> let alone to the author who paid the page
> charges and/or the 900 $ per color figure out of their grant).
What grant?
I just tried to make it short. We paid for the color figure in our Syst.
Biol. paper out of the institute* budget, and that figure was 900 US$. Never
seen a grant or even a grant application. The budget to which this budget
belongs has been slashed since... Institutes at US universities get less in
terms of fixed budget, and the researchers have to spend lots of time
applying for grants, so I figured explaining it this way would be more
familiar to more readers.
* Actually not an institute, but a CNRS team. No, wait, a team of an _Unité
Mixte de Recherche_ which belongs to the CNRS, the University of Paris 6,
the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, _and_ the Collège de France.
Anyway, the biggest part of the budget for the UMR comes from the CNRS, and
this part has been cut. Is your head spinning yet?