Caryologia - 64 (3), 2011

Contents:



Karyomorphology of some taxa of Paris (Melanthiaceae) from Sichuan province, China


YUE1 HAI-XIA, CHUN-BANG DING, RUI-WU YANG, LI ZHANG, YONG-HONG ZHOU and YAN LI



Cytogenetic Studies on Quercus L. (Fagaceae) species belonging to Ilex and Cerris section in Turkey


YILMAZ, AYKUT, EMEL USLU and M. TEKIN BABAÇ



Chromosome number variation in Tanacetum polycephalum Schultz Bip. (L.) (Asteraceae) in west of Iran


CHEHREGANI ABDOLKARIM , MORTEZA ATRI1, JALAL SARMADI and MAHTAB ASGARI



Main biological determinants of Continuous Cell Lines elucidated by a principal component analysis


ZAVEN A. KARALYAN, ZARINE R. TER-POGOSSYAN, NELLIE G. DJAGHATSPANYAN, LINA H. HAKOBYAN, HOVAKIM S. ZAKARYAN, LIANA O. ABROYAN, ARSEN A. ARAKELYAN, ZARA B. SEMERJYAN, HENRY E. VOSKANYAN and ELENA M. KARALOVA



New occurrence of B chromosomes in Rheum tanguticum Maxim. ex Balf. (Polygonaceae)


HU YANPING, LI WANG and YI LI



Cytogenetics of the permanent translocation heterozygote Rhoeo spathacea var. variegata. Implications for complex chromosome rearrangements in Rhoeo


GOLCZYK HIERONIM



Chromosome numbers and karyotypes of some taxa of genus Artemisia (Asteraceae, Anthemideae) subgenus Dracunculus (Bess.) Rydb


TABUR, SELMA, ŞEMSETTIN CIVELEK, SIGNEM ÖNEY, ŞADIYE BETÜL YILMAZ and MURAT KURŞAT



Identification of tetraploid mutants of Platycodon grandiflorus by colchicine induction


YUXIANG WU, FUHONG YANG, XIAOMING ZHAO and WUDE YANG



Karyological investigations on several species of genus Rebutia Sect. Digitorebutia (Cactaceae)


MOSTI STEFANO, GRAZIANA FIORINI and ALESSIO PAPINI









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Annals of Botany - 109 (4), 2012

Contents:

ContentSnapshots

Plant Cuttings
 Chaffey, Nigel

Maximum likelihood inference implies a high, not a low, ancestral haploid chromosome number in Araceae, with a critique of the bias introduced by `x'
 Cusimano, Natalie; Sousa, Aretuza; Renner, Susanne S.

Accelerated evolution and coevolution drove the evolutionary history of AGPase sub-units during angiosperm radiation
 Corbi, Jonathan; Dutheil, Julien Y.; Damerval, Catherine; Tenaillon, Maud I.; Manicacci, Domenica

Reproductive isolation and hybridization in sympatric populations of three Dactylorhiza species (Orchidaceae) with different ploidy levels
 De Hert, Koen; Jacquemyn, Hans; Van Glabeke, Sabine; Roldán-Ruiz, Isabel; Vandepitte, Katrien; Leus, Leen; Honnay, Olivier

Annual increments of juniper dwarf shrubs above the tree line on the central Tibetan Plateau: a useful climatic proxy
 Liang, Eryuan; Lu, Xiaoming; Ren, Ping; Li, Xiaoxia; Zhu, Liping; Eckstein, Dieter

Seed banks on Attalea phalerata (Arecaceae) stems in the Pantanal wetland, Brazil
 Correa, Christiane E.; Fischer, Erich; Santos, Flavio A. M. dos

Acidic ?-galactosidase is the most abundant nectarin in floral nectar of common tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum)
 Zha, Hong-Guang; Flowers, V. Lynn; Yang, Min; Chen, Ling-Yang; Sun, Hang

Quantitative trait loci for seed yield and yield-related traits, and their responses to reduced phosphorus supply in Brassica napus
 Ding, Guangda; Zhao, Zunkang; Liao, Yuan; Hu, Yifan; Shi, Lei; Long, Yan; Xu, Fangsen

Floral traits mediate the vulnerability of aloes to pollen theft and inefficient pollination by bees
 Hargreaves, Anna L.; Harder, Lawrence D.; Johnson, Steven D.

Amplification, contraction and genomic spread of a satellite DNA family (E180) in Medicago (Fabaceae) and allied genera
 Rosato, Marcela; Galián, José A.; Rosselló, Josep A.

