Contents-September 2009

September 2009

M K Chandrashekaran (1937–2009) Vidyanand Nanjundiah	333-341
Clipboard
Branches in the plant world Jean-Pierre Mazat and Christine Nazaret	343-344
Estradiol can modulate sensory processing with rapid and longer term consequences Juli Wade	345-347
Of pungency, pain, and naked mole rats: chili peppers revisited Renee M Borges	349-351
Commentary
R A Fisher, design theory, and the Indian connection A R P Rau	353–363
Perspectives
B P Belousov and his reaction Alexander Pechenkin	365–371
Series
What history tells us XVIII. When functional biologists propose mechanisms of evolution Michel Morange	373–376
Articles
Thermal stability of α-amylase in aqueous cosolvent systems Jay Kant Yadav and V Prakash	377–387
GalNAc-T14 may be involved in regulating the apoptotic action of IGFBP-3 Chen Wu, Yaojun Shan, Xinxia Liu, Wenqian Song, Jiali Wang, Minji Zou, Min Wang and Donggang Xu	389–395
Single-nucleotide variations associated with Mycobacterium tuberculosis KwaZulu-Natal strains Supplementary tables Sarbashis Das, Ragothaman M Yennamalli, Anchal Vishnoi, Parul Gupta and Alok Bhattacharya	397–404
Single-nucleotide polymorphisms in peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ and their association with plasma levels of resistin and the metabolic syndrome in a South Indian population Abdul Haseeb, Mohammad Iliyas, Subhabrata Chakrabarti, Arif A Farooqui, Sudhir R Naik, Sudip Ghosh, Madhuri Suragani and Nasreen Z Ehtesham	405–414
BRCA1 and BRCA2 germline mutation analysis among Indian women from south India: identifi cation of four novel mutations and high-frequency occurrence of 185delAG mutation Kannan Vaidyanathan, Smita Lakhotia, H M Ravishankar, Umaira Tabassum, Geetashree Mukherjee and Kumaravel Somasundaram	415–422
A simple and efficient Agrobacterium-mediated procedure for transformation of tomato Manoj K Sharma, Amolkumar U Solanke, Dewal Jani, Yogendra Singh and Arun K Sharma	423–433
Association preference and mechanism of kin recognition in tadpoles of the toad Bufo melanostictus Lilly Margaret Eluvathingal, Bhagyashri A Shanbhag and Srinivas K Saidapur	435–444
Reviews
Quantitative effect and regulatory function of cyclic adenosine 5'-phosphate in Escherichia coli Atul Narang	445–463
Structure–function–folding relationships and native energy landscape of dynein light chain protein: nuclear magnetic resonance insights P M Krishna Mohan and Ramakrishna V Hosur	465–479
Influenza A (H1N1) 2009: a pandemic alarm Madhu Khanna, Neha Gupta, Ankit Gupta and V K Vijayan	481–489
Erratum
Bioluminescence emissions of the firefly Luciola praeusta Kiesenwetter 1874 (Coleoptera : Lampyridae : Luciolinae) Agohain Barua, S Hazarika, N M Saikia and G D Baruah	491

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