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Current Issue Vol. 89 No. 7 10 October 2005
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Contents IN THIS ISSUE 1062 In this issue GUEST EDITORIAL 1063 Where have our young ones gone?: The coolieization of India Gangan Prathap CORRESPONDENCE 1065 Ethics and plagiarism A. S. Rao 1065 Science funding and follow-up actions Anantanarayanan Raman 1066 The need for NET exams Rajashekhar Patil 1066 Reconsidering ourselves: Assessing oneself and the present educational scenario Hridip Kumar Sarma, Bibhuti Prasad Lahkar, Md. Firoz Ahmed and Bibhab Kumar Talukdar 1067 Assessment of biodiversity loss Chandra Prakash Kala 1068 Invariance principles and belief structures A. N. Mitra; response by A. S. Parasnis 1069 Missing HN H. S. Vinay Deepak 1069 Schirmacher Oasis, East Antarctica, a lichenologically interesting region Sanjeeva Nayaka and D. K. Upreti 1071 Changes in local intertidal seaweed habitats in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands after 26 December 2004 tsunami Vaibhav A. Mantri 1073 China’s battle against escalating environmental pollution Govindasamy Agoramoorthy and Minna J. Hsu RESEARCH NEWS 1074 Recent revisions to the geologic time scale A. V. Sankaran COMMENTARY 1076 The science of growth and the growth of science Suranjana Nabar-Bhaduri and Sumit Bhaduri SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE 1080 A new chromosome number in Polygonatum cirrhifolium Royle – an endangered liliaceous medicinal herb Surrinder K. Lattoo, Shabnam Khan and Autar K. Dhar 1082 Sethusamudram Ship Canal Project: oceanographic/geological and ecological impact on marine life in the Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay, southeastern coast of India P. K. Kathal 1083 Imprint of 26 December 2004 Sumatra earthquake in aquifers of Hyderabad granite pluton D. Muralidharan, Rolland Andrade, G. Laxminarayana, T. Swathi and T. Swetha 1086 Swarm cells of slime molds in sexual conjugation from sixty-five million year old sediments, Madhya Pradesh, India R. K. Kar, Neeta Sharma and Ratan Kar 1089 Soft body impression of the hand in Archaeopteryx Larry D. Martin and Jong-Deock Lim 1090 Green mussel Perna viridis, a new host for the pea crab Pinnotheres placunae along the Malabar coast, Kerala Boby Jose and T. R. Deepthi GENERAL ARTICLES 1092 Apomixis research in India: past efforts and future strategies P. Kaushal, S. N. Zadoo, D. R. Malaviya and A. K. Roy 1097 Establishment of artemisinin combination therapy as first line treatment for combating malaria: Artemisia annua cultivation in India needed for providing sustainable supply chain of artemisinin Sushil Kumar and Suchi Srivastava REVIEW ARTICLES 1103 Phospholipid fatty acid – A bioindicator of environment monitoring and assessment in soil ecosystem Amrit Kaur, A. Chaudhary, Amarjeet Kaur, R. Choudhary and R. Kaushik 1113 Reactive oxygen species and oxidative burst: Roles in stress, senescence and signal transduction in plants Soumen Bhattacharjee SPECIAL SECTION: ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR 1122 The animal mind and conservation of species: Knowing what animals know Douglas K. Candland 1128 Behaviour genetics in the post-genomics era: From genes to behaviour and vice versa Amitabh Joshi 1136 Zeitgebers (time cues) for biological clocks Vijay Kumar Sharma and M. K. Chandrashekaran 1147 Neurobiology and behaviour: A network of connections Rohini Balakrishnan 1166 Ecology proposes, behaviour disposes: Ecological variability in social organization and male behavioural strategies among wild bonnet macaques Anindya Sinha, Kakoli Mukhopadhyay, Anirban Datta-Roy and Sunita Ram 1180 Integrating proximate and ultimate causation: Just one more go! B. Thierry 1184 Role of parasites and commensals in shaping host behaviour Maithili Jog and Milind Watve 1192 Variation in male mating behaviour within ungulate populations: patterns and processes Kavita Isvaran 1200 Social and reproductive behaviour in elephants T. N. C. Vidya and R. Sukumar 1208 Midnight’s children?: Solitary primates and gregarious chiropterans Sindhu Radhakrishna 1214 Managing primates in zoos: Lessons from animal behaviour Avanti Mallapur 1220 Mate choice and its implications for conservation and management Suhel Quader 1230 Behavioural studies: A necessity for wildlife management Mewa Singh and Werner Kaumanns RESEARCH ARTICLE 1237 Near-field observations on the co-seismic deformation associated with the 26 December 2004 Andaman–Sumatra earthquake Anil Earnest, C. P. Rajendran, Kusala Rajendran, R. Anu, G. M. Arun and P. M. Mohan RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS 1245 Modelling of foF2 using neural networks at an equatorial anomaly station A. D. Sarma and T. Madhu 1248 Application of bacterial biomass as a potential metal indicator S. Srivastava, P. Singh, R. Bhagat and V. N. Tripathi 1252 Determination of nutritive value and analysis of mineral elements for some medicinally valued plants from Uttaranchal A. K. Indrayan, Sudeep Sharma, Deepak Durgapal, Neeraj Kumar and Manoj Kumar 1256 Ratio of stable carbon and oxygen isotope discrimination (D13C/D18O) reflects variability in leaf intrinsic carboxylation efficiency in plants H. Bindumadhava, M. S. Sheshshayee, G. Shashidhar, T. G. Prasad and M. Udayakumar 