glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (g6pd) in humans is an x-chromosome-linked disorder and housekeeping enzyme, vital for the survival of every cell. it catalyses the oxidation of glucose-6-phosphate to 6-phospho gluconate in the first committed step of the pentose phosphate pathway, which provides cells with pentoses and reducing power in the form of nadph. nadph is required to protect the cell...

International Rice Research Institute, DAPO Box 7777, Metro Manila, 1301, Philippines. Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, Central Avenue, Chatham Maritime, Kent ME4 4TB, UK. Julius Kuehn Institute, Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Plant Protection in Horticulture and Forests, Toppheideweg 88, 48161 Muenster, Germany. Department of Zoology, Universi...

The eusirid genus Rhachotropis S.I. Smith, 1883 has a worldwide distribution and the largest bathymetric range known from any amphipod genus. A large, charismatic, colourful species was collected below 800 m at two sites 1000 km apart on the southern Kermadec Ridge and on the Chatham Rise in the south-western Pacific off eastern New Zealand. The new species, Rhachotropis oweni is described, inc...

Sea Mammal Research Unit, Gatty Marine Laboratory, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 8LB, UK IFAW, 411 Main Street, Yarmouth Port, MA02675, USA Acoustic Research Laboratory, TMSI, Electrical Engineering Department, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260 4 Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute, Terpsichoris 21, 16671 VOULIAGMENI, GREECE Natural Re...

Joel Peters is Associate Professor of Government and International Affairs in the School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech, USA. From 1992-96 he as an Associate Research Fellow in the Midde East Programme at the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House), London, where he directed a research project on the Multilateral Arab-Israeli Peace Talks. He is the author o...

William M. Land is with the Neurocognition and Action Research Group, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany. Gershon Tenenbaum is with the College of Education, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. Paul Ward is with the Centre for Sports Science & Human Performance, University of Greenwich, Chatham Maritime, UK. Christian Marquardt is with Science & Motion GmbH, Munich, Germany. E...