Articles
Volume 8 (2009) - February 2009
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Editorial
Miranda Robertson Journal of Biology 2009, 8:10 (27 February 2009) |
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Minireview
John J Wiens Journal of Biology 2009, 8:19 (24 February 2009) |
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Opinion
Why didn't Darwin discover Mendel's laws? Jonathan C Howard Journal of Biology 2009, 8:15 (24 February 2009) In an opinion piece, Jonathan Howard suggests that Darwin failed to discover the laws of inheritance (Mendel’s laws) due to his focus on small quantitative variations as the raw material of evolution.
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Opinion
Darwin and Huxley revisited: the origin of allometry Charles F Stevens Journal of Biology 2009, 8:14 (23 February 2009) Charles Stevens argues that evolution respects power laws, and that explains the way that organs scale with the size of the individual- first described by Julian Huxley as "allometry".
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Opinion
Mayr, mathematics and the study of evolution James F Crow Journal of Biology 2009, 8:13 (23 February 2009) James Crow picks up the gauntlet thrown down by Mayr at the feet of JBS Haldane, and describes the essential contribution of mathematics to the understanding of evolution from genetic drift to molecular clocks.
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Opinion
Evolutionary genomics and the reach of selection Laurence D Hurst Journal of Biology 2009, 8:12 (23 February 2009) Laurence Hurst explains how evolutionary genomics, married to an understanding of molecular mechanisms, can show the impact of selection where it is not expected.
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Question & Answer
Q&A: What did Charles Darwin prove? Paul Harvey Journal of Biology 2009, 8:11 (23 February 2009) Paul Harvey argues that Darwin was an accomplished 21st-century biologist and marvels that in his extensive studies on the inheritance of variation he failed to discover Mendel’s laws.
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Research article
Hong Lei, Jeffrey A Riffell, Stephanie L Gage, John G Hildebrand Journal of Biology 2009, 8:21 (20 February 2009) Discrete bursts of activity in the olfactory neurons of moths allow them to track drifting odors, essential for locating pheromone-releasing females.
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Minireview
Representations of odor plume flux are accentuated deep within the moth brain Thomas C Baker Journal of Biology 2009, 8:16 (20 February 2009) |
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Review
Robin A Weiss Journal of Biology 2009, 8:20 (10 February 2009) In a special issue to celebrate the bicentennial of Darwin's birth, Robin Weiss reviews recent speculations on human prehistory based on louse phylogeny, and adds his own on the origins of pubic hair.
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Minireview
Timing the first human migration into eastern Asia Roscoe Stanyon, Marco Sazzini, Donata Luiselli Journal of Biology 2009, 8:18 (6 February 2009) |
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Minireview
Conserved elements within open reading frames of mammalian Hox genes Joost M Woltering, Denis Duboule Journal of Biology 2009, 8:17 (6 February 2009) Joost Woltering and Denis Duboule, writing on a paper published in BMC Evolutionary Biology, discuss the increasing evidence for regulatory elements in the coding sequences of genes, and possible explanations of their specialized functions.
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