Journal of Biosciences
Volume 29, 2004
CONTENTS
Volume 29, No. 1, March 2004
Clipboard (Amitabha Chattopadhyay and Shanti Kalipatnapu; Ritwick Sawarkar) ...... 1–5
Perspectives
What impact, if any, has feminism had on science? Evelyn Fox Keller ...... 7–13
Articles
Involvement of Leishmania donovani major surface glycoprotein gp63 in promastigote multiplication Sanjeev Pandey, Phuljhuri Chakraborti, Rakhi Sharma, Santu Bandyopadhyay, Dwijen Sarkar and Samit Adhya ...... 15–22
Dibutyryl c-AMP as an inducer of sporidia formation: Biochemical and antigenic changes during morphological differentiation of Karnal bunt (Tilletia indica) pathogen in axenic culture Anil Kumar, Kaushlendra Tripathi, Manish Rana, Shalini Purwar and G K Garg ...... 23–31
Identification of a hypothetical membrane protein interactor of ribosomal phosphoprotein P0 K Aruna, Tirtha Chakraborty, Savithri Nambeesan, Abdul Baru Mannan, Alfica Sehgal, Seema R Bhalchandra and Shobhona Sharma ...... 33–43
Studies on middle silkgland proteins of cocoon colour sex-limited silkworm (Bombyx mori L.) using two- dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis Yuan-Xiang Jin, Yu-Yin Chen, Meng-Kui Xu and Yong-Huang Jiang ...... 45–49
Up-regulation of m-opioid receptors in the spinal cord of morphine-tolerant rats Subrata Basu Ray, Himanshu Gupta and Yogendra Kumar Gupta ...... 51–56
Analysis of human chorionic gonadotropin-monoclonal antibody interaction in BIAcore Banerjee Ashish and Gundlupet Satyanarayana Murthy ...... 57–66
An optimized gossypol high-performance liquid chromatography assay and its application in evaluation of different gland genotypes of cotton Yingfan Cai, Hong Zhang, Yu Zeng, Jianchuan Mo, Jinku Bao, Chen Miao, Jie Bai, Fang Yan and Fang Chen ...... 67–71
Protective effects of sodium orthovanadate in diabetic reticulocytes and ageing red blood cells of Wistar rats Bihari L Gupta, Anju Preet and Najma Z Baquer ...... 73–79
Effects of sodium-orthovanadate and Trigonella foenum-graecum seeds on hepatic and renal lipogenic enzymes and lipid profile during alloxan diabetes Umesh C S Yadav, K Moorthy and Najma Z Baquer...... 81–91
Golgi analysis of tangential neurons in the lobula plate of Drosophila melanogaster K P Rajashekhar and V R Shamprasad...... 93–104
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Factors influencing offspring traits in the oviparous multi-clutched lizard, Calotes versicolor (Agamidae) Rajkumar S Radder and Bhagyashri A Shanbhag...... 105–110
Adaptive response and split-dose effect of radiation on the survival of mice Ashu Bhan Tiku and R K Kale...... 111–117
On the dependence of speciation rates on species abundance and characteristic population size Anastassia M Makarieva and Victor G Gorshkov ...... 119–128
Volume 29, No. 2, June 2004
Clipboard (Ghanshyam Swarup; Rita Mulherkar) ...... 129–134
Commentary (Aparna Chattopadhyay, Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay and Chandrika B-Rao; Raghavendra Gadagkar) ...... 135–141
Perspectives
Exploring germ-soma differentiation in Volvox Marilyn M Kirk and David L Kirk...... 143–152
Articles
A novel potassium deficiency-induced stimulon in Anabaena torulosa Anuradha Alahari and Shree Kumar Apte ...... 153–161
KCTCCA, a peptide-based facilitator for bioelectrochemistry R Mukhopadhyay ...... 163–167
Microbial acetate oxidation in horizontal rotating tubular bioreactor A Slavica, B Šantek, S Novak and V Mariƒ ...... 169–177
Effects of anisotonicity on pentose-phosphate pathway, oxidized glutathione release and t-butyl- hydroperoxide-induced oxidative stress in the perfused liver of air-breathing catfish, Clarias batrachus Nirmalendu Saha and Carina Goswami...... 179–187
Acetylcholinesterase in central vocal control nuclei of the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) Monika Sadananda ...... 189–200
Foraging behaviour in tadpoles of the bronze frog Rana temporalis: Experimental evidence for the ideal free distribution Dheeraj K Veeranagoudar, Bhagyashri A Shanbhag and Srinivas K Saidapur...... 201–207
Volume 29, No. 3, September 2004
Clipboard (Gagan D Gupta; R L Brahmachary) ...... 209–212
Commentary (Raghavendra Gadagkar; Subhash C Lakhotia; T V Desikachary; Rakesh K Mishra) ...... 213–233
Perspectives
Human brain evolution, theories of innovation, and lessons from the history of technology Alfred Gierer ...... 235–244
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Enhanced functional and structural domain assignments using remote similarity detection procedures for proteins encoded in the genome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv Seema Namboori, Natasha Mhatre, Sentivel Sujatha,Narayanaswamy Srinivasan and Shashi Bhushan Pandit ... 245–259
