1. Comparative biochemical and structural characterizations of fungal polygalacturonases

   • Suryakant K. Niture

   Review Pages: 1 - 19

2. The role of gene polymorphisms in the pathogenesis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

   • Eva Slabá
   • Pavol Joppa
   • Ružena Tkáčová

   Review Pages: 20 - 33

3. Comparison of an oligo-chip based assay with PCR method to measure the prevalence of tick-borne pathogenic bacteria in central Slovakia

   • Elena Kocianová
   • Dušan Blaškovič
   • Imrich Barák

   Full Paper Pages: 34 - 37

4. First record of Chrysosporium europae, Ch. fluviale and Ch. minutisporosum in Slovakia

   • Roman Labuda
   • Lucia Naďová
   • Tomáš Vén

   Full Paper Pages: 38 - 39

5. Protomyces buerenianus (Protomycetaceae) — a new species for Slovakia

   • Kamila Bacigálová

   Full Paper Pages: 40 - 43

6. Leaf spot disease on Tilia cordata caused by the fungus Cercospora microsora

   • Slávka Bernadovičová
   • Helena Ivanová

   Full Paper Pages: 44 - 49

7. Parasitic microfungi of the Tatra Mountains. 3. Spermosporina gymnadeniae (Hyphomycetes): species new to Slovakia and new records from Poland

   • Agata Wołczańska
   • Wiesław Mułenko
   • Kamila Bacigálová

   Full Paper Pages: 50 - 52

8. Pollen morphology of some Paronychia species (Caryophyllaceae) from Turkey

   • Ayşe Kaplan

   Full Paper Pages: 53 - 60

9. Hieracium subgen. Pilosella: pollen stainability in sexual, apomictic and sterile plants

   • Olga Rotreklová

   Full Paper Pages: 61 - 66

10. Cytological and histological studies on female gametophyte of Leucojum aestivum (Amaryllidaceae)

    • Nuran Ekici
    • Feruzan Dane

    Full Paper Pages: 67 - 72

11. Holocene dynamics of the alpine timberline in the High Sudetes

    • Václav Treml
    • Vlasta Jankovská
    • Libor Petr

    Full Paper Pages: 73 - 80

12. The incidence of mistletoe (Viscum album ssp. abietis) on silver fir (Abies alba) in Croatia

    • Marilena Idžojtić
    • Renata Pernar
    • Danko Diminić

    Full Paper Pages: 81 - 85

13. The effect of cadmium on lipid and fatty acid biosynthesis in tomato leaves

    • Wided Ben Ammar
    • Issam Nouairi
    • Fatma Jemal

    Full Paper Pages: 86 - 93

14. Crossability relationships between Korean firs Abies koreana, A. nephrolepis and A. holophylla and some other representatives of the genus Abies

    • Andrej Kormuťák
    • Seok-Woo Lee
    • Yong-Pyo Hong

    Full Paper Pages: 94 - 99

15. Redescriptions of Arctoseius minutus (Halbert, 1915) and Arctoseius pulvisculus (Berlese, 1920) (Acari: Ascidae)

    • Dariusz J. Gwiazdowicz

    Full Paper Pages: 100 - 103

16. Description of Metagynella masani sp. n. from Kenya (Acari: Uropodina)

    • Jenő Kontschán

    Full Paper Pages: 104 - 106

17. New species and records of the subgenus Microchelonus Szépligeti (Braconidae: Cheloninae) from China

    • Hong-ying Zhang
    • Min Shi
    • Xue-xin Chen

    Full Paper Pages: 107 - 112

18. A new genus and species of Middle Jurassic rhagionids from China (Diptera, Rhagionidae)

    • Kuiyan Zhang
    • Ding Yang
    • Dong Ren

    Full Paper Pages: 113 - 116

19. Two new European species of Docosia (Diptera: Mycetophilidae)

    • Jan Ševčík
    • Petr Laštovka

    Full Paper Pages: 117 - 119

20. Three new European species of the genus Scleroprocta Edwards, 1938 (Diptera: Limoniidae)

    • Jaroslav Starý

    Full Paper Pages: 120 - 126

21. Molecular and morphological evidence of hybridization between newts Triturus vulgaris and T. montandoni (Caudata: Salamandridae) in Slovakia

    • Peter Mikulíček
    • Vít Zavadil

    Full Paper Pages: 127 - 131

22. Circulating cornea specific antibodies and keratoplasty

    • Helga Kostelná
    • Ján Rosocha
    • Marek Horňák

    Full Paper Pages: 132 - 137