The multiple fuzzy origins of woodiness within Balsaminaceae using an integrated approach. Where do we draw the line?
 Lens, Frederic; Eeckhout, Sharon; Zwartjes, Rosa; Smets, Erik; Janssens, Steven B.

Mineral nutrient stoichiometric variability in Hedera helix (Araliaceae) seeds
 Obeso, José Ramón

Restoration of tensile strength in bark samples of Ficus benjamina due to coagulation of latex during fast self-healing of fissures
 Bauer, Georg; Speck, Thomas

Effects of soil nutrient heterogeneity on intraspecific competition in the invasive, clonal plant Alternanthera philoxeroides
 Zhou, Jian; Dong, Bi-Cheng; Alpert, Peter; Li, Hong-Li; Zhang, Ming-Xiang; Lei, Guang-Chun; Yu, Fei-Hai

Physiological, biochemical and transcriptional analysis of onion bulbs during storage
 Chope, Gemma A.; Cools, Katherine; Hammond, John P.; Thompson, Andrew J.; Terry, Leon A.

The effect of environmental heterogeneity on RPW8-mediated resistance to powdery mildews in Arabidopsis thaliana
 Jorgensen, Tove H.

Asynchronous flowering and within-plant flowering diversity in wheat and the implications for crop resilience to heat
 Lukac, Martin; Gooding, Michael J.; Griffiths, Simon; Jones, Hannah E.

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African Journal of Ecology - 50 (1), 2012

Contents:

Original articles

  
    Estimating demographics of the Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus Laurenti) in the panhandle region of the Okavango Delta, Botswana (pages 1–8)

    Sven L. Bourquin and Alison J. Leslie

   
    African elephant age determination from teeth: validation from known individuals (pages 9–20)

    Phyllis C. Lee, Soila Sayialel, W. Keith Lindsay and Cynthia J. Moss

   
    The effect of frugivory on postdispersal seed removal and germination in the pantropical forest tree Antiaris toxicaria Leschenault (pages 21–28)

    Bright O. Kankam and William Oduro

   
    Comparative effects of four herbicides on physiological aspects in Triticum sativum L. (pages 29–42)

    Fayza A. Faheed

  
    Spatial variations of microinvertebrates across different microhabitats of temporary floodplains of lower Okavango Delta, Botswana (pages 43–52)

    Nqobizitha Siziba, Moses J. Chimbari, Hillary Masundire and Ketlhatlogile Mosepele

    
    Morphomeristic study of sympatric Barbus species from a man-made reservoir in upland Kenya (pages 53–59)

    Kennedy E. Osuka and Chrisestom M. Mlewa

   
    Anti-helminth-induced changes in the prevalence of entodiniomorphid ciliates in semi-captive chimpanzees (pages 60–65)

    Obanda Vincent, Chege Stephen and Chiyo Patrick

   
    Protected area gap analysis of important bird areas in Tanzania (pages 66–76)

    Shakthi Sritharan and Neil D. Burgess

  
    Assessment of indicator species of butterfly assemblages in coffee–banana farming system in central Uganda (pages 77–89)

    Théodore Munyuli

  
    Fruiting phenology of fig trees in Kalinzu Forest, Uganda (pages 90–101)

    Hosea D. R. Muhanguzi and Perpetua Ipulet

   
    Species diversity and abundance of small mammals in Nechisar National Park, Ethiopia (pages 102–108)

    Sintayehu Workeneh, Afework Bekele and Mundanthra Balakrishnan

   
    Effects of forest fragmentation on pollination of Mesogyne insignis (Moraceae) in Amani Nature Reserve forests, Tanzania (pages 109–116)

    Moses I. Olotu, Henry J. Ndangalasi and Bruno A. Nyundo

  
Notes and records

   
    Using the past to manage for the future: contributions of early travel literature, free online, to African historical ecology (pages 117–119)

    Paul Scholte


    The resilience of the medicinal plant community of rehabilitating coastal dune forests, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (pages 120–123)

    Matthew Grainger and Rudi van Aarde


Book review

  
    Soils of South Africa (page 124)

    Mateete Bekunda

    
 
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Plant Breeding - 131 (1), 2012

Contents:

REVIEW ARTICLE


Breeding for resistance to ear rots caused by Fusarium spp. in maize – a review (pages 1–19)

Ákos Mesterházy, Marc Lemmens and Lana M. Reid


ORIGINAL ARTICLES


Identification of candidate gene–based SSR markers for lysine and tryptophan metabolic pathways in maize (Zea mays) (pages 20–27)

