Journal of Biosciences
Vol. 24, No. 1, March 1999
CONTENTS
Clipboard (Aniruddha Das, Arun Kumar) ................................................................................................ 1-6
Perspectives
The history of the cellular slime moulds as a "model system" for
developmental biology
J T Bonner. ................................................................................................................................................ 7-12
Articles
In vitro cultured Spodoptem frugiperda insect cells: Model for oxidative
stress-induced apoptosis
Seyed E Hasnain, Tarvinder K Taneja, Nand K Sah, Manjari Mohan, Niteen Pathak,
Sudhir Sahdev, Mohammad Athar, Satish M Totey and Rasheedunnisa Begum ................................... 13-19
Expression of enhancing f actor/phospholipase A(2) in ICRC mice
C Deshpande, V Patki, M G Deo and R Mulherkar................................................ .................................. 21-26
Cy tosine methylation levels in the genome of Stellaria longipes
Q Cai and C C Chinnappa .......................................................................................................................... 27-33
Random amplification of polymorphic DNA with conserved sequences
reveals genome-specific monomorphic amplicons: Implications in clad
identification
Md. Asim Azfer, Anu Bashamboo, Nasser Ahmed and Sher Ali........................ .............................................. 35-41
Role of mediators in electron transport from glucose oxidase redox centre
to electrode surface in a covalently coupled enzyme paste electrode
D Sauitri and Chanchal K Mitra .................................................................................................................. 43-48
Effect of gamma -radiation on the ratio of [18 F]2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose to
glucose utilization in human glioblastoma cells in vitro
F H A Schneeweiss, R N Sharan, H Hautzel, H W Müller-Gärtner......................................................................... 49-52
Nutritional and hormonal effects on storage proteins in the silkworm,
Bombyx mori L.
S fanarthanan, S Sankar, M Krishnan and S Ignacimuthu............................................................................... 53-57
Platelet Ca(2+) handling in essential hypertension: Role of a plasma
ouabain-like factor
Shalini Gulati, Madhu Khullar^ Ramandeep Singh, Savita Kumari, N K Ganguly and
B K Sharma. ....................................................................................................................................................... 59-67
Guanidine hydrochloride-induced reversible unfolding of sheep liver serine
hydroxymethyl transferase
B Venkatesha, Jayant B Udgaonkar, N Appaji Rao and H S Savithri................................................. 69-77
Dye mediated photoinactivation of bacteriophaof neem extracts and
azadirachtin on two aphid species of ornamental plants
opender Koul,....................................................................................................................................... 85-90
Embryonic ecdysteroids in a mole crab, Emerita asintica (Milne-Edwards)
T Subramoniam, R Timmalai, V Gunamalai and K H Hoffinann........................................................ 91-96
Occurrence and morphometry of the hypopharyngeal glands in Scaptotrigona
postica Lat. (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponinae)
R A C Costa and C Cruz-Landim........................................................................................................ 97-102
Protein evolution: The deciphering of latent facets - correlation of synthesis
profiles of ribosornally directed proteins and enzyme directed peptides
S Ranganathan, D Kundu and N Tamilarasu ........................................................................................ 103-113
Principles of biological pattern formation: swarming and aggregation viewed
as self-organization phenomena
Andreas Deutsch..................................................................................................................................... 115-120
Review article
Reconstruction of phylogenetic relationships
Chandrika B-Rao and Kshitish C Majumdar.............................................................................................. 121-137
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Journal of Biosciences
Vol. 24, No. 2, June 1999
CONTENTS
Clipboard (Abhilasha Gulati, M G Narasimhan) ......................................................... 139-142
Perspectives
The control of tuberculosis: a continuous game of snakes and ladders
T Ramakrishnan and P Chandrasekhar ...................................................................... 143-152
Articles
Elucidation of the lesions present in the transcription defective
fitA.76 mutant of Escherichia coli: Implication of phenylalanyl tRNA
synthetase subunits as transcription factors
Sandhya Ramalingam, M Hussain Munavar, S Sudha, A Ruckmani and
R fayaraman.................................................................................................................. 153-162
