Journal of Biosciences
June 2012
(Volume 37 No 2)
June 2011


Cover: Disruption of metamorphosis in Helicoverpa armigera by 
protease inhibitor from Acacia nilotica seeds. (See article by
S Ramesh Babu et al., pp 269-276.)



Clipboards

Lymphohematopoietic licence: Sterol C-14 reductase activity of lamin B receptor (Lbr) is essential for neutrophil differentiation
Durgadas P Kasbekar

199 - 201

Alfred Russel Wallace and the elimination of the unfit
Charles H Smith

203 - 205
 
Commentaries

NR Moudgal  -  A pioneer in the development of immunocontraceptive approaches
A Jagannadha Rao and N Appaji Rao

207 - 210

From aneuploidy to cancer: The evolution of a new species?
Samuel Knauss and Andreas Klein

211 - 220
 
Brief communications

Molecular typing of fecal eukaryotic microbiota of human infants and their respective mothers
Prashant K Pandey, Jay Siddharth, Pankaj Verma, Ashish Bavdekar, Milind S Patole and Yogesh S Shouche

221 - 226

Neuropeptide Y gene expression around meal time in the Brazilian flounder Paralichthys orbignyanus
Vinicius F Campos, Ricardo B Robaldo, JoÃo C Deschamps, Fabiana K Seixas, Alan John A Mcbride, Luis Fernando Marins, Marcelo Okamoto, Lui­s A Sampaio and Tiago Collares

227 - 232
 
Articles

Effect of LNA- and OMeN-modified oligonucleotide probes on the stability and discrimination of mismatched base pairs of duplexes
Ying Yan, Jing Yan, Xianyu Piao, Tianbiao Zhang and Yifu Guan
Supplementary material

233 - 241

STAT3 mutations correlated with hyper-IgE syndrome lead to blockage of IL-6/STAT3 signalling pathway
Jianxin He, Jie Shi, Ximing Xu, Wenhua Zhang, Yuxin Wang, Xing Chen, Yuping Du, Ning Zhu, Jing Zhang, Qin Wang and Jinbo Yang

243 - 257

Characterization of P1 promoter activity of the B-galactoside a2,6sialyltransferase I gene (siat 1) in cervical and hepatic cancer cell lines
Lorena Milflores-Flores, Lourdes MillÃn-Perez, Gerardo Santos-Lopez, Julio Reyes-Leyva and Veronica Vallejo-Ruiz

259 - 267

In vivo and in vitro effect of Acacia nilotica seed proteinase inhibitors on Helicoverpa armigera (Hùbner) larvae
S Ramesh Babu, B Subrahmanyam, Srinivasan and IM Santha

269 - 276

Quercetin modulates activities of Taiwan cobra phospholipase A2 via its effects on membrane structure and membrane-bound mode of phospholipase A2
Yi-Ling Chiou, Shinne-Ren Lin, Wan-Ping Hu and Long-Sen Chang

277 - 287
 
Mini-review

Adipokine leptin in obesity-related pathology of breast cancer
Amitabha Ray

289 - 294
 
Reviews

Insights into eisosome assembly and organization
Murphy ER and Kim KT

295 - 300

Nucleic acids in circulation: Are they harmful to the host?
Indraneel Mittra, Naveen Kumar Nair and Pradyumna Kumar Mishra

301 - 312

Pyrroloquinoline-quinone and its versatile roles in biological processes
HS Misra, YS Rajpurohit and NP Khairnar

313 - 325

Invertebrate lysozymes: Diversity and distribution, molecular mechanism and in vivo function
Joris M Van Herreweghe and Chris W Michiels

327 - 348

Mammary gland stem cells: More puzzles than explanations
Suneesh Kaimala, Swathi Bisana and Satish Kumar

349 - 358

Behavioural reproductive isolation and speciation in Drosophila
Punita Nanda and Bashisth Narayan Singh

359 - 374
 

 

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