Banisetti K. Babu, Pawan K. Agrawal, Hari S. Gupta, Anil Kumar and Jagadeesh C. Bhatt


Inheritance of resistance to Gibberella ear rot and deoxynivalenol contamination in five flint maize crosses (pages 28–32)

Matthias Martin, Baldev S. Dhillon, Thomas Miedaner and Albrecht E. Melchinger


Mapping QTL for heat tolerance at flowering stage in rice using SNP markers (pages 33–41)

Changrong Ye, May A. Argayoso, Edilberto D. Redona, Sheryl N. Sierra, Marcelino A. Laza, Christine J. Dilla, Youngjun Mo, Michael J. Thomson, Joonghyoun Chin, Celia B. Delavina, Genaleen Q. Diaz and Jose E. Hernandez


Mapping of tms8 gene for temperature-sensitive genic male sterility (TGMS) in rice (Oryza sativa L.) (pages 42–47)

Appibhai J. Hussain, Jauhar Ali, Ebrahimali A. Siddiq, Vidya S. Gupta, Umesh K. Reddy and Prabhakar K. Ranjekar


Characterization of quantitative trait loci for number of primary branches in near-isogenic lines from a cross between the Oryza sativa cultivar ‘Hwayeongbyeo’ and the wild relative Oryza rufipogon (pages 48–53)

Shi-Dong Ji, Ping-Rong Yuan, Luo Xiao, Hyun-Sook Lee and Sang-Nag Ahn


Rapid phenotyping for adult-plant resistance to stripe rust in wheat (pages 54–61)

Lee T. Hickey, Peter M. Wilkinson, Cheridan R. Knight, Ian D. Godwin, Olena Y. Kravchuk, Elizabeth A. B. Aitken, Urmil K. Bansal, Harbans S. Bariana, Ian H. De Lacy and Mark J. Dieters


Assessment of the effects of the Gpc-B1 allele on senescence rate, grain protein concentration and mineral content in hard red spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) from the Pacific Northwest Region of the USA (pages 62–68)

Arron H. Carter, Dipak K. Santra and Kimberlee K. Kidwell


Development and identification of wheat–barley 2H chromosome translocation lines carrying the Isa gene (pages 69–74)

Hongda Zou, Ying Wu, Hongkui Liu, Zhishan Lin, Xingguo Ye, Xiao Chen and Yaping Yuan


Allelopathic potential of Triticum spp., Secale spp. and Triticosecale spp. and use of chromosome substitutions and translocations to improve weed suppression ability in winter wheat (pages 75–80)

Nils-Ove Bertholdsson, Staffan C. Andersson and Arnulf Merker


Molecular cytogenetic identification of a wheat-Aegilops geniculata Roth spontaneous chromosome substitution and its effects on the growth and physiological responses of seedlings to osmotic stress (pages 81–87)

Svetlana Landjeva, Konstantina Kocheva, Tania Karceva, Adél Sepsi, István Molnár, Annamária Schneider, Ganka Ganeva, Georgi Georgiev and Márta Molnár-Láng


Male parent effects on stigma receptivity and seed set of sorghum A-lines under chilling field temperatures (pages 88–93)

Ma. Eugenia Cisneros-López, Leopoldo E. Mendoza-Onofre and Víctor A. González-Hernández


Influence of types of sterile cytoplasm on the resistance to sorghum shoot fly (Atherigona soccata) (pages 94–99)

Umakanth V. Akula, Padmaja G. Poluru, Ashok Kumar Jangam and Patil V. Jagannath


Quantitative genetic parameters for selection of biomass yield in hybrid rye (pages 100–103)

Thomas Miedaner, Silvia Koch, Andreas Seggl, Brigitta Schmiedchen and Peer Wilde


Estimation of heritability of benzoxazinoid production in rye (Secale cereale) using gas chromatographic analysis (pages 104–109)

Ashley M. Brooks, David A. Danehower, J. Paul Murphy, S. Chris Reberg-Horton and James D. Burton


Efficiency of PowerCore in core set development using amplified fragment length polymorphic markers in mungbean (pages 110–117)

Kyaw Thu Moe, Jae-Gyun Gwag and Yong-Jin Park


Development of EST-derived SSR markers in pea (Pisum sativum) and their potential utility for genetic mapping and transferability (pages 118–124)

Raghvendra K. Mishra, Baniekal H. Gangadhar, Akula Nookaraju, Sushil Kumar and Se W. Park


Participatory approach in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) breeding for drought tolerance for southern Ethiopia (pages 125–134)

