: Heroic Tales of Monsters, Magic, and Might describes how Medieval heroes were developed from a variety of source materials: Early pagan gods become euhemerized through a Christian lens, and an...