Ancestral State Reconstruction Reveals Rampant Homoplasy of Diagnostic Morphological Characters in Urticaceae, Conflicting with Current Classification Schemes. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Urticaceae is a family with more than 2000 species, which contains remarkable morphological diversity. It has undergone many taxonomic reorganizations, and is currently the subject of further systematic studies.
Zeng-Yuan Wu +5 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 Several members of family Urticaceae are mainly found in the temperate and subtropical zones of the Northern Hemisphere and are important medicinal plants. Among them, Urtica dioica L.
Yifan Zhang +8 more
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DISTRIBUTION OF CLIMATIC SUITABILITY OF PELLIONIA SCABRA BENTH. (URTICACEAE) IN CHINA
Applied Ecology and Environmental Research, 2022 . Pellionia scabra Benth. (PSB), a traditional Chinese medicinal plant, is widely used as folk treatment for rheumatic diseases. Assessing the impact of climate change on habitat suitability is critical for PSB resource utilization and ecological ...
T. Chen +4 more
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Sensitivity of the grassland-forest ecotone in East African open woodland savannah to historical rainfall variation [PDF]
, 2014 . Fossil pollen records provide key insight into the sensitivity of terrestrial ecosystems to climate change at longer time scales. However, tracing vegetation response to relatively modest historical climate fluctuations is often complicated by the ...
Gelorini, Vanessa +2 more
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Effect of Urtica dioica L extract on quantitative morphometric alterations of liver parenchymal cells in STZ diabetic rats [PDF]
, 2009 Diabetes is associated with several structural and functional liver abnormalities that affect glycogen and lipid metabolism. In this study, an attempt was made to evaluate the effects of hydroalcoholic extract of Urtica dioica leaves on Quantitative ...
Farsi, M.M. +2 more
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Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2021 Background Urtica simensis has been used for the treatment of peptic ulcer disease in Ethiopian folkloric medicine by drinking its juice after boiling the semicrushed leaf.
Woretaw Sisay +3 more
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Taxonomy and phylogeny of the Old World jumping plant-louse genus Paurocephala (Insecta, Hemiptera, Psylloidea) [PDF]
, 2002 Fifty-one species are recognized in the genus Paurocephala, with an additional 14 species which remain unnamed. Thirty-five species are described as new, and five species are synonymized: P. pumilae and P. zhejiangensis with P.
Burckhardt, Daniel, Mifsud, David
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A taxonomic revision of the Boehmeria spicata complex (Urticaceae) in Korea
Korean Journal of Plant Taxonomy, 2021 Seven species and two varieties belonging to the genus Boehmeria Jacq. (Urticaceae) are known to be distributed in Korea. Among them, B. spicata, B. tricuspis, and B. tricuspis var. unicuspis were subjected to an external morphological study.
Hyeong-Jun Jo +6 more
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Characterization of the complete chloroplast genome sequence of Cecropia pachystachya
Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2017 The complete chloroplast genome of Cecropia pachystachya Trécul was determined in this study. The total genome size was 153,925 bp in length, containing a pair of inverted repeats (IRs) of 25,443 bp, which were separated by large single copy (LSC) and ...
Zeng-Yuan Wu +4 more
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Neural networks for increased accuracy of allergenic pollen monitoring
Scientific Reports, 2021 Monitoring of airborne pollen concentrations provides an important source of information for the globally increasing number of hay fever patients. Airborne pollen is traditionally counted under the microscope, but with the latest developments in image ...
Marcel Polling +9 more
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