Asrat Asfaw, Conny J. M. Almekinders, Matthew W. Blair and Paul C. Struik


Meiotic analysis of the hybrids between cultivated and synthetic tetraploid groundnuts (pages 135–138)

Nalini Mallikarjuna, Sandhya Srikanth, Ravi K. Vellanki, Deepak R. Jadhav, Kumkum Das and Hari D. Upadhyaya


Highly informative genic and genomic SSR markers to facilitate molecular breeding in cultivated groundnut (Arachis hypogaea) (pages 139–147)

Manish K. Pandey, Bhimana Gautami, Thandoniappan Jayakumar, Manda Sriswathi, Hari D. Upadhyaya, Makanahally V. Chennabyre Gowda, Thankappan Radhakrishnan, David J. Bertioli, Steven J. Knapp, Duglas R. Cook and Rajeev K. Varshney


Evaluation of a peanut collection for shell-colour traits in two diverse soil types (pages 148–154)

Ran Hovav, Hana Badani, Idit Ginzberg, Ilan Chedvat, Yael Brand and Shmuel Galili


Male Sterility in three crop Lupinus species (pages 155–163)

Jon C. Clements, Julia Wilson, Mark W. Sweetingham, John Quealy and Gordon Francis


Improved production of doubled haploids in Brassica rapa through microspore culture (pages 164–169)

Yun Zhang, Aijie Wang, Yang Liu, Yushu Wang and Hui Feng


The downy mildew resistance locus Pp523 is located on chromosome C8 of Brassica oleracea L. (pages 170–175)

Jorge D. Carlier, Claudia A. Alabaça, Paula S. Coelho, António A. Monteiro and José M. Leitao


A simple and rapid procedure for identification of seed coat colour at the early developmental stage of Brassica juncea and Brassica napus seeds (pages 176–179)

Ying Lu, Xianjun Liu, Shuyan Liu, Yingchun Yue, Chunyun Guan and Zhongsong Liu


Morphological traits of phytomers and shoots in the first year of growth as markers for predicting apple tree canopy architecture (pages 180–185)

Vidmantas Bendokas, Dalia Gelvonauskiene, Tadeusas Siksnianas, Grazina Staniene, Jurate B. Siksnianiene, Bronislovas Gelvonauskis and Vidmantas Stanys


Development of sequence-tagged site markers linked to the pillar growth type in peach (Prunus persica) (pages 186–192)

Osama Sajer, Ralph Scorza, Chris Dardick, Tetyana Zhebentyayeva, Albert G. Abbott and Renate Horn


Chromosomal regions associated with dollar spot resistance in colonial bentgrass (pages 193–197)

David Rotter, Emily Merewitz, Bingru Huang and Faith C. Belanger


Recurrent selection for increased seed germination in sand bluestem (Andropogon hallii) (pages 198–202)

Tim L. Springer


Parent–offspring correlation estimate of heritability for late blight resistance conferred by an accession of the tomato wild species Solanum pimpinellifolium (pages 203–210)

Heather L. Merk and Majid R. Foolad


The expression of pectin methylesterase in onion flower buds is associated with the dominant male-fertility restoration allele (pages 211–216)

Yumeng Huo, Jun Miao, Bingjiang Liu, Yanyan Yang, Yihui Zhang, Yasuki Tahara, Qingwei Meng, Qiwei He, Hidemi Kitano and Xiong Wu


SHORT COMMUNICATIONS


Inheritance of foliar blast resistance in pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) (pages 217–219)

Shashi K. Gupta, Rajan Sharma, Kedar N. Rai and Ram P. Thakur


Inheritance of resistance to sunflower broomrape (Orobanche cumana Wallr.) in an interspecific cross between Helianthus annuus and Helianthus debilis subsp. tardiflorus (pages 220–221)

Leonardo Velasco, Begona Pérez-Vich, Ahmed A. M. Yassein, Chao-Chien Jan and José M. Fernández-Martínez


Additional pea EST-SSR markers for comparative mapping in pea (Pisum sativum L.) (pages 222–226)

Jason De Caire , Clarice J. Coyne, Sarah Brumett and Jeffry L. Shultz


Genomic variation of new cultivars selected from distant hybridization in Lilium (pages 227–230)

Xianxian Zhang, Guiling Ren, Kehu Li, Guixue Zhou and Shujun Zhou


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Molecular Biology and Evolution - 28 (5-6), 2011

Molecular Biology and Evolution - 28 (5), 2011



Contents:

