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The British educational system, already punch-drunk from too much change, is due for another upheaval, but the government's new education bill is a poor and even dangerous recipe.
doi:10.1038/330299a0
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| | Figures for research 300
Britain's research community must think harder about its funds, and how it spends them.
doi:10.1038/330300a0
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| | Blood free from retrovirus contamination: next step 301
 US blood banks begin testing
Present tests too unspecific
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/330301a0
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| | Good week for Soviet visitors to Britain 301
doi:10.1038/330301b0
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| | Universities unhappy about education reform proposals 302
Simon Hadlington
doi:10.1038/330302a0
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| | Successful launch for Ariane 302
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/330302b0
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| | Arab—Israeli cooperation goes public 302
Nechemia Meyers
doi:10.1038/330302c0
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| | 'Industry should have final say in fate of research centres' 303
Simon Hadlington
doi:10.1038/330303a0
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| | Confusion over forecasts of Japanese volcanic eruption 303
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/330303b0
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| | Bavarian AIDS case to to to highest West German court 304
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/330304a0
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| | New mirror furnace takes first spin 304
Elizabeth Pennisi
doi:10.1038/330304b0
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| | Call for government re-think on radiation dose limits in Britain 304
Simon Hadlington
doi:10.1038/330304c0
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| | Satellite-linked tsunami warning to avoid Pacific disasters 305
David Lindley & David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/330305a0
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| | Spread of 'socialist jaundice' worsens in Uzbekistan 305
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/330305b0
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| | Encouragement in Japan for good forest management 306
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/330306a0
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| | Too much agribusiness on California campus? 306
Marcia Barinaga
doi:10.1038/330306b0
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| | Serron sacked 306
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/330306c0
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| | Bleaching of Caribbean corals a cause for concern 307
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/330307a0
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| | New AFRC secretary 307
Sarah Hargreaves
doi:10.1038/330307b0
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| | CNRS gold awards 307
P. C.
doi:10.1038/330307c0
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P. C.
doi:10.1038/330307d0
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| | AIDS report update 307
J. P.
doi:10.1038/330307e0
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| | Malaise of British science 308
N. C. SPURWAY
doi:10.1038/330308a0
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DAVID BLOOR & STEVEN SHAPIN
doi:10.1038/330308b0
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M. C. GOODALL
doi:10.1038/330308c0
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| | Tectonics in almost real time 309
Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry has been used with remarkable precision to map the movement of the coastal strip of California. Has the time now come when other regions should follow suit?
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/330309a0
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| | Few answers but many questions 310
Harriet Harris
doi:10.1038/330310a0
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| | Hamsters without jet-lag 311
A.T. Winfree
doi:10.1038/330311a0
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| | 100 years ago 312
doi:10.1038/330312a0
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| | Slow waves in young basalts 312
Peter Shearer
doi:10.1038/330312b0
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| | Helping RNA catalysis along 313
L. A. Grivell
doi:10.1038/330313a0
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| | A. N. Kolmogorov (1903−1987) 314
Ian Stewart
doi:10.1038/330314a0
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| | Creep in the mantle 315
S. J. Mackwell
doi:10.1038/330315a0
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| | Gut reactions of lysozyme 315
Andrew Leigh Brown
doi:10.1038/330315b0
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| | Optical flashes from a  -burster? 316
Giovanni F. Bignami
doi:10.1038/330316a0
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| | Sex among the parasites 317
Paul H. Harvey & Anne E. Keymer
doi:10.1038/330317a0
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J. N. Bahcall
doi:10.1038/330318a0
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| | Nuclear installations and childhood leukaemia 319
DAVID CROUCH
doi:10.1038/330319a0
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| | Why cystic fibrosis is on the increase 319
DORIAN J. PRITCHARD
doi:10.1038/330319b0
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| | Cross-talk between PKC and cyclic AMP pathways 319
ALEXANDER LEVITZKI
doi:10.1038/330319c0
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| | Second messengers or second agonists? 320
MICHAEL R. H.ANLEY & C. PETER DOWNES
doi:10.1038/330320a0
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K. W. JONES
doi:10.1038/330320b0
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| | Wild possibilities 321
M. S. Swaminathan reviews Gene Banks and the World's Food
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D. L. Plucknett, N. J. H. Smith, J. T. Williams & N. M. Anishetty
doi:10.1038/330321a0
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| | Summing it up 322
C. J. S. Clarke reviews Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics, 2nd Edn
doi:10.1038/330322a0
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| | Muddy waters 323
Eville Gorham reviews Acidification ofFreshwaters
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Malcolm Cresser & Anthony Edwards
doi:10.1038/330323a0
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| | Turning the tables for chemists 323
George P. Ford reviews Calculated Molecular Properties of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
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Ronald A. Hites & William J. Simonsick
doi:10.1038/330323b0
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doi:10.1038/330323c0
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| | Stars of biology 324
Dai Roberts reviews A Functional Biology of Echinoderms
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John Lawrence
doi:10.1038/330324a0
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| | Drilling for victory 324
Joe Cann reviews The Superdeep Well of the Kola Peninsula
Edited by
Ye. A. Kozlovsky
doi:10.1038/330324b0
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| | Fruits of northern friendship 325
Nordic cooperation is a natural response to the small size of the countries in the region and their natural affinities. It should not be allowed to impede partnerships that are fruitful for research.
