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| | Science has a word for it 547
doi:10.1038/276547a0
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| | UK investigates virus insecticides 548
Pathogenic insect viruses may be a safe and effective alternative to chemical insecticides. The Unit of Invertebrate Virology at Oxford and the Centre for Overseas Pest Research in London are already conducting field trials with one class of virus: Baculoviruses. A. J. McClelland and Peter Collins report
A. J. McClelland & Peter Collins
doi:10.1038/276548a0
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| | US has doubts on anti-proliferation proposals 550
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/276550a0
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| | Libya bidding to join nuclear club, scientists warn 550
doi:10.1038/276550b0
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| | Czech chartists claim two died in nuclear accident 551
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/276551a0
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| | Canadian scientists confused by government moves on R & D funding 551
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/276551b0
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| | NASA plans a new Venus mission 552
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/276552a0
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| | News in Brief 553
doi:10.1038/276553a0
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| | Risk assessment is more than numbers, Swedish seminar concludes 554
Wendy Barnaby
doi:10.1038/276554a0
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| | Rothschild: an antidote to panic 555
ROTHSCHILD
doi:10.1038/276555a0
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| | Rothschild: an antidote to panic 555
ROBERT CAHN
doi:10.1038/276555b0
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| | Solar activity and influenza 556
ROY ING
doi:10.1038/276556a0
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| | Seveso: premature optimism 556
L. MANARA & S. GARATTINI
doi:10.1038/276556b0
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| | Reflections on the occasion of my birthday, by Mr Davy 557
John Albery & Peter Barratt
doi:10.1038/276557a0
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| | Intervening sequences in the mitochondrial genome 558
Giorgio Bernardi
doi:10.1038/276558a0
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| | Enzyme defects and immune dysfunction 559
Fred S. Rosen
doi:10.1038/276559a0
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| | Multipion production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions 560
J. M. Irvine
doi:10.1038/276560a0
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| | Sinks and sources of plant nutrients 560
Peter D. Moore
doi:10.1038/276560b0
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| | More on X-ray bursts 561
A. C. Fabian
doi:10.1038/276561a0
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| | Faint images revealed 561
F. G. Smith
doi:10.1038/276561b0
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| | Gene conversion in mitochondria 562
D. H. Williamson
doi:10.1038/276562a0
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| | The first division 562
Clive Lloyd
doi:10.1038/276562b0
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| | Can magnetic order and superconductivity coexist? 563
B. R. Coles
doi:10.1038/276563a0
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| | A star called M 564
S. Jocelyn Bell Burnell
doi:10.1038/276564a0
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| | A gene complex controlling segmentation in Drosophila
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E. B. Lewis
doi:10.1038/276565a0
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| | A new class of radio star 571
Martin Ryle, Graham Hine, John Shakeshaft & J. L. Caswell
doi:10.1038/276571a0
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| | K−Ar age of the late Pleistocene eruption of Toba, north Sumatra 574
D. Ninkovich, N. J. Shackleton, A. A. Abdel-Monem, J. D. Obradovich & G. Izett
doi:10.1038/276574a0
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| | Asymmetric gene conversion at inserted segments on yeast mitochondrial DNA 577
R. L. Strausberg, R. D. Vincent, P. S. Perlman & R. A. Butow
doi:10.1038/276577a0
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| | Mycoplasma capping on lymphocytes 583
Eric J. Stanbridge & Richard L. Weiss
doi:10.1038/276583a0
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| | HEAO Observations of X-ray bursts from MXB1730−335 587
J. A. HOFFMAN, W. A. WHEATON, F. A. PRIMINI, P. CAMPBELL, C. A. DOBSON, S. K. HOWE, E. Y. TSIANG, A. SCHEEPMAKER, W. H. G. LEWIN, J. L. MATTESON, D. E. GRUBER, L. E. PETERSON, J. H. SWANK, E. A. BOLDT, S. S. HOLT, R. E. ROTHSCHILD & P. SERLEMITSOS
doi:10.1038/276587a0
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| | NGC326—a radio galaxy with a precessing beam? 588
R. D. EKERS, R. FANTI, C. LARI & P. PARMA
doi:10.1038/276588a0
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| | Limits on cosmic radio bursts with microsecond time scales 590
J. D. O'SULLIVAN, R. D. EKERS & P. A. SHAVER
doi:10.1038/276590a0
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| | Photographic amplification of faint astronomical images 591
DAVID F. MALIN
doi:10.1038/276591a0
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| | Possible identification of the 45-µm ice signature in Orion 593
R. PAPOULAR, P. LÉNA, A. MARTEN, D. ROUAN & J. WIJNBERGEN
doi:10.1038/276593a0
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| | Atomic oxygen emission at 63 µm as a cooling mechanism in the thermosphere and ionosphere 594
K. U. GROSSMANN & D. OFFERMANN
doi:10.1038/276594a0
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| | Helium gas bubble lattices in face-centred-cubic metals 595
P. B. JOHNSON & D. J. MAZEY
doi:10.1038/276595a0
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| | Crown ether intercalations with phyllosilicates 596
E. RUIZ-HITZKY & B. CASAL
doi:10.1038/276596a0
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| | Measurement of thermal maturation of petroleum by proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy 598
R. ALEXANDER, R. I. KAGI & G. W. WOODHOUSE
doi:10.1038/276598a0
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| | Oxidation state of plutonium in the Irish Sea 599
D. M. NELSON & M. B. LOVETT
doi:10.1038/276599a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (318K)