Dvir Dahary, Reut Shalgi, and Yitzhak Pilpel
CpG Islands as a Putative Source for Animal miRNAs: Evolutionary and Functional Implications

Zhaofeng Wang, Takahiro Yonezawa, Bin Liu, Tao Ma, Xin Shen, Jianping Su, Songchang Guo, Masami Hasegawa, and Jianquan Liu
Domestication Relaxed Selective Constraints on the Yak Mitochondrial Genome

Sara Guirao-Rico and Montserrat Aguadé
Molecular Evolution of the Ligands of the Insulin-Signaling Pathway: dilp Genes in the Genus Drosophila

Claus Kemkemer, Winfried Hense, and John Parsch
Fine-Scale Analysis of X Chromosome Inactivation in the Male Germ Line of Drosophila melanogaster

Vanessa E. Gray and Sudhir Kumar
Rampant Purifying Selection Conserves Positions with Posttranslational Modifications in Human Proteins

Jared L. Strasburg, Nolan C. Kane, Andrew R. Raduski, Aurélie Bonin, Richard Michelmore, and Loren H. Rieseberg
Effective Population Size Is Positively Correlated with Levels of Adaptive Divergence among Annual Sunflowers

Janette Tong, Pavel Dolezal, Joel Selkrig, Simon Crawford, Alistair G.B. Simpson, Nicholas Noinaj, Susan K. Buchanan, Kipros Gabriel, and Trevor Lithgow
Ancestral and Derived Protein Import Pathways in the Mitochondrion of Reclinomonas americana

Rebecca R. Gray, Andrew J. Tatem, Judith A. Johnson, Alexander V. Alekseyenko, Oliver G. Pybus, Marc A. Suchard, and Marco Salemi
Testing Spatiotemporal Hypothesis of Bacterial Evolution Using Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST239 Genome-wide Data within a Bayesian Framework

Diana Edo-Matas, Philippe Lemey, Jennifer A. Tom, Celia Serna-Bolea, Agnes E. van den Blink, Angélique B. van 't Wout, Hanneke Schuitemaker, and Marc A. Suchard
Impact of CCR5delta32 Host Genetic Background and Disease Progression on HIV-1 Intrahost Evolutionary Processes: Efficient Hypothesis Testing through Hierarchical Phylogenetic Models

Yosef E. Maruvka, Nadav M. Shnerb, Yaneer Bar-Yam, and John Wakeley
Recovering Population Parameters from a Single Gene Genealogy: An Unbiased Estimator of the Growth Rate

Dmitri A. Petrov, Anna-Sophie Fiston-Lavier, Mikhail Lipatov, Kapa Lenkov, and Josefa González
Population Genomics of Transposable Elements in Drosophila melanogaster

Sophie Breton, Donald T. Stewart, Sally Shepardson, Richard J. Trdan, Arthur E. Bogan, Eric G. Chapman, Andrew J. Ruminas, Helen Piontkivska, and Walter R. Hoeh
Novel Protein Genes in Animal mtDNA: A New Sex Determination System in Freshwater Mussels (Bivalvia: Unionoida)?

Jihua Wu and Edward Susko
A Test for Heterotachy Using Multiple Pairs of Sequences

Jeffrey M. Good, Dan Vanderpool, Kimberly L. Smith, and Michael W. Nachman
Extraordinary Sequence Divergence at Tsga8, an X-linked Gene Involved in Mouse Spermiogenesis

Christina Lange, Georg Hemmrich, Ulrich C. Klostermeier, Javier A. López-Quintero, David J. Miller, Tasja Rahn, Yvonne Weiss, Thomas C.G. Bosch, and Philip Rosenstiel
Defining the Origins of the NOD-Like Receptor System at the Base of Animal Evolution

Miguel Alcaide and Scott V. Edwards
Molecular Evolution of the Toll-Like Receptor Multigene Family in Birds

Jeremiah W. Busch, Simon Joly, and Daniel J. Schoen
Demographic Signatures Accompanying the Evolution of Selfing in Leavenworthia alabamica

Penelope R. Haddrill, Kai Zeng, and Brian Charlesworth
Determinants of Synonymous and Nonsynonymous Variability in Three Species of Drosophila

Asher D. Cutter and Alan M. Moses
Polymorphism, Divergence, and the Role of Recombination in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Genome Evolution

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Molecular Biology and Evolution - 28 (6), 2011



Contents:

Research Articles

Mario dos Reis, Asif U. Tamuri, Alan J. Hay, and Richard A. Goldstein
Charting the Host Adaptation of Influenza Viruses

