TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume 96, Issue 4 (April 2006)

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News and Commentaries

Evolutionary genetics: Seeing the light: the role of inherited developmental cascades in the origins of vertebrate lenses and their crystallins FREE

J Piatigorsky

Heredity 96: 275-277; advance online publication, March 1, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.hdy.6800793

Population genetics: XYZW as nature's language of love? FREE

I M Hastings

Heredity 96: 278-279; advance online publication, March 1, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.hdy.6800795

Evolutionary population genetics: Were the Vikings immune to HIV? FREE

O E Gaggiotti

Heredity 96: 280-281; advance online publication, February 1, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.hdy.6800806

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Review

Genetic variability and adaptive evolution in parthenogenetic root-knot nematodes FREE

P Castagnone-Sereno

Heredity 96: 282-289; advance online publication, January 11, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.hdy.6800794

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Original Articles

Testing for segregation distortion in genetic scoring data from backcross or doubled haploid populations FREE

J Nixon

Heredity 96: 290-297; advance online publication, March 1, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.hdy.6800797

Low Y chromosome variation in Saudi-Arabian hamadryas baboons (Papio hamadryas hamadryas) FREE

L J Lawson Handley, R L Hammond, G Emaresi, A Reber and N Perrin

Heredity 96: 298-303; advance online publication, March 1, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.hdy.6800803

Effects of canopy gaps on the genetic structure of Camellia japonica saplings in a Japanese old-growth evergreen forest FREE

S Ueno, N Tomaru, H Yoshimaru, T Manabe and S Yamamoto

Heredity 96: 304-310; advance online publication, March 1, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.hdy.6800804

Molecular population genetics of the malaria vector Anopheles darlingi in Central and South America FREE

L Mirabello and J E Conn

Heredity 96: 311-321; advance online publication, March 1, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.hdy.6800805

Genetic diversity and reproductive biology in ecotypes of the facultative apomict Hypericum perforatum L. FREE

G Barcaccia, F Arzenton, T F Sharbel, S Varotto, P Parrini and M Lucchin

Heredity 96: 322-334; advance online publication, March 1, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.hdy.6800808

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Book Reviews

From DNA to diversity: molecular genetics and the evolution of animal design (2nd ed.) FREE

K L Hammond Reviewed by and T T Whitfield

Heredity 96: 335; doi:10.1038/sj.hdy.6800800

Consanguinity, inbreeding, and genetic drift in Italy FREE

Reviewed by M H Schierup

Heredity 96: 336; doi:10.1038/sj.hdy.6800801

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