Vol. 77, B, Part I ( January to March ) 2007

CONTENTS

Lead Articles

RNA polymerase II and eukaryotic transcription : The 2006 Noble Prize in Chemistry

P.K. Gupta…1

Review Article

Plant metabolomics – An overview

B.S. Sekhon and Sucheta Sharma… 11

Animal Sciences

Occurrence of fatty outgrowth from lips in the Indian leaf-nosed bat, Hipposideros lankadiva lankadiva (Kelaart) 

Nisar A. Khan and K.B. Karim… 26

Histoarchitecuture of x-organ-sinus gland complex of freshwater prawn, Macrobrachium gangeticum

Akhilsh Kumar Gupta and D. Roy… 35

Dissection of courtship behaviour elements in a few members of the nasuta-albomicans complex of Drosophila 

            Shilpa M.C. and H.A. Ranganath… 40

Detrimental effect of fungicides on Spilarctia obliqua (Walker) (Lepidoptera : Arctiidae)

                        Garima Gupta, A.K. Bhattacharya and Shri Ram…. 53  

Environmental Sciences

Lichens as bioindicators : chemometerical classification of biomonitoring analytical data for heavy metals

                        S.K. Katiyar and Rachna Katiyar…. 65

Effect of seed treatment and nursery application of certain insecticides against yellow stem borero n semi deep water rice 

                        S.S. Prasad, P.K. Gupta and B.L. Kanaujia…. 73

Microbiology

Efficacy of microbial inoculants for improving the performance of Sesamum 

                        S.S. Kehri, Sudhir Chandra, Varun Khare and H.K. Kehri… 77

Microbial flora of gut of Antarctic skua

Pramod W. Ramteke and M. Kuddus….84

Plant Sciences

Cyto-morphology based basal and sub-basal level evolutionary relationship among Isoetes L. species with special reference to Indian taxa  

            P.K. Shukla, G.K. Srivastava, S.K. Shukla and S.K. Singh…. 88

Antifungal potential of polyalthia longifolia Benth. & Hook leaves

            Tripta Jain and Kanika Sharma…. 105