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Welcome to the Science Covers Gallery, a showcase of recent work by faculty in the LSA Natural Sciences departments and the School of Natural Resources and Environment. Be sure to stop by the Current Journals Room on the third floor of Shapiro Library to see these covers in full display.
J. David Allan and María M. Castillo. Stream Ecology: Structure and Function of Running Waters. Second Edition. Springer, 2007.
R. D. Deegan, P. Brunet and J. Eggers. Complexities of splashing. Nonlinearity, v 21, number 1, January 2008, pp C1-C11.
Michael S. Arnold, Gregory J. McGraw, Stephen R. Forrest and Richard R. Lunt. Direct vapor jet printing of three color segment organic light emitting devices for white light illumination. Applied Physics Letters, v 92, number 5, 4 February, 2008, pp 052201-1–053301-3.

© 2008 American Institute of Physics.
Thomas H. Johengen, Bopaiah A. Biddanda and James B. Cotner. Stimulation of Lake Michigan plankton metabolism by sediment resuspension and river runoff. Journal of Great Lakes Research, v 34, issue 2, June 2008, pp 213-227.
C. Kremen, A. Cameron, A. Moilanen, S.J. Phillips, C.D. Thomas, H. Beentje, J. Dransfield, B.L. Fisher, F. Glaw, T.C. Good, G.J. Harper, R.J. Hijmans, D.C. Lees, E. Louis Jr., R.A. Nussbaum, C.J. Raxworthy, A. Razafimpahanana, G.E. Schatz, M. Vences, D.R. Vietes, P.C. Wright and M.L. Zjhra. Aligning conservation priorities across taxa in Madagascar with high-resolution planning tools. Science, v 320, issue 5873, 11 April 2008, pp 222-226.

Reprinted with permission from AAAS. Cover photograph courtesy of Miroslav Honzak, © 2008
Nicholas A. Licata and Alexei V. Tkachenko. Kinetic limitations of cooperativity-based drug delivery systems. Physical Review Letters, v 100, number 15, 18 April 2008, pp 158102-1–158102-4.

© 2008 by the American Physical Society.
David Rueda and Nils G. Walter. Single molecule fluorescence control for nanotechnology. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, v 5, number 12, December 2005, pp 1990-2000.
Lizhu Wang, Dale M. Robertson and Paul J. Garrison. Linkages between nutrients and assemblages of macroinvertebrates and fish in wadeable streams: implication to nutrient criteria development. Environmental Management, v 39, number 2, February 2007, pp 194-212.
Curtis M. Zaleski, Tsu-Chen Weng, Catherine Dendrinou-Samara, Maria Alexiou, Paraskevi Kanakaraki, Wen-Yuan Hsieh, Jeff Kampf, James E. Penner-Hahn, Vincent L. Pecoraro and Dimitris P. Kessissoglou. Structural and physical characterization of tetranuclear [MnII3MnIV] and [MnII2MnIII2] valence-isomer manganese complexes. Inorganic Chemistry, v 47, number 14, July 21, 2008, pp 6127-6136.
J. David Allan, Robin Abell, Zeb Hogan, Carmen Revenga, Brad W. Taylor, Robin L. Welcomme, and Kirk Winemiller. Overfishing of inland waters. BioScience, v 55, issue 12, December 2005, pp 1041-1051.
Jeffrey C. Alt, Damon A. H. Teagle, Susumu Umino, Sumio Miyashita, Neil R. Banerjee, Douglas Wilson, the IODP Expeditions 309 and 312, and the ODP Leg 206 Scientific Party. Upper oceanic crust to Gabbro transition. Scientific Drilling, issue 4, March 2007, pp 4-10.
Rebecca L. Bernardos, Linda K. Barthel, Jason R. Meyers and Pamela A. Raymond. Late-stage neuronal progenitors in the retina are radial Muller glia that function as retinal stem cells. Journal of Neuroscience, v 27, issue 26, 27 June 2007, pp 7028-7040.

© 2007 by the Society for Neuroscience
Robyn J. Burnham and Nina L. Carranco. Miocene winged fruits of Loxopterygium (Anacardiaceae) from the Ecuadorian Andes. American Journal of Botany, v 91, issue 11, November 2004, pp 1767-1773.
Jennifer C. Ast, Ilse Cleenwerck, Katrien Engelbeen, Henryk Urbanczyk, Fabiano L. Thompson, Paul De Vos, and Paul V. Dunlap. Photobacterium kishitanii sp. Nov., a luminous marine bacterium symbiotic with deep-sea fishes. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, v 57, 2007, pp 2073-2078.
David L. Shuster, Todd A. Ehlers, Margaret E. Rusmoren, and Kenneth A. Farley. Rapid glacial erosion at 1.8 Ma revealed by 4He/3He thermochronometry. Science, v 310, issue 5754, 9 December 2005, pp 1668-1670.

Reprinted with permission from AAAS.
George F. Estabrook. Neither wild nor planted: essental role of giesta (Cytisus, Fabaceae) in traditional agriculture of Beira Alta, Portugal. Economic Botany, v 60, issue 4, winter 2006, pp 307-320.

© 2006 by the Society for Economic Botany.
Congcong He, Hui Song, Tomohiro Yorimitsu, Iryna Monastyrska, Wei-Lien Yen, Julie E. Legakis and Daniel J. Klionsky. Recruitment of Atg9 to the preautophagosomal structure by Atg11 is essential for selective autophagy in budding yeast. Journal of cell biology, v 175, issue 6, 18 December 2006, pp 925-935.
Michael Joyce, highlighting the work of Shawn McKee. Building global data sharing and collaboration networks: high-performance networking for the ATLAS experiment. Scientific Computing, v 23, issue 7, June 2006, pp 22-26.
Stephen R. Hensler and David J. Jude. Diel vertical migration of round goby larvae in the Great Lakes. Journal of Great Lakes Research, v 33, issue 2, 2007, pp 295-302.
Andre V. Bokchov and Barry M. OConnor. Systematics of the genus Sciurocheyla (Acari: Cheyletidae), parasites of tropical squirrels (Rodentiae: Sciuridae). Journal of Medical Entomology, v 41, issue 3, May 2004, pp 308-320.
Eran Pichersky, Joseph P. Noel and Natalia Dudareva. Biosynthesis of plant volatiles: nature’s diversity and ingenuity. Science, v 311, issue 5762, 10 February 2006, pp 808-811.

Reprinted with permission from AAAS.
Eran Pichersky. Plant scents: what we perceive as a fragrant perfume is actually a sophisticated tool used by plants to entice pollinators, discourage microbes and fend off predators. American Scientist, v 92, issue 6, November-December 2004, pp 514-521.

Illustration by Emma Skurnick.
Andrew L. Hipp, Anton A. Reznicek, Paul E. Rothrock and Jaime A. Webers. Phylogeny and classification of Carex section Ovales (Cyperaceae). International Journal of Plant Sciences, v 167, issue 5, September 2006, pp 1029-1049.
Nathan A. Magarvey, Zachary Q. Beck, Trimurtulu Golakoti, Yousong Ding, Udo Huber, Thomas K. Hemscheidt, Dafna Abelson, Richard E. Moore and David H. Sherman. Biosynthetic characterization and chemoenzymatic assembly of the Cryptophycins. Potent anticancer agents from Nostoc cyanobionts. ACS Chemical Biology, v 1, issue 12, 2006, pp 766-779.
John Vandermeer. Oscillating populations and biodiversity maintenance. BioScience, v 56, issue 12, December 2006, pp 967-975.