Contents

IN THIS ISSUE

1465	In this issue

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CORRESPONDENCE

1467	Impact of the top three exclusive medical journals of India
	Ritesh G. Menezes, B. Suresh Kumar Shetty, Tanuj Kanchan, Stany W. Lobo, T. S. Mohan Kumar and Mahabalesh Shetty
1467	Tiger farms – How are they justifiable?
	Nicky Xavier
1468	Lack of motivation for quality research
	Arun Arya
1468	Lack of statistical confidence
	Arun Bapat
1469	Reviving quality in plant science education
	Biju Dharmapalan
1470	‘No-charge’ journals: A choice for low-quality science?
	Marcin Kozak

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NEWS

1470	Gene targeting in mice using embryonic stem cells: The 2007 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology
	P. K. Gupta
1473	Nutrition-secure India – How do we get there? Nutrition conclave discusses the way forward
	Mahtab S. Bamji
1476	Entomology Academy of India
	T. N. Ananthakrishnan and R. W. Alexander Jesudasan

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RESEARCH NEWS

1477	The florigen mystery: A potential solution for an ancient riddle
	R. Jeyaraman and Susan Mary Varghese

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COMMENTARY

1479	Lessons from Japan in intellectual property reforms
	Dileep K. Paturu, Abhilasha Aswal and H. Mohd. Imaduddin

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OPINION

1481	Mathematics phobia: Are the mathematical sciences a pothole in the road of life?
	Pavlov Rameau and Clifford Louime
1483	Spreading fast yet unnoticed: Are we in for another invasion?
	Vikrant Jaryan, Sheetal Chopra, Sanjay Kr. Uniyal and R. D. Singh

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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

1485	Nuclear georeactor generation of the earth’s geomagnetic field
	J. Marvin Herndon
1488	Software for DNA fingerprinting analyses
	Madhu Bala
1489	Population status of Gymnocladus assamicus, a critically endangered tree species in Arunachal Pradesh
	B. I. Choudhury, M. L. Khan, A. Arunachalam and A. K. Das
1492	Biotechnological process for the treatment of fleshing from tannery industries for methane generation
	N. Vasudevan and A. D. Ravindran

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GENERAL ARTICLE

1495	The Thalakaadu phenomenon: A miracle or an ecological disaster?
	K. N. Ganeshaiah

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REVIEW ARTICLE

1501	Vaccination strategies for tuberculosis
	Abhinav Mehta, Rajeev K. Tyagi, Amit Goyal, Kapil Khatri, Prem N. Gupta and S. P. Vyas

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RESEARCH ARTICLES

1506	Gravitational lens systems to probe extragalactic magnetic fields
	D. Narasimha and S. M. Chitre
1514	Missing data: A comparison of neural network and expectation maximization techniques
	Fulufhelo V. Nelwamondo, Shakir Mohamed and Tshilidzi Marwala
1522	Precursory correlation dimensions for three great earthquakes
	P. N. S. Roy and Sankar K. Nath
1530	Assessment of rhizobacterial diversity of Triticum aestivum and Eleusine coracana from Northern region of India
	Shilpi Mittal and Bhavdish N. Johri

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SPECIAL SECTION: ASIAN BIODIVERSITY CRISES

1538	Asia’s tropics are the most intensively used: Contrasting conservation strategies between South and East
	Peter Ashton
1544	Forest destruction in tropical Asia
	William F. Laurance
1551	What’s so special about Asian tropical forests?
	Richard T. Corlett
1558	Beyond mast-fruiting events: Community asynchrony and individual dormancy dominate woody plant reproductive behavior across seven Bornean forest types
	Charles H. Cannon, Lisa M. Curran, Andrew J. Marshall and Mark Leighton
1567	A brief overview of the Western Ghats–Sri Lanka biodiversity hotspot
	Nihara R. Gunawardene, A. E. Dulip Daniels, I. A. U. N. Gunatilleke, C. V. S. Gunatilleke, P. V. Karunakaran, K. Geetha Nayak, S. Prasad, P. Puyravaud, B. R. Ramesh, K. A. Subramanian and G. Vasanthy
1573	Forest degradation in the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot: Resource collection, livelihood concerns and sustainability
	Priya Davidar, M. Arjunan, Pratheesh C. Mammen, J. P. Garrigues, J. P. Puyravaud and Krista Roessingh
1579	Managing dominance of invasive plants in wildlands
	Julie S. Denslow
1587	Fragmentation impacts caused by roads through rainforests
	Miriam Goosem
1596	An overview of techniques for the rehabilitation of degraded tropical forests and biodiversity conservation
	Shigeo Kobayashi

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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

1604	Climate augmentation of erythemal UV-B radiation dose damage in the tropics and global change
	M. Ilyas
1608	Chlorination by-products and their discharge from the cooling water system of a coastal electric plant
	R. Rajamohan, E. Vinnitha, V. P. Venugopalan and S. V. Narasimhan
1613	Chemolithotrophic oxidation of thiosulphate and tetrathionate by novel strains of Azospirillum and Pseudoxanthomonas isolated from the rhizosphere of an Indian tropical leguminous plant
	Wriddhiman Ghosh and Pradosh Roy
1616	Temporal changes in groundwater quality in an industrial area of Andhra Pradesh, India
	K. V. Srinivasa Rao, N. Subba Rao, B. Murali Krishna, P. Srinivasa Rao, A. Subrahmanyam, D. John Devadas and B. Tirupathi Rao
1620	Geochronological constraints on the evolution of Meghalaya massif, northeastern India: An ion microprobe study
	Maibam Bidyananda and M. P. Deomurari
1623	Ethnobotanical studies of Shompens – A critically endangered and degenerating ethnic community in Great Nicobar Island
	M. U. Sharief and R. R. Rao

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BOOK REVIEWS

1629	Biology, Ecology, and Evolution of Gall-inducing Arthropods. Ananthanarayanan Raman, Carl W. Schaefer and Toni M. Withers (eds)
	reviewed by T. C. Narendran
1630	Yash Pal: A Life in Science by Biman Basu
	reviewed by D. Balasubramanian

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COVER CAPTION

COVER.  Tropical Asian biodiversity in crises. (Photo credits: William Laurance, Shigeo Kobayashi, J. P. Puyravaud and B. R. Ramesh). See special section.

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