Vol. 56 (1)

March / Marzo 2008

CONTENTS / CONTENIDOS

Genetics / Genética

Fernando Morales, Patricia Cuenca, Gerardo del Valle, Melissa Vásquez, Roberto Brian, Mauricio Sittenfeld, Keith Johnson, Xi Lin & Tetsuo Ashizawa
Clinical and molecular diagnosis of a Costa Rican family with autosomal recessive myotonia congenita (Becker disease) carrying a new mutation in the CLCN1 gene

Jeanne M. Robertson, Karen R. Lips & Edward J. Heist
Fine scale gene flow and individual movements among subpopulations of Centrolene prosoblepon (Anura: Centrolenidae)

Aquatic Botany / Botánica Acuática

José L. Moreno-Ruiz, Margarito Tapia-García, Ma. Del Carmen González-Macias & Ma. Guadalupe Figueroa-Torres
Phytoplankton from Tehuantepec River, Oaxaca, Mexico and some biogeographical relationships [Spanish]

Maickel Armenteros, Jason Paul Williams, Boris Creagh & Norberto Capetillo
Spatial and temporal variations of meiofaunal communities from the western sector of the Gulf of Batabanó, Cuba: II. Seagrass systems

Aquatic Invertebrates / Invertebrados Acuáticos

Darlenys Hernández-Muñoz, Pedro M. Alcolado & Miguel Hernández-González
Effects of a submarine discharge of urban waste on octocoral (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) communites in Cuba [Spanish]

Alejandra Rumi, Diego E. Gutiérrez Gregoric, Verónica Núñez & Gustavo A. Darrigran
Latin American Malacology. Freshwater Mollusks from Argentina [Spanish]

Jeffrey K. McCrary, Henry Madsen, Liza González, Inti Luna & Lorenzo J. López
Comparison of gastropod mollusc (Apogastropoda: Hydrobiidae) habitats in two crater lakes in Nicaragua

Miguel Avendaño, Marcela Cantillánez, Marcel Le Pennec & Gérard Thouzeau
Reproductive and larval cycle of the scallop Argopecten purpuratus (Ostreoida: Pectinidae), during El Niño-La Niña events and normal weather conditions in Antofagasta, Chile

Ichthyology / Ictiología

J.A. Rojo-Vázquez, C. Quiñonez-Velázquez, H.A. Echavarria-Heras, G. Lucano-Ramírez, E. Godínez-Domínguez, S. Ruiz-Ramírez, V.H. Galván-Piña1 & O. Sosa-Nishizaki
The fish species composition and variation of catch from the small-scale gillnet fishery before, during and after the 1997-1998 ENSO event, central Mexican Pacific

G. Lucano-Ramírez, S. Ruiz-Ramírez, J.A. Rojo-Vázquez & G. González-Sansón
Reproduction of the fish Gymnothorax equatorialis (Pisces: Muraenidae) in Jalisco and Colima, Mexico [Spanish]

Jonathan Herrera-Vásquez, William Bussing & Federico Villalobos
Panbiogeographical analysis of Costa Rican freshwater fishes

Elaine Espino Barr, Manuel Gallardo Cabello, Esther Guadalupe Cabral Solís, Arturo Garcia Boa & Marcos Puente Gómez
Growth of the Pacific jack Caranx caninus (Pisces: Carangidae) from the coast of Colima, México

Isabel Andrade & Germán Pequeño
Mesobathic chondrichthyes of the Juan Fernández seamounts: are they different from those of the central Chilean continental slope?

