Biology Bulletin - 39 (1)

Contents:


    Theoretical and Evolutionary Biology

    Origin of the plague microbe Yersinia pestis: Structure of the process of speciation

    V. V. Suntsov
       

    Developmental Biology

    Dynamics of body mass and oxygen consumption in the ontogeny of the Spanish ribbed newt (Pleurodeles waltl): 2. Larval stage

    I. G. Vladimirova, S. Yu. Kleimenov and T. A. Alekseeva
        

    Biochemistry

    Effects of smoking and tumor process on the contents of key proteins of apoptosis and activity of antioxidant enzymes in blood

    E. M. Mil’, S. M. Gurevich, A. I. Kozachenko, L. G. Nagler and A. A. Albantova, et al.
        

    Genetics

    Parallelism and paradoxes on viability and the life span of two loss-of-function mutations: Heat shock protein transcriptional regulator hsf1 and l(2)gl tumor suppressor in Drosophila melanogaster

    N. Ya. Weisman, M. B. Evgen’ev and M. D. Golubovskii
        

    Zoology

    Leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): Mushroom body simplification in the course of progressive evolution of the family

    A. A. Panov
        

    Zoology

    Biotope principles of sympatry and interspecies hybridization in mammals (by the example of the genus Spermophilus)

    S. V. Titov, A. A. Shmyrov and A. A. Kuz’min
        

    Zoology

    Maternal behavior of the Eurasian lynx Lynx lynx L. during the early postnatal ontogeny of its cubs

    A. A. Chagaeva and S. V. Naidenko
        

    Human and Animal Physiology

    Holographic construction of integrative cerebration

    K. V. Sudakov
        

    Human and Animal Physiology

    A complex of heparin with the peptide Arg-Pro-Gly-Pro and its anticoagulative, fibrinolytic, and hypoglycemia effects

    L. A. Lyapina, N. F. Myasoedov, L. A. Andreeva, T. Yu. Obergan and T. A. Shubina, et al.
        

    Ecology

    Factors influencing the hunting success of the predator: A model with sighthounds

    A. V. Shubkina, A. S. Severtsov and K. V. Chepeleva
        

    Ecology

    Destruction of mustard gas hydrolysis products by marine and soil bacteria

    N. G. Medvedeva, Yu. M. Polyak, T. B. Zaytseva and G. A. Zharikov
        

    Ecology

    Microbiological diagnostics of soil stage in the phyllosphere of the woodland ecosystem of Siberia

    N. D. Sorokin and E. N. Afanasova
        

    Short Communications

    Thermal preference and avoidance in cladoceran Daphnia magna strauss (crustacea, cladocera) acclimated to constant temperature

    V. B. Verbitskii and T. I. Verbitskaya
        

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