Journal of Biosciences
December 2011


Stem traits (bark texture) of tropical deciduous forest tree species of
India. From top to bottom: Diospyros melanoxylon, Anogeissus latifolia,
Soymida febrifuga, Boswellia serrata, Shorea robusta, Sterculia urens,
Lannea coromandelica, Buchanania lanzan and Terminalia tomentosa. (See
article by RK Chaturvedi et al. pp 963-981.)

Commentaries

Less than Wild? Commensal Primates and Wildlife Conservation
Sindhu Radhakrishna and Anindya Sinha


749 753
 

Zdnek Rudolf Boucek (1924 -2011)
T C Narendran


755-760
 
Perspectives

Smallpox in the modern scientific and colonial contexts 1721 -1840
Rajesh Kochhar


761-768
 
Series

What history tells us XXVI. From Mechnikov to proteotoxicity: Ageing as the result of an intoxication
Michel Morange


769-772
 
Articles

Fibrinolysis and anticoagulant potential of a metallo protease produced by Bacillus subtilis K42
Wesam A Hassanein, Essam Kotb, Nadia M Awny and Yehia A El-Zawahry


773-779

The membranotropic activity of N-terminal peptides from the pore-forming proteins sticholysin I and II is modulated by hydrophobic and electrostatic interactions as well as lipid Composition
Uris Ros, Lohans Pedrera, Daylín Díaz, Juan C De Karam, Tatiane P Sudbrack, Pedro A Valiente, Diana Martínez, Eduardo M Cilli, Fabiola Pazos, Rosangela Itri, Maria E Lanio, Shirley Schreier and Carlos Álvarez


781-791
 

Quaternary association in β-prism I fold plant lectins: Insights from X-ray crystallography, modelling and molecular dynamics
Alok Sharma and Mamannamana Vijayan
Supplementary material


793-808
 

Faster heme loss from hemoglobin E than HbS, in acidic pH: Effect of aminophospholipids
Mousumi Banerjee, Malini Pramanik, Dipankar Bhattacharya, Mohini Lahiry, Samita Basu and Abhjit Chakrabarti

809-816
 

A factor in a wild isolated Neurospora crassa strain enables a chromosome segment duplication to suppress repeat-induced point mutation
Mukund Ramakrishnan, T Naga Sowjanya, Kranthi B Raj and Durgadas P Kasbekar


817-821
 

TP53 gene polymorphism: Importance to cancer, ethnicity and birth weight in a Brazilian cohort
Helena S Thurow, Ricardo Haack, Fernando P Hartwig, Isabel O De Oliveira, Odir A Dellagostin, Denise P Gigante, Bernardo L Horta, Tiago Collares and Fabiana K Seixas


823-831
 

Identification and characterization of a novel legume-like lectin cDNA sequence from the red marine algae Gracilaria fisheri
Sukanya Suttisrisung, Saengchan Senapin, Boonsirm Withyachumnarnkul and Kanokpan Wongprasert


833-843
 

Wolbachia endosymbiont infection in two Indian butterflies and female-biased sex ratio in the Red Pierrot, Talicada nyseus
Kunal Ankola, Dorothea Brueckner and HP Puttaraju


845-850
 

Ventilation rates indicate stress-coping styles in Nile tilapia
Rodrigo E Barreto and Gilson L Volpato


851-855
 

A two-step genetic study on quantitative precursors of coronary artery disease in a homogeneous Indian population: Case -control association discovery and validation by transmission-disequilibrium test
Sanjukta Mallik and Partha P Majumder
Supplementary material


857-868
 

Polyopes affinis alleviates airway inflammation in a murine model of allergic asthma
Dae-Sung Lee, Won Sun Park, Soo-Jin Heo, Seon-Heui Cha, Daekyung Kim, You-Jin Jeon, Sae-Gwang Park, Su-Kil Seo, Jung Sik Choi, Sung-Jae Park, Eun Bo Shim, Il-Whan Choi and Won-Kyo Jung


869-877
 

Inhibition of CYP3A4 and CYP2C9 by podophyllotoxin: Implication for clinical drug -drug interactions
Jin-Hui Song, Dong-Xue Sun, Bin Chen, Dai-Hong Ji, Jie Pu, Jie Xu,Feng-De Tian and Lin Guo


879-885
 

Geometry and evolutionary parallelism in the long bones of cavioid rodents and small artiodactyls
O Rocha-Barbosa and A Casinos


887-895
 

Structure, composition and mechanical properties of the silk fibres of the egg case of the Joro spider, Nephila clavata (Araneae, Nephilidae)
Ping Jiang, Cong Guo, Taiyong LV, Yonghong Xiao, Xinjun Lia ond Bing Zhou


897-910
 
Mini-review

Gravitational biology and space life sciences: Current status and implications for the Indian space programme
P Dayanandan
Supplementary material


911-919
 
Reviews

Ribosome evolution: Emergence of peptide synthesis machinery
Koji Tamura


921-928
 

Reviewing host proteins of Rhabdoviridae: Possible leadsfor lesser studied viruses
A Guleria, M Kiranmayi, R Sreejith, K Kumar, SK Sharma and S Gupta


929-937
 

Anhydrobiosis in bacteria: From physiology to applications
Armando Hernández García


939-950

Physiological roles of plastid terminal oxidase in plant stress responses
Xin Sun and Tao Wen


951-956

Cancer stem cell hypotheses: Impact on modern molecular physiology and pharmacology research
Igor Pantic


957-961

Plant functional traits with particular reference to tropical deciduous forests: A review
RK Chaturvedi, AS Raghubanshi and JS Singh


963-981
Acknowledgement of  Referees

 

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