Journal of Biosciences
Gallery of Cover Art
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Emergent patterns of social organization in captiveCercocebus torquatos. (See article by R Dolado and FS Beltran,Vol 37, No 4, pp 777-784.)
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Adult female of the Panamanian Golden Frog, Atelopus zeteki (Anura: Bufonidae) (See article by A Paz and AJ Cawford, pp 887–896.)
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Bearded vulture from the Pyrenean Mountains. (See article by García et al., pp 689–694.)
July2012
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An example of a molecular-dynamics-calculated hydration density of (poly-A)DNA. (See article by Beveridge et al., pp 379-397.)
June2012
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Disruption of metamorphosis in Helicoverpa armigera by protease inhibitor from Acacia nilotica seeds. (See article by S Ramesh Babu et al., pp 269-276.)
March 2012
Development of leaf-blast-resistant finger millet through genetic engineering. Finger millet plants were challenged with Pyricularia griseae spores; the transgenic plants (right) exhibited high level of resistance to fungal infection and control plants (left) were susceptible. (See article by S Ignacimuthu and S Antony Ceasar, pp 135-1147.)
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.)
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.
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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
