Journal of Biosciences
Gallery of Cover Art

September 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.)

September 2011

The terrestrial brown-lipped banded snail, Cepaea nemoralis (L.), famous from polymorphism in shell colour and banding pattern. Here are presented: yellow mid-banded (bottom) and pink mid-banded morph (top). (See article by Zuzanna M Rosin et al., pp 691-699.)

August 2011

A Drosophila polytene chromosome section triplestained for DNA with Hoechst (blue) and by indirectimmunofluorescence for the zinc-finger proteins BEAF 32(green) and Z4 (red). (See article by Miao Gan and others, pp 425-438.)

June 2011

Exquisite flower of Passiflora calcarata Mast., Passifloraceae, showing the style bearing the stigma (note the yellow coloured pollen grains)     and the filament bearing the anthers (See article by BT Ramesha et al., pp 229-234).

March 2011

The charms of sex chromosomes in snakes

December 2010
Male mate location behaviour and encounter sites in a community of tropical butterfl ies: taxonomic and site associations and distinctions

September 2010

Designing exons for human olfactory receptor gene subfamilies using a
mathematical paradigm

June 2010

Unusual allometry for sexual size dimorphism in a cichlid where males are extremely larger than females

March2010

Immunology and art:Using antibody-based techniques toidentify proteins and gums in artworks