Vol. 24, No. 4, December 1999

Chauvinism in Science

Gottfried Schatz

417–420

Evolution of a new chromosomal lineage in a laboratory population of Drosophila through centric fission

M T Tanuja, N B Ramachandra and H A Ranganath

421–426

Female remating in Drosophila ananassae: shorter duration of copulation during second mating as compared to first mating

B N Singh and S R Singh 

Assessment of genetic variation within Brassica campestris cultivars using amplified fragment length polymorphism and random amplification of polymorphic DNA markers

Sandip Das, Jyothi Rajagopal, Sabhyata Bhatia, P S Srivastava and
Malathi Lakshmikumaran

433–440

Accumulation of unusual sterile transcripts of TCRb in mouse hybridoma, murine tumour and non-human primate marmoset tumour

P Bhattacharya

441–444

High level expression of soybean trypsin inhibitor gene in transgenic tobacco plants failed to confer resistance against damage caused by Helicoverpa armigera

Ashis Kumar Nandi, Debabrata Basu, Sampa Das and Soumitra K Sen 

445–452

Alteration in template recognition by Escherichia coli RNA polymerase lacking the w subunit: A mechanistic analysis through gel retardation and foot-printing studies

Kakoli Mukherjee and Dipankar Chatterji

453–459

Biochemical properties of xylanases from a thermophilic fungus, Melanocarpus albomyces, and their action on plant cell walls

K Ashok Prabhu and Ramesh Maheshwari

461–470

Role of carcinoscorpin, a haemolymph lectin of horseshoe crab Carcinoscorpius rotundacauda as humoral factor

S Basu Sarbadhikari, D Datta and R Bhadra

471–476

A pilot study of recurrence of human glial tumours in light of p53 heterozygosity status

K C Jain, P Chattopadhyay, C Sarkar, S Sinha and A K Mahapatra

477–481

Nitric oxide synthase immunoreactivity in the developing and adult human retina

Shashi Wadhwa and Tapas C Nag

483–490

Climatic implications of d¹³C and d¹⁸O ratios from C3 and C4 plants growing in a tropical montane habitat in southern India

Geeta Rajagopalan, R Ramesh and R Sukumar

491–498

Novel light-activated protein kinases as key regulators of plant growth and development

S C Maheshwari, J P Khurana and S K Sopory

499–514

Gene expression and pattern formation during early embryonic development in amphibians

Horst Grunz

515–528

How environmental factors regulate mutagenesis and gene transfer
in microorganisms

Vassili V Velkov

529–559