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| | Catastrophic events in a surface mixed layer 601
T. M. DILLON & D. R. CALDWELL
doi:10.1038/276601a0
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230Th/234U age support of an interstadial sea level of -40 m at 30,000 yr BP 602
J. CHAPPELL & H. H. VEEH
doi:10.1038/276602a0
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| | Eastwards migration of the Tuscan anatectic magmatism due to anticlockwise rotation of the Apennines 604
L. CIVETTA, G. ORSI, P. SCANDONE & R. PECE
doi:10.1038/276604a0
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| | Do aerosol anomalies precede earthquakes? 606
HELMUT TRIBUTSCH
doi:10.1038/276606a0
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| | Evidence for domestication of the dog 12,000 years ago in the Natufian of Israel 608
SIMON J. M. DAVIS & FRANÇOIS R. VALLA
doi:10.1038/276608a0
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Tumorous head is a maternal-effect homoeotic mutant of Drosophila melanogaster
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N. BOURNIAS-VARDIABASIS & M. BOWNES
doi:10.1038/276611a0
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| | Genetic variability and population structure of Poecilia latipinna
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DAN E. SIMANEK
doi:10.1038/276612a0
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| | Arginine vasopressin maintains ethanol tolerance 614
PAULA L. HOFFMAN, RONALD F. RITZMANN, RODERICH WALTER & BORIS TABAKOFF
doi:10.1038/276614a0
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| | Increased spontaneous activity following substance P infusion into A10 dopaminergic area 616
LOUIS STINUS, ANN E. KELLEY & SUSAN D. IVERSEN
doi:10.1038/276616a0
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| | Denervation supersensitivity in the striatonigral GABA pathway 618
JOHN L. WADDINGTON & ALAN J. CROSS
doi:10.1038/276618a0
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| | Calcium-dependent exocytosis in bovine adrenal medullary cells with leaky plasma membranes 620
P. F. BAKER & D. E. KNIGHT
doi:10.1038/276620a0
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| | Depolarising effect of curare on embryonic rat muscles 622
LEA ZISKIND & M. J. DENNIS
doi:10.1038/276622a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (217K)
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| | Effect of tetraethylammonium on noradrenaline release from cat spleen treated with tetrodotoxin 623
S. M. KIRPEKAR & J. C. PRAT
doi:10.1038/276623a0
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| | Cell adhesion mediated by glycolipids 624
RICHARD T. C. HUANG
doi:10.1038/276624a0
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| | 5,6-Dihydroxyindole is a melanin precursor showing potent cytotoxicity 627
JOHN M. PAWELEK & AARON B. LERNER
doi:10.1038/276627a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (203K)
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| | Do radiation-induced thioguanine-resistant mutants of cultured mammalian cells arise by HGPRT gene mutation or X-chromosome rearrangement? 629
ROGER COX & W. K. MASSON
doi:10.1038/276629a0
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| | Competition of normal  chains and sickle haemoglobin chains for  chains as a post-translational control mechanism 631
JOSEPH R. SHAEFFER, ROBERT E. KINGSTON, MELISENDA J. MCDONALD & H. FRANKLIN BUNN
doi:10.1038/276631a0
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| | Transfer of the drug-resistance transposon Tn5 to Rhizobium
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J. E. BERINGER, J. L. BEYNON, A. V. BUCHANAN-WOLLASTON & A. W. B. JOHNSTON
doi:10.1038/276633a0
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| | High frequency transfer of nodulating ability between strains and species of Rhizobium
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A. W. B. JOHNSTON, J. L. BEYNON, A. V. BUCHANAN-WOLLASTON, S. M. SETCHELL, P. R. HIRSCH & J. E. BERINGER
doi:10.1038/276634a0
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| | Dynamics of protein hydration by quasi-elastic neutron scattering 636
JOHN RANDALL, H. D. MIDDENDORF, H. L. CRESPI & A. D. TAYLOR
doi:10.1038/276636a0
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| | Erratum 638
doi:10.1038/276638a0
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| | Christmas Books | |
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| | Aesthetics and scientific progress 639
Martin Pollock
doi:10.1038/276639a0
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| | Metaphor of the mechanical body 640
R. K. French
doi:10.1038/276640a0
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| | Tree appreciation 641
John N. Gibbs
doi:10.1038/276641a0
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| | Nature's traces 642
T. R. Halliday
doi:10.1038/276642a0
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| | Solving the problem of bird identity 643
Peter Conder
doi:10.1038/276643a0
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| | Contributions to conservation 644
John Andrews
doi:10.1038/276644a0
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| | [Christmas Books 'picture story'] 645
doi:10.1038/276645a0
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| | Conservation addicts 646
L. Harrison Matthews
doi:10.1038/276646a0
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| | Protean nature of conservation 647
H. N. Southern
doi:10.1038/276647a0
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| | For herpetological novices 648
J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson
doi:10.1038/276648a0
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| | Portraits of the Lepidoptera 649
Cyril A. Clarke
doi:10.1038/276649a0
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| | Natural selection in wildflower books 650
Peter D. Moore
doi:10.1038/276650a0
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| | Orchid guide 651
Peter Collins
doi:10.1038/276651a0
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| | Armchair geology 652
Peter J. Smith
doi:10.1038/276652a0
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| | For budding holographers 652
A. Thetford
doi:10.1038/276652b0
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| | Astronomy for the amateur 653
David W. Hughes
doi:10.1038/276653a0
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| | Portrait of five heroes 654
A. Rupert Hall
doi:10.1038/276654a0
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