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The expansion of energy crops such as miscanthus Miscanthus x giganteus has changed the habitat of European farmland birds. However, most studies on the subject are based in Western Europe. We surveyed the avian community in a sample bioenergy landscape in Poland to investigate the pattern of use of the crop by birds in Central Europe. During a year-long survey, 80 species were noted, with 32 sighted...
Alpine dock (Rumex alpinus) is a native plant species in many European mountain ranges. It comes from moist brushwood and open tall herb communities, though it has invaded mountain pastures. This troublesome weed forms permanent monodominant stands characterised by low nature conservation and agricultural values. However, to the best of our knowledge, there are no studies assessing the impact of R. alpinus...
Colorectal cancer (CRC), also known as colon cancer, rectal cancer, or colon cancer is one of the important mortal cancers of the gastrointestinal tract in Iran and worldwide. Interleukin 18 is one of the cytokines that causes inflammation and plays a real role in the inhibition of CRC development and evaluation of its rate is significant in cancer patients. The purpose of the present study was to...
In this study the temporal trends of common vole’s active burrow index in alfalfa fields were evaluated. The investigation was conducted in southern Hungary after an outbreak of common vole in 2014, during the growing population phase within two consecutive years. The average number of active burrows in 2017 was about 5 times higher than in 2016. In all sampling sites the temporal trends of active...
Tenodera angustipennis is an Asian praying mantis, whose crude extracts have long been used for the prevention and treatment of bacterial and viral diseases. Despite significant progress in obtaining biomaterials from praying mantis, antiherpetic activity of T. angustipennis eggs is not well defined. In this study, we characterized the crude extracts from T. angustipennis eggs using high performance...
Myrmecophilous and termitophilous interactions likely contributed to the competitive advantage and evolutionary success of eusocial insects, but how these commensal and parasitic relationships originated is unclear due to absence of fossil records. New extinct cockroaches of the still living family Blattidae are reported here from the Cretaceous Myanmar amber (99 Ma) and are the earliest known inhabitants...
Orchidaceae is the most extensive family of flowering plants. There are approximately 30,000 - 35,000 species, belonging to 850 genera, dispersed in almost all the ecosystems on earth, except in polar zones and extreme deserts. In Mexico, there are more than 1,200 species distribuited in approximately 170 genera, of which 40% are endemic to the country. In this review, aspects related to geographical...
Inland salt marshes and salt steppes are among the most endangered types of habitats listed in the Habitats Directive. The understanding of this fauna is poor although many rare species live here. From 2016 to 2018 we studied the spider communities of five salt marsh localities in the Slovak part of the Pannonian region belonging to Natura 2000 sites. The research revealed six very rare species: Gnaphosa rufula...
The aim of the present work was to examine and compare the fatty acid composition of muscle tissues from eleven pregnant beaver (Castor fiber) females and their foetuses. The females were culled during warrantable early spring beaver hunting period (from the beginning of March until the middle of April). The fat content of the muscles of beaver female was 2.0 times higher (P < 0.001) than that...
An efficient in vitro plant regeneration method through somatic embryogenesis has been established in Haworthia retusa. Somatic embryos were induced from leaf explants on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium supplemented with different concentrations of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D), indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), indole-3-butyric acid (IBA), and α-naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA) either alone or in...
This paper presents the first record of Luticola vanheurckii Van de Vijver & Levkov, outside of the type locality (second record in the Europe). Authors present habitat characteristic of the species, with LM and SEM micrographs. Luticola vanheurckii was found in a small outflow of water from storm sewers in Stalowa Wola (SE Poland). Luticola vanheurckii occurred only rarely (0–5 valves per slide),...
Soil water repellency occurs where the attraction between solid and liquid phases is weak. The objective of this study was to examine the occurrence and behavior of water repellency in Japanese coniferous forest soils as affected by drying temperature and moisture. Soil samples were obtained from forest soils under Chamaecyparis obtusa (CYP) and Cryptomeria japonica (CED), and an uncultivated land...
Sugar levels, the enzyme activity of UDP-Glucose Pyrophosphorylase (UGPase) and Sucrose Phosphate Synthase (SPS), key enzymes for sucrose synthesis, and the expression of their respective genes were examined in developing vegetative and reproductive shoot apices and in developing unpollinated ovaries of Pomegranate trees in order to detect differences possibly important for fruit production and plant...
In this study forty-five table grape Iranian cultivars were assessed by using 42 retrotransposon-microsatellite amplified polymorphism (REMAP) markers also analyzing population structure, linkage disequilibrium and genomic regions associated with most important berry yield and quality traits. The phenotypic results showed the great diversity of the Iranian germplasm and their suitability for genetic...
Capsicum chinense, is closely related to Capsicum annuum L., and the two species share a common gene pool. There are a limited number of cultivated C. chinense varieties; yet, it is acknowledged that C. chinense germplasm harbors useful alleles for important traits such as fruit yield, disease resistance, accumulation of secondary metabolites and technological fruit characters. Besides, it is feasible...
Changes in the structure of oribatid mite communities were studied at six urban sites located in Bratislava, Slovakia (Central Europe). These differed in pattern and in the intensity of human impact. Soil samples were taken from each site at monthly intervals for a period of two years. A total of 139 species were identified, of which 64.8% occurred at the control site. Low numbers of species (18–26...
One of the main properties of spiders increasing their pest regulation potencial is their use of passive dispersal, employing wind and silk fibers. This behaviour is crucial for the spidersʼ usefulness as pest control agent in agroecosystems as their fauna is regularly decimated by agricultural disturbances such as ploughing, cutting or application of pesticides and thus has to be regularly restored...
Caulerpa taxifolia (M. Vahl) C. Agardh or killer alga is known to possess several bioactive secondary metabolites with unique structural modifications. We investigated anti-oxidant and anti-proliferative activity of C. taxifolia extract (CTE) on breast and lung cancer cells, along with possible effects on mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP) and cell cycle progression. The results revealed up to...
Differences in limnological and hydrological conditions between storage and run-of-river reservoirs caused variations in phytoplankton assemblages along the two types of reservoirs. Instead of exploring variations in phytoplankton assemblages along one type of reservoir, this study identified similarities and differences in phytoplankton assemblages along two types of reservoirs. Phytoplankton assemblages...
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