Volume 267 Issue 5608, 19 May 1977

When is a drought a drought?

• Michael H. Glantz
• Richard W. Katz

Going on the defensive

• John Manos

USA: Space in a corner

• Colin Norman

DNA bills drafted

• Colin Norman

After Moscow, the world

• Chris Sherwell

Britain: Waiting for summer

• Chris Sherwell

Switzerland: Guidelines emerge

• Rosmarie Waldner

W. Germany: Breeder hold-up

Power sans bombs

In Brief

Quackery triumph

• THOMAS H. JUKES

Technology and politics

• STEVE WRIGHT

‘The Selfish Gene’

• R. C. LEWONTIN

Scotland get its share

• P. J. HEALD

A plea for hyphens

• J. FABER

The structure of transcribing chromatin

• H. R. Matthews

More water for arid lands

• Robert M. May

Vaccination against virus-induced tumours

• Robin Weiss

Solid chemical physics

• Robert W. Cahn

Green light for the signal hypothesis?

• Pamela Hamlyn

Iranian natural history

• Peter D. Moore

A hundred years ago

New discontinuity in the Atlantic

• M. Whitfield

Molecular genetics at Hirschhorn

• Eleanor Lawrence

Super-luminal expansion in extragalactic radio sources

• R. D. Blandford
• C. F. McKee
• M. J. Rees

Structure of RNA and RNA binding site in tobacco mosaic virus from 4-Å map calculated from X-ray fibre diagrams

• Gerald Stubbs
• Stephen Warren
• Kenneth Holmes

Transmembrane channel formation in rhodopsin-containing bilayer membranes

• M. Montal
• A. Darszon
• H. W. Trissl

X-ray study of the lithium complex of NAD⁺

• W. Saenger
• B. S. Reddy
• G. Weimann

Evidence for a 581-d modulation in the pulse period of 3U0352 + 30

• N. E. WHITE
• K. O. MASON
• P. W. SANFORD

On the orientation of the pulsar space velocity vector relative to the spin axis

• R. K. KOCHHAR

How did barium titanate particulates stick together in the nebula?

• AKIMASA MASUDA
• TSUYOSHI TANAKA

Rates of reaction of HO₂ with HO and O studied by laser magnetic resonance

• J. P. BURROWS
• G. W. HARRIS
• B. A. THRUSH

A new classification of metal catalysts in skeletal reactions of hydrocarbons

• Z. PAÁL
• P. TÉTÉNYI

Surface wind and sea waves in a hurricane field

• A. K. MUKHERJEE
• T. R. SIVARAMAKRISHNAN

Imbricate thrust model of the Southern Uplands of Scotland

• W. S. MCKERROW
• J. K. LEGGETT
• M. H. EALES

Cretaceous and Tertiary dinoflagellates from Seymour Island, Antarctica

• STEPHEN A. HALL

Temporal characteristics of iconic memory

• VINCENT DI LOLLO

Cuckoo among Lake Malawi cichlid fish

• A. J. RIBBINK

Mode of action of insoluble monolayers on mosquito pupal respiration

• A. I. McMULLEN
• P. REITER
• M. C. PHILLIPS

Glutamine synthetase and control of nitrogen fixation in Rhizobium

• ROBERT A. LUDWIG
• ETHAN R. SIGNER

Nitroso group exchange as a way of activation of nitrosamines by bacteria

• M. MANDEL
• D. ICHINOTSUBO
• H. MOWER

Mast cell histamine and cell dehydration thirst

• DANIEL J. GOLDSTEIN
• JOSE A. HALPERIN

Regulation of acid proteases during growth, quiescence and starvation in normal and transformed cells

• THOMAS D. LOCKWOOD
• W. THOMAS SHIER

Effect of hormones on herpes simplex virus type-2-induced transformation

• PHALGUNI GUPTA
• FRED RAPP

Cytoskeletal regulation of concanavalin A capping in pulmonary alveolar macrophages

• DAVID A. WILLIAMS
• LAURENCE A. BOXER
• ROBERT L. BAEHNER

α-Fetoprotein induces suppressor T cells in vitro

• R. A. MURGITA
• E. A. GOIDL
• H. WIGZELL

Unmasking of thromboxane A₂ synthesis by ureteral obstruction in the rabbit kidney

• A. R. MORRISON
• K. NISHIKAWA
• P. NEEDLEMAN

Is yawning a cholinergic response?

• RUTH URBÁ-HOLMGREN
• ROSA MARIA GONZÁLEZ
• BJORN HOLMGREN

Myasthenia gravis serum reduces acetylcholine sensitivity in cultured rat myotubes

• R. ANWYL
• S. M. APPEL
• T. NARAHASHI

Human myasthenic sera reduce acetylcholine sensitivity of human muscle cells in tissue culture

• S. BEVAN
• R. W. KULLBERG
• S. F. HEINEMANN

Long term β-adrenergic blockade reduces tyrosine hydroxylase and dopamine β-hydroxylase activities in sympathetic ganglia

• A. E. G. RAINE
• I. W. CHUBB

β Endorphin inhibits ACh turnover in nuclei of rat brain

• F. MORONI
• D. L. CHENEY
• E. COSTA

Calcium-dependent presynaptic action of substance P at the frog neuromuscular junction

• A. STEINACKER

Postsynaptic receptors are not essential for dopaminergic feedback regulation

• G. DI CHIARA
• M. L. PORCEDDU
• G. L. GESSA

Hydroxyproline-containing protein adsorbed on to cellular elements of whole human blood

• ROBIN MILLER
• M. B. ENGEL
• H. R. CATCHPOLE

Effect of a single amino acid substitution on stability of conformation of a protein

• KATSUHIDE YUTANI
• KYOKO OGASAHARA
• AIZO MATSUSHIRO

Preponderance of synonymous changes as evidence for the neutral theory of molecular evolution

• MOTOO KIMURA

Inheritance of recombinant HLA-GLO haplotype suggesting the gene sequence

• NANCY L. REINSMOEN
• PETER S. FRIEND
• EDMOND J. YUNIS

Structure–function relationship of 5′ non-coding sequence of rabbit α- and β-globin mRNA

• FRANCISCO E. BARALLE

A new pathway for DNA repair in Escherichia coli

• LEONA SAMSON
• JOHN CAIRNS

Wide ranging plasmid bearing the Pseudomonas aeruginosa tryptophan synthase genes

• R. W. HEDGES
• ALAN E. JACOB
• IRVING P. CRAWFORD

Phonons and the elastic moduli of collagen and muscle

• R. HARLEY
• D. JAMES
• J. W. WHITE

Crystal structure of anhydrous cholesterol

• H. S. SHIEH
• L. G. HOARD
• C. E. NORDMAN

Direct evidence for an interaction of β-adrenergic blockers with the 5-HT receptor

• DEREK N. MIDDLEMISS
• LOUISE BLAKEBOROUGH
• STEPHEN R. LEATHER

Erratum

Erratum

Corrigendum

Corrigendum

Birth of a Universe

• John Barrow

Nerve, synapse and muscle

• P. F. Baker

Mammalian cell membranes

• R. C. Hughes

Predator-prey relationships

• John Krebs

Chemisorption on evaporated films

• D. D. Eley

Our living planet

• John Gribbin

Exploration geophysics

• R. F. King

Martian geology

• J. E. Guest

Molecular potential energy surfaces

• A. J. Stone