pp 749-753 December 2011

Commentary: Less than wild? Commensal primates and wildlife conservation

Sindhu Radhakrishna Anindya Sinha

pp 755-760 December 2011

Commentary: Zdnēk Rudolf Bouček (1924–2011)

T C Narendran

pp 761-768 December 2011 Perspectives

Smallpox in the modern scientific and colonial contexts 1721–1840

Rajesh Kochhar

pp 769-772 December 2011 Series

What history tells us XXVI. From Mechnikov to proteotoxicity: Ageing as the result of an intoxication

Michel Morange

pp 773-779 December 2011 Articles

Fibrinolysis and anticoagulant potential of a metallo protease produced by Bacillus subtilis K42

Wesam A Hassanein Essam Kotb Nadia M Awny Yehia A El-Zawahry

pp 781-791 December 2011 Articles

The membranotropic activity of N-terminal peptides from the pore-forming proteins sticholysin I and II is modulated by hydrophobic and electrostatic interactions as well as lipid composition

Uris Ros Lohans Pedrera Daylín Díaz Juan C De Karam Tatiane P Sudbrack Pedro A Valiente Diana Martínez Eduardo M Cilli Fabiola Pazos Rosangela Itri Maria E Lanio Shirley Schreier Carlos Álvarez

pp 793-808 December 2011 Articles

Quaternary association in 𝛽-prism I fold plant lectins: Insights from X-ray crystallography, modelling and molecular dynamics

Alok Sharma Mamannamana Vijayan

pp 809-816 December 2011 Articles

Faster heme loss from hemoglobin E than HbS, in acidic pH: Effect of aminophospholipids

Mousumi Banerjee Malini Pramanik Dipankar Bhattacharya Mohini Lahiry Samita Basu Abhjit Chakrabarti

pp 817-821 December 2011 Articles

A factor in a wild isolated Neurospora crassa strain enables a chromosome segment duplication to suppress repeat-induced point mutation

Mukund Ramakrishnan T Naga Sowjanya Kranthi B Raj Durgadas P Kasbekar

pp 823-831 December 2011 Articles

TP53 gene polymorphism: Importance to cancer, ethnicity and birth weight in a Brazilian cohort

Helena S Thurow Ricardo Haack Fernando P Hartwig Isabel Ode Oliveira Odir A Dellagostin Denise P Gigante Bernardo L Horta Tiago Collares Fabiana K Seixas

pp 833-843 December 2011 Articles

Identification and characterization of a novel legume-like lectin cDNA sequence from the red marine algae Gracilaria fisheri

Sukanya Suttisrisung Saengchan Senapin Boonsirm Withyachumnarnkul Kanokpan Wongprasert

pp 845-850 December 2011 Articles

Wolbachia endosymbiont infection in two Indian butterflies and female-biased sex ratio in the Red Pierrot, Talicada nyseus

Kunal Ankola Dorothea Brueckner H P Puttaraju

pp 851-855 December 2011 Articles

Ventilation rates indicate stress-coping styles in Nile tilapia

Rodrigo E Barreto Gilson L Volpato

pp 857-868 December 2011 Articles

A two-step genetic study on quantitative precursors of coronary artery disease in a homogeneous Indian population: Case–control association discovery and validation by transmission-disequilibrium test

Sanjukta Mallik Partha P Majumder

pp 869-877 December 2011 Articles

Polyopes affinis alleviates airway inflammation in a murine model of allergic asthma

Dae-Sung Lee Won Sun Park Soo-Jin Heo Seon-Heui Cha Daekyung Kim You-Jin Jeon Sae-Gwang Park Su-Kil Seo Jung Sik Choi Sung-Jae Park Eun Bo Shim Il-Whan Choi Won-Kyo Jung

pp 879-885 December 2011 Articles

Inhibition of CYP3A4 and CYP2C9 by podophyllotoxin: Implication for clinical drug–drug interactions

Jin-Hui Song Dong-Xue Sun Bin Chen Dai-Hong Ji Jie Pu Jie Xu Feng-De Tian Lin Guo

pp 887-895 December 2011 Articles

Geometry and evolutionary parallelism in the long bones of cavioid rodents and small artiodactyls

O Rocha-Barbosa A Casinos

pp 897-910 December 2011 Articles

Structure, composition and mechanical properties of the silk fibres of the egg case of the Joro spider, Nephila clavata (Araneae, Nephilidae)

Ping Jiang Cong Guo Taiyong Lv Yonghong Xiao Xinjun Liao Bing Zhou

pp 911-919 December 2011 Mini-review

Gravitational biology and space life sciences: Current status and implications for the Indian space programme

P Dayanandan

pp 921-928 December 2011 Review

Ribosome evolution: Emergence of peptide synthesis machinery

Koji Tamura

pp 929-937 December 2011 Review

Reviewing host proteins of Rhabdoviridae: Possible leads for lesser studied viruses

A Guleria M Kiranmayi R Sreejith K Kumar S K Sharma S Gupta

pp 939-950 December 2011 Review

Anhydrobiosis in bacteria: From physiology to applications

Armando Hernández García

pp 951-956 December 2011 Review

Physiological roles of plastid terminal oxidase in plant stress responses

Xin Sun Tao Wen

pp 957-961 December 2011 Review

Cancer stem cell hypotheses: Impact on modern molecular physiology and pharmacology research

Igor Pantic

pp 963-981 December 2011 Review

Plant functional traits with particular reference to tropical deciduous forests: A review

R K Chaturvedi A S Raghubanshi J S Singh

pp 1003-1005 December 2011

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