When proteome meets genome: the alpha helix and the beta strand of proteins are eschewed by mRNA splice junctions and may define the minimal indivisible modules of protein architecture Sailen Barik ...... 261–273
An allele-specific polymerase chain reaction assay for the differentiation of members of the Anopheles culicifacies complex O P Singh, Geeta Goswami, N Nanda, K Raghavendra, D Chandra and S K Subbarao ...... 275–280
Protoporphyrin IX-induced structural and functional changes in human red blood cells, haemoglobin and myoglobin Susmita Sil, Tania Bose, Dibyendu Roy and Abhay Sankar Chakraborti ...... 281–291
Can mushrooms fix atmospheric nitrogen? H S Jayasinghearachchi and Gamini Seneviratne ...... 293–296
Infectivity analysis of two variable DNA B components of Mungbean yellow mosaic virus-Vigna in Vigna mungo and Vigna radiata V Balaji, R Vanitharani, A S Karthikeyan, S Anbalagan and K Veluthambi ...... 297–308
Do leaf surface characteristics affect Agrobacterium infection in tea [Camellia sinensis (L.) O Kuntze]? Nitish Kumar, Subedar Pandey, Amita Bhattacharya and Paramvir Singh Ahuja ...... 309–317
Genetic diversity amongst landraces of a dioecious vegetatively propagated plant, betelvine (Piper betle L.) Anjali Verma, Nikhil Kumar and S A Ranade ...... 319–328
Subcellular localization of cadmium in the root cells of Allium cepa by electron energy loss spectroscopy and cytochemistry Donghua Liu and Ingrid Kottke ...... 329–335
Cell volume changes affect gluconeogenesis in the perfused liver of the catfish Clarias batrachus Carina Goswami, Shritapa Datta, Kuheli Biswas and Nirmalendu Saha ...... 337–347
Extracellular electrical activity from the photoreceptors of midge A A Babrekar, G R Kulkarni, B B Nath and P B Vidyasagar ...... 349–353 mRNA translation during oocyte maturation plays a key role in development of primordial germ cells in Xenopus embryos Bahman Zeynali and Keith E Dixon...... 355–358
Sexual selection, redundancy and survival of the most beautiful R D Morris and J A Morris...... 359–366
Volume 29, No. 4, December 2004
Clipboard (Durgadas P Kasbekar; Aashiq Hussain Kachroo; Anjali Karande) ...... 367–374
Commentary (Obaid Siddiqi; Michel Morange; Ullica Segerstråle) ...... 375–384
Perspectives
Physical aspect of microscopic behaviour of biomolecules Ryuji Takaki ...... 385–389
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Living in a physical world I. Two ways to move material Steven Vogel ...... 391–397
Articles
Isolation and characterization of a new mannose-binding lectin gene from Taxus media Guoyin Kai, Lingxia Zhao, Jingui Zheng, Lei Zhang, Zhiqi Miao, Xiaofen Sun and Kexuan Tang ...... 399–407
Bioefficacy and mode-of-action of some limonoids of salannin group from Azadirachta indica A. Juss and their role in a multicomponent system against lepidopteran larvae Opender Koul, Gurmeet Singh, Rajwinder Singh, Jasbir Singh, W M Daniewski and Stanislaw Berlozecki...... 409–416
Effects of hypervitaminosis of vitamin B3 on silkworm biology Kayvan Etebari and Leila Matindoost ...... 417–422
Maxillary palp glomeruli and ipsilateral projections in the antennal lobe of Drosophila melanogaster K P Rajashekhar and V R Shamprasad...... 423–429
Review article
Addressing the concerns of rural communities about access to plants and knowledge in a sui generis legislation in Cameroon Marcelin Tonye Mahop...... 431–444
Addendum ...... 445
Special section
Stress biology – from molecules to populations and environment
Foreword ...... 447–448
Plant resistance to cold stress: Mechanisms and environmental signals triggering frost hardening and dehardening Erwin H Beck, Richard Heim and Jens Hansen ...... 449–459
Plant response strategies to stress and disturbance: the case of aquatic plants Michèle Trémolières ...... 461–470
Heat stress response in plants: a complex game with chaperones and more than twenty heat stress transcription factors Sanjeev Kumar Baniwal, Kapil Bharti, Kwan Yu Chan, Markus Fauth, Arnab Ganguli, Sachin Kotak, Shravan Kumar Mishra, Lutz Nover, Markus Port, Klaus-Dieter Scharf, Joanna Tripp, Christian Weber, Dirk Zielinski and Pascal von Koskull-Döring...... 471–487
Habitat diversity and adaptation to environmental stress in encysted embryos of the crustacean Artemia Joshua A Tanguay, Reno C Reyes and James S Clegg ...... 489–501
Ecologically relevant stress resistance: from microarrays and quantitative trait loci to candidate genes – A research plan and preliminary results using Drosophila as a model organism and climatic and genetic stress as model stresses Volker Loeschcke, Jesper G Sørensen and Torsten N Kristensen...... 503–511
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