Haruka Nagai, Yohey Terai, Tohru Sugawara, Hiroo Imai, Hidenori Nishihara, Michio Hori, and Norihiro Okada
Reverse Evolution in RH1 for Adaptation of Cichlids to Water Depth in Lake Tanganyika

Lars Feuerbach, Rune B. Lyngso, Thomas Lengauer, and Jotun Hein
Reconstructing the Ancestral Germ Line Methylation State of Young Repeats

Hong-Song Yu, Yi-Hong Shen, Gang-Xiang Yuan, Yong-Gang Hu, Hong-En Xu, Zhong-Huai Xiang, and Ze Zhang
Evidence of Selection at Melanin Synthesis Pathway Loci during Silkworm Domestication

Miguel Carneiro, Sandra Afonso, Armando Geraldes, Hervé Garreau, Gerard Bolet, Samuel Boucher, Aurélie Tircazes, Guillaume Queney, Michael W. Nachman, and Nuno Ferrand
The Genetic Structure of Domestic Rabbits

Larissa M. Williams and Marjorie F. Oleksiak
Ecologically and Evolutionarily Important SNPs Identified in Natural Populations

Anna van Weringh, Manon Ragonnet-Cronin, Erinija Pranckeviciene, Mariana Pavon-Eternod, Lawrence Kleiman, and Xuhua Xia
HIV-1 Modulates the tRNA Pool to Improve Translation Efficiency

Caroline J. Rose, Joanne R. Chapman, Sean D.G. Marshall, Siu F. Lee, Philip Batterham, Howard A. Ross, and Richard D. Newcomb
Selective Sweeps at the Organophosphorus Insecticide Resistance Locus, Rop-1, Have Affected Variation across and beyond the ?-Esterase Gene Cluster in the Australian Sheep Blowfly, Lucilia cuprina

Emmanuel D. Ladoukakis, Ioannis Theologidis, George C. Rodakis, and Eleftherios Zouros
Homologous Recombination between Highly Diverged Mitochondrial Sequences: Examples from Maternally and Paternally Transmitted Genomes

Sandra Schwarte and Ralph Tiedemann
A Gene Duplication/Loss Event in the Ribulose-1,5-Bisphosphate-Carboxylase/Oxygenase (Rubisco) Small Subunit Gene Family among Accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana

Vladimir Paar, Matko Glunčić, Marija Rosandić, Ivan Basar, and Ines Vlahović
Intragene Higher Order Repeats in Neuroblastoma BreakPoint Family Genes Distinguish Humans from Chimpanzees

Richard P. Meisel
Towards a More Nuanced Understanding of the Relationship between Sex-Biased Gene Expression and Rates of Protein-Coding Sequence Evolution

Xianran Li, Chengsong Zhu, Zhongwei Lin, Yun Wu, Dabao Zhang, Guihua Bai, Weixing Song, Jianxin Ma, Gary J. Muehlbauer, Michael J. Scanlon, Min Zhang, and Jianming Yu
Chromosome Size in Diploid Eukaryotic Species Centers on the Average Length with a Conserved Boundary

Kalle T. Rytkönen, Tom A. Williams, Gillian M. Renshaw, Craig R. Primmer, and Mikko Nikinmaa
Molecular Evolution of the Metazoan PHD–HIF Oxygen-Sensing System

M. Andreína Pacheco, Fabia U. Battistuzzi, Miguel Lentino, Roberto F. Aguilar, Sudhir Kumar, and Ananias A. Escalante
Evolution of Modern Birds Revealed by Mitogenomics: Timing the Radiation and Origin of Major Orders

Akie Sato, Herbert Tichy, Peter R. Grant, B. Rosemary Grant, Tetsuji Sato, and Colm O’hUigin
Spectrum of MHC Class II Variability in Darwin’s Finches and Their Close Relatives

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New Zealand Journal of Botany - 48 (3-4), 2010

Contents:


Editorials

Editorial
Sue Wilkins

Obituary

OBITUARY
A.R. Ferguson & P.K.Buchanan

Articles

An investigation of the glandular and non-glandular foliar trichomes of Orthosiphon labiatus N.E.Br. [Lamiaceae]
A. Bhatt, Y. Naidoo & A. Nicholas

Immature leaves of Weinmannia racemosa are more heat tolerant than mature leaves based on differences in chlorophyll a fluorescence and solute leakage
J.S. Choinski Jr & K.S. Gould

Introduced Dioscorea spp. starch in Lapita and later deposits, Vao Island, Vanuatu
M. Horrocks & S. Bedford

