Volume 266 Issue 5601, 31 March 1977

A fishy business

• C. E. Purdom
• A. Preston

USA: Start from the middle

• Colin Norman

SERI site selected

• Colin Norman

Britain

Sweden: Politics and power

• Wendy Barnaby

Pakistan: Bones of contention

• Azim Kidwai

In Brief

Pas de Concorde

• THOMAS H. JUKES

Physical science in Chile

• CLAUDIO GONZALEZ

Not rats, but mice

• R. A. DAVIS

The inconstant Sun

• David W. Hughes

H-2 and mating preferences

• J.C. Howard

Palmdale bulge changes shape

• Peter J. Smith

Landslides in sensitive soils

• I. J. Smalley

Relapses in malaria

• F. E. G. Cox

Dimeric water molecules

• Graham Richards

Telecommunications in the '80s

• John R. Forrest

A hundred years ago

Temperature and duration of the shadow of a recently-arrived lunar boulder

• S. A. Durrani
• K. A. R. Khazal
• A. Ali

Climate periods in tree, ice and tides

• Leona Marshall Libby
• Louis J. Pandolfi

Comparative neutron small-angle scattering study of small spherical RNA viruses

• B. Jacrot
• C. Chauvin
• J. Witz

Collagen–mineral axial relationship in calcified turkey leg tendon by X-ray and neutron diffraction

• Stephen W. White
• David J. S. Hulmes
• Peter A. Timmins

The possible galactic origin of γ-ray bursts

• R. K. MANCHANDA
• D. RAMSDEN

Possible detection of a radio event correlated with a γ-ray burst

• N. MANDOLESI
• G. MORIGI
• A. ABRAMI

Observational test for the existence of a rotating black hole in Cyg X-1

• R. F. STARK
• P. A. CONNORS

X rays from radio binaries

• KRISHNA M. V. APPARAO

Transient structure in the high-energy X-ray light curve of NP 0532

• S. G. RYCKMAN
• G. R. RICKER
• W. H. G. LEWIN

Diffusion time scales and accretion in the Sun

• GEORGES MICHAUD

Planetary tides during the Maunder Sunspot Minimum

• CHARLES M. SMYTHE
• JOHN A. EDDY

Order and disorder in weakly ionised plasmas

• T. L. DUTT
• P. K. DHAR

Metal accumulation rates in sediments from Mid-Indian Ocean Ridge and Marie Celeste Fracture Zone

• J. M. MCARTHUR
• H. ELDERFIELD

Estimation of gas-releasing efficiency of erupting magma from ²²⁶Ra–²²²Rn disequilibrium

• KAZUO SATO
• JUN SATO

Effects of inbreeding on cognitive performance

• JOSEPH BASHI

The significance of the nose for certain phenomena of visual perception

• N. E. WETHERICK

Sampling theory for alleles in a random environment

• JOHN H. GILLESPIE

Synthesis of compound chromosomes from a pericentric inversion in the onion fly Hylemya antiqua

• C. VAN HEEMERT

Regulation of dimorphism in the pathogenic fungus Histoplasma capsulatum

• BRUNO MARESCA
• GERALD MEDOFF
• JUDITH MEDOFF

The role of chemotaxis in the ecology of bacterial pathogens of mucosal surfaces

• BEN ALLWEISS
• JACK DOSTAL
• ROLF FRETER

Helical shape and wall synthesis in a bacterium

• M. J. TILBY

Neoplastic transformation of hamster embryo cells irradiated in utero and assayed in vitro

• CARMIA BOREK
• CYNTHIA PAIN
• HERBERT MASON

Local inhibition of centripetal particle transport where LETS protein patterns appear on 3T3 cells

• GUENTER ALBRECHT-BUEHLER
• LAN BO CHEN

Complement enhances antiviral antibody-dependent cell cytotoxicity

• BARRY T. ROUSE
• AMARJIT S. GREWAL
• LORNE A. BABIUK

Selective incorporation of H–2 antigenic determinants into Friend virus particles

• J. ERIC BUBBERS
• FRANK LILLY

Prevention of experimental allergic encephalitis in Lewis rats by rat and bovine spinal cord proteins

• CATHERINE F.C. MACPHERSON
• HOLLY ARMSTRONG

Gangliosides as surface antigens on cells isolated from the rat cerebellar cortex

• N. A. GREGSON
• MARIE KENNEDY
• S. LEIBOWITZ

Ciliary dyskinesia factors in cystic fibrosis and asthma

• GREGORY B. WILSON
• H. HUGH FUDENBERG

Blood respiratory properties of a viviparous amphibian

• DAN TOEWS
• DOUG MACINTYRE

One-to-one binding of a purified scorpion toxin to Na channels

• HARUMASA OKAMOTO
• KUNITARO TAKAHASHI
• NAOHIDE YAMASHITA

Does intracellular sodium modify membrane permeability to sodium ions?

• A. W. CUTHBERT
• W. K. SHUM

Endogenous C-type viral expression in primates

• JOHN R. STEPHENSON
• STUART A. AARONSON

Muscle histology and creatine kinase levels in the foetus in Duchenne muscular dystrophy

• ALAN E. H. EMERY

Degradation of deadenylated rabbit α-globin mRNA in Xenopus oocytes is associated with its translation

• G. HUEZ
• G. MARBAIX
• U. Z. LITTAUER

Backwarming due to circumstellar shells

• J. R. DONNISON
• I. P. WILLIAMS

Possible solar control of North Atlantic oceanic climate

• M. S. MUIR

Possible solar control of North Atlantic oceanic climate (reply)

• J. M. COLEBROOK

Oxygen isotope ratios in spruce cellulose

• DAVID A. PERRY

Isotope tree thermometers

• SAMUEL EPSTEIN
• CRAYTON YAPP

Isotope tree thermometers (reply)

• LEONA MARSHALL LIBBY
• LOUIS J. PANDOLFI

Interferon as an anti-viral

• Thomas C. Merigan

Arroyos in the American South-West

• A. T. Grove

Stereochemistry

• D. I. Davies

Aspects of hydrology

• M. J. Hamlin

Zeolite catalysis

• L. V. C. Rees

Unity of chemistry

• R. J. P. Williams

Insect viruses

• K. A. Harrap

Iron–sulphur proteins

• D. O. Hall

Recent scientific and technical books

W. H. Morton

• D. Adamson
• F. M. Dakin
• M. A. J. Williams

Hans-Lukas Teuber

A. T. Phillipson

• C. C. Balch