1259 Occurrence of magnetic spherules in the Maastrichtian bone bed sedimentary sequence of Fatehgarh Formation, Barmer basin, India S. C. Mathur, S. D. Gaur, R. S. Loyal, Amita Tripathi, R. P. Tripathi and Ajay Gupta 1268 Biosafety concerns on the use of Photorhabdus luminescens as biopesticide: experimental evidence of mortality in egg parasitoid Trichogramma spp. Sharad Mohan and Naved Sabir BOOK REVIEWS 1273 Photosynthesis. Regulation Under Varying Light Regimes by V. S. Rama Das reviewed by A. S. Raghavendra 1273 Microbial Genomes. C. M. Fraser et al reviewed by Shilpi Mittal and J. S. Virdi PERSONAL NEWS 1276 Leela Mulherkar-Golay (1915–2005) Surendra Ghaskadbi and Sohan P. Modak 1277 Ranjan Roy Daniel (1923–2005) S. A. Stephens HISTORICAL NOTES 1280 The first image of the atoms and role of an Indian scientist Deepak Kumar COVER CAPTION Optical micrograph of magnetic spherules. See page 1259. The editor thanks Mewa Singh, Biopsychology Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Mysore, Mysore, India for agreeing to be guest editor for the special section. ADVERTISEMENTS 1282 Department of Science & Technology JC BOSE NATIONAL FELLOWSHIPS 1284 Department of Science & Technology RAMANUJAN FELLOWSHIPS 1286 DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Invitation for Joint Institution–Industry Collaborative Projects in Emerging Technologies 1287 National Board for Higher Mathematics 1288 Advertisement for the post of Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) 1288 Proposals for Research in Femtosecond and Picosecond Fluorescence Spectroscopy 1289 RAJIV GANDHI CENTRE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY 1289 Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology 1290 INDIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Academy Initiative in University Science Education 1291 BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 1291 Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy 1292 CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE 1295 Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute 1296 SPAN Announcements Fourth Cover
IN THIS ISSUE
1062
In this issue
GUEST EDITORIAL
1063
CORRESPONDENCE
1065
A. S. Rao
Anantanarayanan Raman
Rajashekhar Patil
RESEARCH NEWS
A. V. Sankaran
COMMENTARY
Suranjana Nabar-Bhaduri and Sumit Bhaduri
SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE
1080
A new chromosome number in Polygonatum cirrhifolium Royle – an endangered liliaceous medicinal herb
Surrinder K. Lattoo, Shabnam Khan and Autar K. Dhar
1082
Sethusamudram Ship Canal Project: oceanographic/geological and ecological impact on marine life in the Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay, southeastern coast of India
P. K. Kathal
GENERAL ARTICLES
P. Kaushal, S. N. Zadoo, D. R. Malaviya and A. K. Roy
REVIEW ARTICLES
Amrit Kaur, A. Chaudhary, Amarjeet Kaur, R. Choudhary and R. Kaushik
Soumen Bhattacharjee
SPECIAL SECTION: ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR
1122
The animal mind and conservation of species: Knowing what animals know
Douglas K. Candland
1128
Behaviour genetics in the post-genomics era: From genes to behaviour and vice versa
Amitabh Joshi
1136
Zeitgebers (time cues) for biological clocks
Vijay Kumar Sharma and M. K. Chandrashekaran
1147
Neurobiology and behaviour: A network of connections
Rohini Balakrishnan
1166
Ecology proposes, behaviour disposes: Ecological variability in social organization and male behavioural strategies among wild bonnet macaques
Anindya Sinha, Kakoli Mukhopadhyay, Anirban Datta-Roy and Sunita Ram
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Anil Earnest, C. P. Rajendran, Kusala Rajendran, R. Anu, G. M. Arun and P. M. Mohan
RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
1245
Modelling of foF2 using neural networks at an equatorial anomaly station
A. D. Sarma and T. Madhu
1248
Application of bacterial biomass as a potential metal indicator
S. Srivastava, P. Singh, R. Bhagat and V. N. Tripathi
1252
Determination of nutritive value and analysis of mineral elements for some medicinally valued plants from Uttaranchal
A. K. Indrayan, Sudeep Sharma, Deepak Durgapal, Neeraj Kumar and Manoj Kumar
1256
Ratio of stable carbon and oxygen isotope discrimination (D13C/D18O) reflects variability in leaf intrinsic carboxylation efficiency in plants
H. Bindumadhava, M. S. Sheshshayee, G. Shashidhar, T. G. Prasad and M. Udayakumar
1259
Occurrence of magnetic spherules in the Maastrichtian bone bed sedimentary sequence of Fatehgarh Formation, Barmer basin, India
S. C. Mathur, S. D. Gaur, R. S. Loyal, Amita Tripathi, R. P. Tripathi and Ajay Gupta
BOOK REVIEWS
Photosynthesis. Regulation Under Varying Light Regimes by V. S. Rama Das
reviewed by A. S. Raghavendra
Microbial Genomes. C. M. Fraser et al
reviewed by Shilpi Mittal and J. S. Virdi
PERSONAL NEWS
Leela Mulherkar-Golay (1915–2005)
Surendra Ghaskadbi and Sohan P. Modak
HISTORICAL NOTES
The first image of the atoms and role of an Indian scientist
Deepak Kumar
COVER CAPTION
ADVERTISEMENTS
1284
Department of Science & Technology RAMANUJAN FELLOWSHIPS
1286
DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Invitation for Joint Institution–Industry Collaborative Projects in Emerging Technologies
1287
1288
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