Vol. 50 (2)
June/Junio 2002
CONTENTS / CONTENIDOS
Invited Articles / Artículos Invitados
José María Gutiérrez
Comprendiendo los venenos de serpientes: 50 años de investigaciones en América Latina
Matthias Wolff
Concepts and approaches for marine ecosystem research with reference to the tropics
Sergio I. Salazar-Vallejo
Huracanes y biodiversidad costera tropical
Marco V. Gutiérrez
The scientific development of the physiology of plants in the American tropics
Leslie J. Burlingame
Evolution of the Organization for Tropical Studies
Teresita Aguilar
50 años de la Revista de Biología Tropical: Contribución al desarrollo de la Geo-Paleontología
Laurence A. Mound
Thysanoptera biodiversity in the Neotropics
William G. Eberhard
The function of female resistance behavior: Intromission by male coercion vs. female cooperation in sepsid flies (Diptera: Sepsidae)
Biomedicine / Biomedicina
Vanessa Ramírez & Patricia Cuenca
Daño del ADN en trabajadoras bananeras expuestas a plaguicidas en Limón, Costa Rica
Francisco Hernández-Chavarría, Libertad Alzamora-González & Libia Herrero-Uribe
Non-cytopathic hepatitis A virus induces surface alterations in LLC-MK2 cells revealed by thin sections, negative staining, and scanning electron microscopy
Botany / Botánica
K. Kathiresan & N. Rajendran
Growth of a mangrove (Rhizophora apiculata) seedlings as influenced by GA3, light and salinity
Pia Parolin
Life history and environment of Cecropia latiloba in Amazonian floodplains
Ecology and Conservation/ Ecología y Conservación
Ana Sittenfeld, Lorena Uribe-Lorío, Marielos Mora, Vanesa Nielsen, Glen Arrieta & Daniel H. Janzen
Does a polyphagous caterpillar have the same gut microbiota when feeding on different species of food plants?
Alejandro G. Farji-Brener, Oscar Valverde, Leonardo Paolini, María De Los Angeles La Torre, Estela Quintero, Elisa Bonaccorso, Luisa Arnedo & Richard Villalobos
Función del acumen en las hojas y su distribución vertical en un bosque lluvioso tropical de Costa Rica
Gilbert Barrantes & Ana Pereira
Seed dissemination by frugivorous birds from forest fragments to adjacent pastures on the western slope of Volcán Barva, Costa Rica
Luigi Brighigna, Alessio Papini, Stefano Mosti, Andrea Cornia, Paola Bocchini & Guido Galletti
The use of tropical bromeliads (Tillandsia spp.) for monitoring atmospheric pollution in the town of Florence, Italy
Luis Rosero-Bixby, Tirso Maldonado-Ulloa & Roger Bonilla-Carrión
Bosque y población en la Península de Osa, Costa Rica
Invertebrates / Invertebrados
Francisco Kelmo & Rita Vargas
Anthoathecatae and Leptothecatae hydroids from Costa Rica (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa)
Marcos T. Díaz, Luz E. Hernández & Abul K. Bashirullah
Experimental life cycle of Philophthalmus gralli (Trematoda: Philophthalmidae) in Venezuela
María Del Carmen Espinosa-Pérez & Michel E. Hendrickx
Distribution and ecological notes on Dynoides (Isopoda: Sphaeromatidae) in the Mexican Pacific
Exequiel R. González & Les Watling
A new species of Hyalella from the Andes in Perú (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyalellidae)
Exequiel R. González & Les Watling
Redescription of the freshwater amphipod Hyalella faxoni from Costa Rica (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyalellidae)
Carlos Roberto Hasbún & Andrew J. Lawrence
An annotated description of shallow water holothurians (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) from Cayos Cochinos, Honduras
Isidro Chacón & Kenji Nishida
A new species of Cyllopsis (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) from Costa Rica
Luci Boa Nova Coelho & Elidiomar Ribeiro Da-Silva
A new species of Scaris from southeastern Brazil, with notes on S. nessimiani and S. bahiensis (Homoptera: Cicadellidae)
Vertebrates / Vertebrados
O.O. Fawole
Morphometry and diet of Mormyrus rume in the Lekki lagoon, Nigeria
Reimpressions / Reimpresiones
First Editorial
Luis E. Solano S.
Estudio sobre agentes etiológicos de vaginitis en la mujer grávida costarricense
Ettore De Girolami
Superficial biopsy of the cervix: new technique
Archie Carr
Notes on the zoogeography of the Atlantic sea turtles of the genus Lepidochelys
Alvaro Wille
The phylogeny and relationships between the insect orders
Jay M. Savage
An extraordinary new toad (Bufo) from Costa Rica
Pedro Morera & Rodolfo Céspedes
Angiostrongylus costaricensis n. sp. (Nematoda: Metastrongyloidea), a new lungworm occurring in man in Costa Rica
Ettore De Girolami
Reseña histórica de la fundación de la Revista de Biología Tropical
Edgardo Moreno
In search of a bacterial species definition
Julián Monge-Nájera & Xianguang Hou
Disparity, decimation and the Cambrian “explosion”: comparison of early Cambrian and Present faunal communities with emphasis on velvet worms (Onychophora)