TCR VR17 gene polymorphism in wild populations of Indian Mus
musculus
M A-luasthi, P A Cazenave, S Rath and R K Anand .................................................... 163-169
Acute and transient effects of stress on immunoreactive somato-
statin cell bodies and fibers in the preoptic-anterior hypothalamus
and median eminence of female rats
Maheep Bhatnagar ........................................................................................................ 171-176
Age-specific differences in blood pressure among inbred and non-
inbred north Indian children
Badaruddoza and Mohammad Afzal............................................................................... 177-184
Isolation and immunochemical characterization of neuropeptides from
the midgut of the Colorado potato beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata
D Muraleedharan and D Sheela Devi............................................................................. 185-191
Ultrastructural evidence for the presence of secretory cells in the
pineal parenchyma of Heteropneustesfossilis
S Srivastava..................................................................................................................... 193-198
Age-dependent changes of the ion content and the circadian leaf
movement period in the Phaseolus pulvinus
W-E Mayer, B Bok and A Rieger...................................................................................... 199-206
Efficacy of Trichoderma chitinases against Rhizoctonia solani, the rice
sheath blight pathogen
J Krishnamurthy, R Samiyappan, P Vidhyasekaran, S Nakkeeran,
E Rajesluari, J A ] Raja and P Balasubramaman ........................................................ 207-213
Analysis of rice mitochondrial genorne organization using pulsed-
field gel electrophoresis
PSenthUkumar and K K Narayanan ............................................................................ 215-222
Life history response of the mustard aphid Lipaphis erysimi to
phenological changes in its host
B K Aganuala and N Datta. ........................................................................................... 223-231
Insect drift over the northern Arabian sea in early summer
S C Pathak, Vandana Kulshrestha, Aran Knmar Choubey and
A H Parulekar ................................................................................................................. 233-240
Review Article
Evolution of chemical signals in the Asian elephant, Llephas
maximus: behavioural and ecological influences
L E L Rasmussen.............................................................................................................. 241-251
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Journal of Biosciences
Vol. 24, No. 3, September 1999
CONTENTS
Clipboard (J Manjrekar; Subhabrata Sanyaland Amit Basole) 253-257
Perspectives
The truth behind the legend: European doctors in pre-colonial India
RajeshKochhar 259-268
Articles
Characterization of DNA binding activities of over-expressed Kpnl
restriction endonuclease and modification methylase
Siddamadappa Chandmshekaran, Padmanabhan Babu and
Valakunja Nagaraja 269-277
How overproduction of foreign proteins affects physiology of the
recornbinant strains of Hansenula polymorpha
Vassili V Velkov, Vernonika Yu Matys and Dmitry M Sokolov 279-286
Cloning and characterization of salicylic acid-induced, intracellular
pathogenesis-related gene from tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum)
C 5 Srec Vidya, M Manoharan and G Lakshmi Sita 287-293
A bubaline-derived satellite DNA probe uncovers generic affinities
of gaur with other bovids
Pritha Ray, Supriya Gangadharan, Munmun Chattopadhyay,
Anu Bashamboo, Sunita Bhatnagar, Pradeep Kumar Malik and Sher Ali 295-299
Requirement of wingless signaling and engrailed action in the
development and differentiation of the reproductive system in
Drosophila
B Starling Emerald and J K Roy 301-316
Phosphorylation and dephosphorylation of Mg(2+)-independent
Ca(2+)-ATPase from goat spermatozoa
R Sikdar,KRoy,A K Mandal and P C Sen 317-321
Purification of human seminal acrosin inhibitor and its kinetics
Aditi ChaHerfee, Sagarika Kanjilal and Asok K Bhattacharyya 323-328
Relationship between power law coefficients and major blood
constituents affecting whole blood viscosity
Moharnmad A Hussam.Subir Kar and Ram R Puniyani 329-337
Hydrogen peroxide is a product of oxygen consumption by
Trichomonas vaginalis
Alan Chapman, David fLinstead and David Lloyd 339-344
Metamorphosis of the central nervous system of Drosophila
metanogaster Meigen (Diptera: Drosophilidae) during pupation
Kusum Singh and R Naresh Singh 345-360
Electron microscopical studies and restriction analysis of liclicoverpa
armigera nucleo polyhedrosis virus
S Sudhakar and S Mathavan 361-370
A simple microcapsule generator design for islet encapsulation
Anandluardhan A Hardikar, Makarand V Risbud and Ramesh R Bhonde 371-376
Review Articles
Boundaries that demarcate structural and functional domains of
chroma tin
Rakesh K Mishra and Francois Karch 377-399
Ascribing functions to the lamin B receptor
Durgadas P Kasbekar 401-408
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