The diet of earthworms includes soil organic matter, soil microbes and other microfauna, but the relative contribution of these dietary components to earthworm nutrition is not well known. Analysis of fatty acid (FA) profiles can reveal trophic relationships in soil food webs, leading to a better understanding of the energy and nutrient flows from microbiota to earthworms. The objective of this...

Chemoprevention is an important strategy to control the process of carcinogenesis. The potential of using medicinal herbs as cancer chemopreventive nutraceuticals and functional food is promising. There has been a growing awareness in recent years that dietary non-nutrient compounds can have important effects as chemopreventive agents and considerable work on the cancer chemopreventive effects ...

tribulus terrestris l. var. orientalis (kerner) g. beck is widely used in the traditional medicine of many countries. several flavonoides are identified from the plant material. aerial parts which collected from northeast of iran are used in this study. three flavonoid glycosides were isolated and characterized. the flovonoids were found to be based on quercetin and kaempferol. flavonoid glycos...

The taxonomic structure of yeast communities was studied in forest litter and soil, as well as in substrates transformed by the activity of Lumbricus terrestris earthworms (leaves in heaps, the gut contents, and coproliths). The activity of L. terrestris has a weak effect on the total yeast abundance but results in substantial changes in the community taxonomic composition. The share of ascomyc...

Workers of two bumblebee species, Bombus terrestris L. and B. pascuorum Scopoli, had to find the way of escape out of a test tube closed with a paper membrane stretched against its open end. Nearly all of the tested individuals solved successfully that task by tearing a hole in the membrane closing the tube. However, their escape behaviour showed significant interspecific differences. B. terres...

Tribulus terrestris is a herbal remedy which is used for various purposes in folk medicine. It has been used as tonic, aphrodisiac, astringent, analgesic, stomachic, anti-hypertensive, diuretic and urinary anti-septic. It is about 30 to 70cm high; it grows as a summer annual, has pinnately compound leaves, yellow flowers and stellate shaped carpel fruits. Since the past decades, some plants hav...

Tribulus terrestris is a herbal remedy which is used for various purposes in folk medicine. It has been used as tonic, aphrodisiac, astringent, analgesic, stomachic, anti-hypertensive, diuretic and urinary anti-septic. It is about 30 to 70cm high; it grows as a summer annual, has pinnately compound leaves, yellow flowers and stellate shaped carpel fruits. Since the past decades, some plants hav...

BACKGROUND This study was undertaken to identify the potential side effects of the novel naturalyte insecticide spinetoram in comparison with spinosad on the bumblebee Bombus terrestris L. The potential lethal effects together with the ecologically relevant sublethal effects on aspects of bumblebee reproduction and foraging behaviour were evaluated. Bumblebee workers were exposed via direct con...