1 Botany Department, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, Rondebosch, Cape Town 7700, South Africa 2 Department of Biology and Herbarium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA 3 National Herbarium of the Netherlands (Leiden branch), PO Box 9514, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands 4 Current address: Research Group Phycology, Laboratory of Botany, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281 /...

The importance of rainfall to a cavity-nesting species A.N. Radford & M.A. Du Plessis The importance of rainfall to a cavity-nesting species ANDREW N. RADFORD 1 * & MORNÉ A. DU PLESSIS 2 1 Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK 2 Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, Department of Zoology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, Cap...

CATHERINE PITT*, ANNA VASSALL, YOT TEERAWATTANANON, ULLA K. GRIFFITHS, LORNA GUINNESS, DAMIAN WALKER, NICOLA FOSTER and KARA HANSON Department of Global Health & Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program, Ministry of Health, Bangkok, Thailand The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, USA Health Economics Unit,...

In most parts of the world, the phrase “town meeting” can mean just about any gathering where local citizens offer their opinions, hear from candidates, or endure the latest government “dogand-pony show.” As Susan Clark and Frank Bryan readily admit in All Those in Favor, their new and timely book on Vermont’s town meetings, references to the term in college textbooks “are as apt to be found in...

Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders in ICD-11 Dan J. Stein, Leonardo F. Fontenelle, Geoffrey M. Reed Department of Psychiatry, University of Cape Town, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa. Institute of Psychiatry, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. Instituto D’Or de Pesquisa e Ensino, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. 4 School of Psychologica...

When non-coding is nonneutral: the role of CHD1 gene polymorphism in sexing, in phylogenetics and as a correlate of fitness in birds LAURYN BENEDICT, RAURI C. K. BOWIE,* JEROME FUCHS & MATTHEW MACMANES Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA DST ⁄NRF Centre of Excellence at the Perc...

Carolyn Williamson and Ronald Swanstrom Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, Division of Medical Virology, and National Health Laboratory Services, University of Cape Town, 7925 Cape Town, South Africa; Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, 4013 Durban, South Africa; and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and UNC Center for AIDS Research, Universi...

During DNA replication, small fragments of DNA are formed. These have been observed experimentally and the mechanism of their formation modelled mathematically. Using the stochastic model of Cowan and Chiu (1992, 1994), we nd the probability distribution of the number of fragments. A new discrete distribution arises. The work has interest as an application of the recent theory on quasi-renewal ...

F. DELAVOIE,a D. MCINTOSH,b F. HENAO,c G. PERANZI,a P. CHAMPEIL,d D. STOKES,e AND J-J. LACAPÈREa, aINSERM U410, 75870 Paris, France bDepartment of Chemical Pathology, Universtiy of Cape Town Medical School, Cape Town, South Africa cBioquímica y Biología Molecular, Universidad de Extremadura, 06080 Badajoz, Spain dCNRS U2096, SBFM/DBJC, CEA-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France eSkirball Institut...

1National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London NW7 1AA, UK 2 Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town 7701, South Africa 3Department of Infectious Diseases, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK 4Department of Medicine, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, University of Cambridge, Box 157, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK 5Department of...