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Elsevier Honored as "The Most Influential Publisher of the Last 100 Years in BioMedicine and the Life Sciences"

Elsevier has been awarded the “The Most Influential Publisher of the Last 100 Years in BioMedicine and the Life Sciences at the 2009   Special Library Association’s (SLA) Centennial conference in Washington DC.  Twenty journals published by Elsevier, many on behalf of renowned societies, were also selected as the SLA’s Top 100 Journals in Biology and Medicine including   Animal Behaviour, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, Cell, Current Biology,  Developmental Biology, Journal of Human Evolution, Journal of Molecular Biology, The American Journal of Human Genetics and Virology.
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Experimental Parasitology 

John Alderete
School of Molecular Biosciences
Washington State University, WA, USA

Hiroko Asahi
Dept. Parasitology, NIID
Tokyo, Japan 

Denise Doolan
The Queensland Institute of Medical Research
Herston QLD, Australia

Geoffrey Gobert
Queensland Institute of Medical Research
Herston, QLD, Australia

Edmundo Grisard
Departamento de Microbiologia, Imunologia e Parasitologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Florianópolis, Brazil

Marc-Jan Gubbels
Department of Biology, Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA, USA

Una Ryan
Division of Health Sciences, School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences Murdoch University
Murdoch, WA, USA

Fernando Villalta
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, Meharry Medical College
Nashville, TN, USA

Please join us in welcoming the following new Editorial Board members to our journal

Parasitology International 

Klaus Brehm
Institut für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie
Würzburg, Germany

Jose Franco Da Silveira
Departamento de Microbiologia, Imunologia e Parasitologia, Universidade Federal de São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil

Pedro Cravo
Centro de Malária e Outras Doenças Tropicais, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical
Lisboa, Portugal

Daniel Eichinger                  
Department of Medical Parasitology
New York, NY, USA

Hideo Hasegawa
Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University
Oita, Japan

Yoshitsugu Matsumoto
Department of Molecular Immunology, University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan 

Norbert Muller
Institute of Parasitology, University of Berne
Berne, Switzerland 

Alan Scott
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baltimore, MD, USA 

Takafumi Tsuboi
Malaria Research Unit, Ehime University
Ehime, Japan

Parasitology

Toxoplasma Centennial Issue - special issue
International Journal for Parasitology , Volume 39, Issue 8, Pages 859-946 (1 July 2009)

Eugregarine trophozoite detachment from the host epithelium via epimerite retraction: Fiction or fact?
International Journal for Parasitology, Volume 39, Issue 11, September 2009, Pages 1235-1242

Glycotope analysis in miracidia and primary sporocysts of Schistosoma mansoni: Differential expression during the miracidium-to-sporocyst transformation
International Journal for Parasitology, Article in Press, Corrected Proof

N-terminal processing of proteins exported by malaria parasites
Molecular & Biochemical Parasitology, Volume 160, Issue 2, Pages 107-115

Site-specific DNA double-strand breaks greatly increase stable transformation efficiency in Trypanosoma brucei
Molecular & Biochemical Parasitology, Volume 166, Issue 2, Pages 194-197

Proteomes and transcriptomes of the Apicomplexa - Where's the message?
International Journal for Parasitology, Volume 39, Issue 2, Pages 135-143

Fecundity of Sealworm (Pseudoterranova decipiens) Infecting Grey Seals (Halichoerus grypus) in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada: Lack of Density-dependent Effects
International Journal for Parasitology, Volume 27, Issue 11, Pages 1401-1409

Inflammatory pathways in malaria infection: TLRs share the stage with other components of innate immunity
Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, Volume 162, Issue 2, Pages 105-111

Soluble factors from Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes induce apoptosis in human brain vascular endothelial and neuroglia cells
Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, Volume 162, Issue 2, Pages 172-176

Entomology

Acta Tropica

Volume 112, Supplement 1, Pages S1-S102
  Health Research in Africa: Ethical and Practical Challenges Edited by Wen Kilama and Aceme Nyika

International Journal for Parasitology

Volume 39, Issue 8, Pages 859-946 (1 July 2009)
  Toxoplasma Centennial Issue
Edited by James W. Ajioka and Naomi S. Morrissette

Experimental Parasitology

Volume 119, Issue 4, Pages 437-542 (August 2008)
  Experimental Studies in Echinococcosis Edited by A. Hemphill and P. Kern

Journal of Insect Physiology 

Volume 53, Issue 8, Pages 751-868 (August 2007)
  VIII European Congress of Entomology - Physiology and Endocrinology
Edited by Klaus H. Hoffmann

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volume 38, Issue 12, Pages 1035-1174 (December 2008)
  Special Issue on the Silkworm Genome
Edited by Pierre Couble, Qing-you Xia and Kasuei Mita

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volume 55, Issue 5, Pages 395-498 (May 2009)
  Special Issue on Insect Clocks
Edited by David Denlinger and Jadwiga Giebultowicz

Biological Control

Volume 51, Issue 2, Pages 199-336 (November 2009)
  Trophic Ecology of the Coccinellidae
Edited by Jonathan G. Lundgren and Donald C. Weber

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology

Volume 101, Issue 3, Pages 161-246 (July 2009) 
  Special Section: SIP 2009, SIP 2009
Edited by Brian Federici and Elisabeth Herniou
Society for Invertebrate Pathology (SIP)

Upcoming Special Issues

• Acta Tropica:  Health Research Ethics for Investigators, Guest Editor Wen Kilama
• Journal of Invertebrate Pathology: Bee Diseases. Guest Editor Bryony Bonning