In this issue

A Swimming Success
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 2301i. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tryptophan Sweetens Fishes' Temper
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 2302i. [Full Text] [PDF]  

How the Shark Got its Hammer Head
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 2303i-2304. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Paint Your Own Plumage by Numbers
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 2304i. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Book Review

Donald C. Jackson

Back to the beginning: The Rise of Experimental Biology: An Illustrated History
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 3577. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Commentary

Philip E. Bickler and Paul H. Donohoe

Adaptive responses of vertebrate neurons to hypoxia
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 3579-3586. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Perspective

Richard F. Burton

Temperature and acid—base balance in ectothermic vertebrates: the imidazole alphastat hypotheses and beyond
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 3587-3600. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Research Articles

S. B. Kanatous, R. W. Davis, R. Watson, L. Polasek, T. M. Williams, and O. Mathieu-Costello

Aerobic capacities in the skeletal muscles of Weddell seals: key to longer dive durations?
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 3601-3608. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Stephen M. Kajiura and Kim N. Holland

Electroreception in juvenile scalloped hammerhead and sandbar sharks
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 3609-3621. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Movie]  

Georgia C. Atella and Mohammed Shahabuddin

Differential partitioning of maternal fatty acid and phospholipid in neonate mosquito larvae
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 3623-3630. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Holly A. Shiels, Matti Vornanen, and Anthony P. Farrell

Temperature dependence of cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum function in rainbow trout myocytes
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 3631-3639. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Holly A. Shiels, Matti Vornanen, and Anthony P. Farrell

Effects of temperature on intracellular [Ca²⁺] in trout atrial myocytes
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 3641-3650. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

M. Wildman, S. R. Ott, and M. Burrows

GABA-like immunoreactivity in nonspiking interneurons of the locust metathoracic ganglion
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 3651-3659. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Julia Shand, Nathan S. Hart, Nicole Thomas, and Julian C. Partridge

Developmental changes in the cone visual pigments of black bream Acanthopagrus butcheri
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 3661-3667. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Robert Dudley and York Winter

Hovering flight mechanics of neotropical flower bats (Phyllostomidae: Glossophaginae) in normodense and hypodense gas mixtures
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 3669-3677. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Olivier Lepage, Olof Tottmar, and Svante Winberg

Elevated dietary intake of L-tryptophan counteracts the stress-induced elevation of plasma cortisol in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 3679-3687. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Scott A. Eckert

Swim speed and movement patterns of gravid leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) at St Croix, US Virgin Islands
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 3689-3697. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

R. M. Martínez-Álvarez, M. C. Hidalgo, A. Domezain, A. E. Morales, M. García-Gallego, and A. Sanz

Physiological changes of sturgeon Acipenser naccarii caused by increasing environmental salinity
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 3699-3706. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Malinda R. Boyd and Andrew D. McClellan

Changes in locomotor activity parameters with variations in cycle time in larval lamprey
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 3707-3716. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

J. Maxwell Donelan, Rodger Kram, and Arthur D. Kuo

Mechanical work for step-to-step transitions is a major determinant of the metabolic cost of human walking
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 3717-3727. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Fatima Atia, Irina Mountian, Jeannine Simaels, Etienne Waelkens, and Willy Van Driessche

Stimulatory effects on Na⁺ transport in renal epithelia induced by extracts of Nigella arvensis are caused by adenosine
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 3729-3737. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Naresh Kumar and Chinmoy S. Dey

Gliclazide increases insulin receptor tyrosine phosphorylation but not p38 phosphorylation in insulin-resistant skeletal muscle cells
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 3739-3746. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Kevin J. McGraw, Emiko A. Mackillop, James Dale, and Mark E. Hauber

Different colors reveal different information: how nutritional stress affects the expression of melanin- and structurally based ornamental plumage
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 3747-3755. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Nicole M. Elliott, Russel D. Andrews, and David R. Jones

Pharmacological blockade of the dive response: effects on heart rate and diving behaviour in the harbour seal (Phoca vitulina)
J Exp Biol 2002 205: 3757-3765. [Summary] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

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