How arboreal are epiphytes? A null model for Benzing's classifications
K.C. Burns

Rosenvingea (Ectocarpales, Scytosiphonaceae) – a new brown macroalgal record for New Zealand
W.A. Nelson & M.D. Wilcox

New chromosome counts in New Zealand species of Plantago (Plantaginaceae)
B.G. Murray, H.M. Meudt, M.L. Tay & P.J. Garnock-Jones

Testing species limits of New Zealand Plantago (Plantaginaceae) using internal transcribed spacer (ITS) DNA sequences
M.L. Tay, H.M. Meudt, P.J. Garnock-Jones & P.A. Ritchie

Taxonomic notes on the New Zealand flora: ×Carpophyma mutabilis and ×Carpophyma pallida (Aizoaceae), new names for two wild intergeneric hybrids
P.B. Heenan & W.R. Sykes

Paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) as a commensal model for human mobility in Oceania: anthropological, botanical and genetic considerations
D. Seelenfreund, A.C. Clarke, N. Oyanedel, R. Pina, S. Lobos, E.A. Matisoo-Smith & A .Seelenfreund

Book Reviews
An Illustrated Guide to Common Weeds of New Zealand, 3rd edn
Rob Lucas

Threatened Plants of New Zealand
Alan F. Mark

Miscellany
Erratum

Caryologia - 64 (1-2), 2011

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Caryologia - 64 (1), 2011


Contents:

KOHLI RASHMI, MONIKA SHARMA and SUDARSHAN CHAUDHRY - DNA Fingerprinting and Phylogenetics of Five Species Of Genus Culex Using ITS2 Sequence (Diptera: Culicidae)

DONG LUO, DAN LIU, BO XU, ZE-LONG NIE, HANG SUN and ZHI-MIN LI - A karyological study of six species of Silene L. (Caryophyllaceae) from the Hengduan Mountains, SW China

CHATTERJEE AVIJEET, SUDHIR SHUKLA, ANU RASTOGI, BRIJ K. MISHRA, D. OHRI and S.P. SINGH - Impact of mutagenesis on cytological behavior in relation to specifi c alkaloids in Opium Poppy (Papaver somniferum L.)

KUMAR PUNEET, SINGHAL VIJAY KUMAR, RANA PAWAN KUMAR, KAUR SHUBHPREET and KAUR DALVIR - Cytology of Ranunculus laetus Wall. ex Royle from cold desert regions and adjoining hills of North-west Himalayas (India)

SOMANATH PADHI, RAJLAXMI SARANGI, PRANATI MOHANTY, RUPA DAS, SUKUMAR CHAKRAVARTY, RAGHUMANI MOHANTY and RACHEL THOMAS JACOB - Cytogenetic profile of pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL): analysis of 31 cases with review of literature

KARIMZADEH GHASEM, MARYAM DANESH-GILEVAEI and MAJID AGHAALIKHANI – Karyotypic and Nuclear DNA Variations in Lathyrus sativus (Fabaceae)

OZCAN MELAHAT, SEMA HAYIRLIOGLU-AYAZ and HUSEYIN INCEER - Chromosome reports in some Cirsium (Asteraceae, Cardueae) taxa from north-east Anatolia

WANG YI, HOU-YANG KANG, HAI-QIN ZHANG, XING FAN, LI-NA SHA, RUI-WU YANG and YONG-HONG ZHOU - Distribution of chromosome numbers in BC2 and BC1F1 progenies derived from Triticum aestivum × Psathyrostachys huashanica

RAWAT DEEPIKA, SANTOSH KUMAR SHARMA, ARMAN MAHMOUDI and SATYAWADA RAMA RAO - Cytogenetic Rationale for Probable Amphidiploid Origin of Dipcadi erythraeum Webb. & Berth. - A Rare and Endemic Plant of Indian Thar Desert

DIAO YING, CHEN QINGFU, LIN XIANMING, LIAO CHAOLIN, HU ZHONGLI and YOUWEI WANG - Karyotype characterization of Epimedium species (Berberidaceae) by fl uorescent banding and physical mapping of 45S and 5S rDNA

YOSHIKO KONO, YOSHIKAZU HOSHI, HIROAKI SETOGUCHI, MASATSUGU YOKOTA and KAZUO OGINUMA - Distribution patterns of rDNAs and telomeres and chromosomal rearrangement between two cytotypes of Lysimachia mauritiana L. (Primulaceae)

ISMAILOGLU ISIL and MERAL UNAL - Structural and cytochemical analysis of female reproductive development in Ornithogalum sigmoideum Freyn & Sint