Terrestrial Botany / Botánica Terrestre

Mosti Stefano, Alessio Papini & Luigi Brighigna
A new quantitative classification of ecological types in the bromeliad genus Tillandsia (Bromeliaceae) based on trichomes

Verónica Souza da Mota Gomes, Maria Célia Rodrigues Correia, Heloisa Alves de Lima & Maria Alice S. Alves
Potential role of frugivorous birds (Passeriformes) on seed dispersal of six plant species a restinga habitat, southeastern Brazil

José Alfredo Hernández Ugalde, Jorge Mora Urpí & Oscar Rocha Nuñez
Genetic diversity and kin relationships among wild and cultivated populations of the pejibaye palm (Bactris gasipaes, Palmae) using microsatellite markers [Spanish]

Ramón Cuevas Guzmán, Edmundo García Moya, J. Antonio Vázquez García & Nora M. Núñez López
Population structure and environmental relationships of the tropical tree Nectandra rudis (Lauraceae), a rare species in western Mexico [Spanish]

Oscar M. Chaves & Gerardo Avalos
Do seasonal changes in light availability influence the inverse leafing phenology of the neotropical dry forest understory shrub Bonellia nervosa (Theophrastaceae)?

Patricia Guadarrama, Silvia Castillo-Argüero, José A. Ramos-Zapata, Sara L. Camargo-Ricalde & Javier Álvarez-Sánchez
Propagules of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in a secondary dry forest of Oaxaca, Mexico

Ivón M. Ramírez Morillo, Francisco Chi May, Germán Carnevali Fernández-Concha & Filogonio May Pat
Reproductive biology of Hechtia schottii, a dioecious Bromeliaceae, in Mexico

Terrestrial Invertebrates / Invertebrados Terrestres

Víctor Álvarez, Jorge Loaiza, Roberto Bonilla & Mariano Barrios
In vitro control of ticks (Boophilus microplus; Acari: Ixodidae) with plant extracts [Spanish]

Julieta Ramos-Elorduy, Ivonne Landero-Torres, Joaquín Murguía-González & José M. Pino M.
Anthropoentomophagic biodiversity of Zongolica region, Veracruz, Mexico [Spanish]

Antonio Mijail Pérez, Marlon Sotelo, Irma Arana & Adolfo López
Diversity of terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the Pacific region of Nicaragua, and their habitat preferences [Spanish]

Rosemary I. Egonmwan
Effects of dietary calcium on growth and oviposition of the African land snail Limicolaria flammea (Pulmonata: Achatinidae)

Liliana Alicia Fernández
The annual life history of a population of the aquatic Coleopteran Derallus angustus (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)

Terrestrial Vertebrates / Vertebrados Terrestres

Aldeima T. Pérez T.
Growth of the Orinoco Caiman (Crocodylus intermedius, Crocodylia: Crocodylidae) under two captivity conditions [Spanish]

Inty T. Arcos, Francisco Jiménez, Célia A. Harvey & Fernando Casanoves
Richness and abundance of birds in riparian forest belts of varied breadths at the Sesesmiles river microwatershed, Copan, Honduras. [Spanish]

Bulmara Zárate-Ovando, Eduardo Palacios & Héctor Reyes-Bonilla
Community structure and association of aquatic birds with spatial heterogeneity in the Bahía Magdalena-Almejas lake complex, Baja California Sur, Mexico [Spanish]

Eric Mellink & Mónica E. Riojas-López
Waterbirds (other than Laridae) nesting in the middle section of Laguna Cuyutlán, Colima, México

Forum / Foro

Libia Herrero Uribe
From mechanism to complexity in biology [Spanish]

Book Reviews / Reseñas de Libros

Julián Monge-Nájera
Angulo, A.O., T. S. Olivares & G.T. Weigert. 2006. Estados inmaduros de lepidópteros nóctuidos de importancia económica, agrícola y forestal en Chile (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

Luis Diego Gómez Pignataro
Columbus, J.T., Friar, E.A., Porter, J.M., Prince, L.M., & M.G.Simpson (eds.). 2006. Monocots. Comparative Biology and Evolution

Julián Monge-Nájera
Sara Soledad García (ed.). 2005. Educación Ecológica: reflexión y praxis en torno a la sequía en Chihuahua