1. Chemical Engineering of Enzymes: Altered Catalytic Activity, Predictable Selectivity and Exceptional Stability of the Semisynthetic Peroxidase Seleno-Subtilisin

   • Dietmar Häring
   • Peter Schreier

   REVIEW ARTICLES Pages: 307 - 312

2. Floods and Other Possible Adverse Environmental Effects of Meadowland Area Decline in Former West Germany

   • Rienk R. van der Ploeg
   • Wilfried Ehlers
   • Friedhelm Sieker

   REVIEW ARTICLES Pages: 313 - 319

3. Megafauna Can Control the Quality of Organic Matter in Marine Sediments

   • B. J. Smallwood
   • G. A. Wolff
   • A. Patience

   SHORT COMMUNICATIONS Pages: 320 - 324

4. How to eat a carrot? Convergence in the feeding behavior of subterranean rodents

   • Hynek Burda
   • Sabine Begall
   • Karel Průcha

   SHORT COMMUNICATIONS Pages: 325 - 327

5. Unique Asymmetric Protrusion of Nerve Cord in the Amphioxus, Branchiostoma belcheri

   • Masumi Nozaki
   • Kiyoshi Terakado
   • Kaoru Kubokawa

   SHORT COMMUNICATIONS Pages: 328 - 330

6. Osmotic Adaptation of the Endemic Fauna to the Ancient Freshwater Lake Baikal

   • I. Zerbst-Boroffka

   SHORT COMMUNICATIONS Pages: 330 - 333

7. Precision of a Mammalian Circadian Clock

   • Vijay Kumar Sharma
   • Maroli K. Chandrashekaran

   SHORT COMMUNICATIONS Pages: 333 - 335

8. Free Energy Reduction by Molecular Interface Crossing: Novel Mechanism for the Transport of Material Across the Interface of Nanoscale Droplets Induced by Competing Intermolecular Forces for Application in Perfluorocarbon Blood Substitutes

   • Andrei P. Sommer
   • Wolfgang Röhlke
   • Ralf P. Franke

   SHORT COMMUNICATIONS Pages: 335 - 339

9. Sex Ratios at Birth and Environmental Temperatures

   • Alexander Lerchl

   SHORT COMMUNICATIONS Pages: 340 - 342

10. Smaller Brains and Optic Lobes in Reproductive Workers of the Ant Harpegnathos

    • Wulfila Gronenberg
    • Jürgen Liebig

    SHORT COMMUNICATIONS Pages: 343 - 345

11. Effects of Visual and Leg Proprioceptor Inputs on Recovery of Eyestalk Posture Following Unilateral Statolith Removal in the Crayfish

    • T. Sakuraba
    • M. Takahata

    SHORT COMMUNICATIONS Pages: 346 - 349

12. Whale Meat from Protected Species Is Still Being Sold on Japanese Markets

    • Lutz Grohmann
    • Ingo Bokermann
    • Axel Brennicke

    SHORT COMMUNICATIONS Pages: 350 - 351

13. The Gravikinetic Response of Paramecium is Based on Orientation-Dependent Mechanotransduction

    • Manuel Gebauer
    • Daniela Watzke
    • Hans Machemer

    SHORT COMMUNICATIONS Pages: 352 - 356

14. Internationale Gutachter-Kommission hat deutsche Universitäten, DFG und MPG kritisch untersucht

    NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN AKTUELL Pages: 358 - 360

15. BOOK REVIEWS

    Pages: A357 - A357