SOUSA SAULO M., ARYANE C. REIS, PÂMELA S. SILVA and LYDERSON F. VICCINI - An increment in the Duranta repens L. (Verbenaceae) knowledge: DNA content, karyology, meiosis and palynolog

DUYGU AKDENIZ and ALI ÖZMEN - Antimitotic effects of the biopesticide oxymatrine

MARTINEZ JULIANA F., ROBERTO L. LUI, DANIEL R. BLANCO, JOSIANE B. TRALDI, LUCIANA F. SILVA, PAULO C. VENERE, ISSAKAR L. SOUZA and ORLANDO MOREIRA-FILHO - Comparative cytogenetics of three populations from the Rhamdia quelen species complex (Siluriformes, Heptapteridae) in two Brazilian hydrographic basins

WAHEEB K. HENEEN, Two DVDs on ”The Beauty of Mitosis”


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Caryologia - 64 (2), 2011


Contents:


Spectrum of chromosomal configurations in pollen mother cells of Rhoeo spathacea (Swartz) Stearn

Koul, Kuldeep Kumar, Ranjna Nagpal and Alok Arun


First nuclear DNA amounts in diploid (2n = 2x = 14) Corchorus spp. by fl ow cytometry: genome sizes in the cultivated jute species (C. capsularis L. and C. olitorius L.) are ~300% smaller than the reported estimate of 1100-1350 Mb

Debabrata Sarkar, Avijit Kundu, Anindita Saha, Nur Alam Mondal, Mohit Kumar Sinha and Bikash Sinha Mahapatra


Cytogenetic studies in Podocnemis expansa and Podocnemis sextuberculata (Testudines, Podocnemididae), turtles of the Brazilian Amazon

Cleiton Fantin and Luiz Alberto dos Santos Monjeló


A karyomorphological study on two newly recorded taxa of Lycoris (Amaryllidaceae) in Anhui province, China

Liu Kun, Shoubiao Zhou**, Ying Wang and Dong Zhang


Development and programmed Cell Death in the Filament Cells of Lathyrus undulatus Boiss.

Vardar Filiz and Meral Ünal


Micronucleus analysis and mitotic index in a Jordanian population exposed to pesticides of organophosphate: malathion and chlorpyrifos

Omari Yousif I.


Karyotypic studies of Meriones dahli Shidlovsky, 1962 (Rodentia: Muridae) from Turkey

Nursel AŞan Baydemir, Yasin DemirbaŞ, Nahit PamukoGlu, Irfan Albayrak and Tuba YaGci


Cytological study the genus Chesneya Lindl. (Fabaceae) in Turkey

Hakan Sepet, Canan Özdemir and Bahittin BozdaG


Morphometric pattern of somatic chromosomes in three Romanian seabuckthorn genotypes

Truta, Elena, Gabriela Capraru, Craita Maria Rosu, Maria Magdalena Zamfirache, Zenovia Olteanu and Ciprian Manzu


The arrangement of pericentromeres during meiotic prophase I in the permanent translocation heterozygote Rhoeo spathacea

Hieronim Golczyk


Karyotype studies in Mimosa (Mimosoideae, Leguminosae) from Southern South America and ecological and taxonomic relationships

Morales Matías, Arturo F. Wulff, Renée H. Fortunato and Lidia Poggio


C-heterochromatin variation and NOR distribution in the karyotype of water vole, Arvicola terrestris (Mammalia, Rodentia)

Arslan1 Atilla, Tarkan Yorulmaz, Kubilay Toyran, Serdar Gözütok and Jan Zima


Cytogenetic and histological approach for early detection of “mantled” somaclonal variants of oil palm regenerated by somatic embryogenesis: first results on the characterization of regeneration system

Giorgetti Lucia, Monica Ruffini Castiglione, Alessandra Turrini, Vittoria Nuti Ronchi and Chiara Geri


A Simple Technique for Chromosome Preparation from Embryonic Tissues of teleosts for Ploidy Verification

Padmaja Jayaprasad Pradeep1, Thekkeparambil Chandrabose Srijaya, Rosnah Binti Mohd Zain, Alessio Papini and Anil Kumar Chatterji





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Chromosome Numbers in Ferocactus (Cactaceae:Cactoideae)

J.Hugo-Cota, Jon P.Rebman,Robert S.Wallace

Chromosome Numbers in Ferocactus (Cactaceae:Cactoideae)

Cytologia (Japan Mendel Society)61:431-437,1996

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