doi:10.1038/330325a0
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| | Geography, acknowledgements and currencies 325
doi:10.1038/330325b0
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| | Looking to science for a solution 326
doi:10.1038/330326a0
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| | Packaging irresistible instruments 327
doi:10.1038/330327a0
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| | Doctorates on the double 327
doi:10.1038/330327b0
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| | Too much power to the people 328
doi:10.1038/330328a0
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| | Strength from competition 328
doi:10.1038/330328b0
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| | What's in a title? 328
doi:10.1038/330328c0
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| | Niels Bohr's long legacy 329
doi:10.1038/330329a0
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| | Did Erik the Red see green? 329
doi:10.1038/330329b0
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| | Nordic collaboration 329
doi:10.1038/330329c0
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| | Fears of an engineering gap 330
doi:10.1038/330330a0
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| | Not crying in their beer 330
doi:10.1038/330330b0
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| | Århus Science Park 330
doi:10.1038/330330c0
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| | Not yet back to basics 331
doi:10.1038/330331a0
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| | The Finn red line 331
doi:10.1038/330331b0
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| | Lig big science to the rescue 332
doi:10.1038/330332a0
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| | The first interferon 332
doi:10.1038/330332b0
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| | Small is beautiful 332
doi:10.1038/330332c0
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| | Two doctorates to a PhD? 333
doi:10.1038/330333a0
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| | Regionalization policies in action 333
doi:10.1038/330333b0
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| | Into trees but not out of the wood 334
doi:10.1038/330334a0
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| | Hobson's choice on nuclear power 334
doi:10.1038/330334b0
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| | Pluralism and priorities 335
doi:10.1038/330335a0
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| | Going back to basics by network 336
doi:10.1038/330336a0
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| | Campus partners in technology 336
doi:10.1038/330336b0
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| | In search of a fertile future 337
doi:10.1038/330337a0
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| | Moving from salmon to flatfish 337
doi:10.1038/330337b0
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| | Science parks 337
doi:10.1038/330337c0
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| | Acidification under attack 338
doi:10.1038/330338a0
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| | 'Green' ministry goes critical 338
doi:10.1038/330338b0
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| | Keeping a lead in R& D 339
doi:10.1038/330339a0
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| | Outsiders look in 339
doi:10.1038/330339b0
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| | Uppsala University 340
doi:10.1038/330340a0
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| | Survival after reform 340
doi:10.1038/330340b0
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| | Karolinska Institute 341
doi:10.1038/330341a0
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| | Spawned by unbroken peace 341
doi:10.1038/330341b0
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| | An ISCOM from SLU 341
doi:10.1038/330341c0
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| | Deep gas drilling divides the experts 342
doi:10.1038/330342a0
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| | In the cold without nuclear power? 342
doi:10.1038/330342b0
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| | After Chernobyl 342
doi:10.1038/330342c0
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| | No expense or effort spared 343
doi:10.1038/330343a0
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| | Not the Nobel 343
doi:10.1038/330343b0
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| | Takeovers and interfaces 344
doi:10.1038/330344a0
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| | Dependence of creep in olivine on homologous temperature and its implications for flow in the mantle 345
Robert S. Borch & Harry W. Green II
doi:10.1038/330345a0
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| | A galactic gravitational lens as the ultimate astronomical telescope 348
B. McBreen & L. Metcalfe
doi:10.1038/330348a0
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| | Infrared emission by organic grains in the coma of comet Halley 350
Christopher Chyba & Carl Sagan
doi:10.1038/330350a0
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| | Atmospheric radioactivity and variations in the solar neutrino flux 353
A. de la Zerda Lerner & K. O'Brien
doi:10.1038/330353a0
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| | Volcanic input to the atmosphere from Alba Patera on Mars 354
Lionel Wilson & Peter J. Mouginis-Mark
doi:10.1038/330354a0
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| | Thermally activated release of stored chemical energy in cryogenic media 358
John M. Carpenter
doi:10.1038/330358a0
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| | Synthesis and structure of (cis)-[1-ferrocenyl-2-(4-nitrophenyl)ethylene], an organotransition metal compound with a large second-order optical nonlinearity 360
Malcolm L. H. Green, Seth R. Marder, Mark E. Thompson, Judith A. Bandy, David Bloor, P. V. Kolinsky & R. J. Jones
doi:10.1038/330360a0
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| | North Pacific deep water formation during the latest glaciation 362
L. D. Keigwin
doi:10.1038/330362a0
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| | Global surface-temperature responses to major volcanic eruptions 365
C. B. Sear, P. M. Kelly, P. D. Jones & C. M. Goodess
doi:10.1038/330365a0
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| | Calibration of unsaturation patterns in long-chain ketone compositions for palaeotemperature assessment 367
F. G. Prahl & S. G. Wakeham
doi:10.1038/330367a0
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| | Long-term effects of organic and conventional farming on soil erosion 370
John P. Reganold, Lloyd F. Elliott & Yvonne L. Unger
doi:10.1038/330370a0
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| | A behavioural method for accelerating re-entrainment of rhythms to new light—dark cycles 372
N. Mrosovsky & Peggy A. Salmon
doi:10.1038/330372a0
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| | Hormonal regulation of K+-channel messenger RNA in rat myometrium during oestrus cycle and in pregnancy 373
Mary B. Boyle, Neil J. MacLusky, Frederick Naftolin & Leonard K. Kaczmarek
doi:10.1038/330373a0
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| | Adenohypophyseal degradation of thyrotropin releasing hormone regulated by thyroid hormones 375
Karl Bauer
doi:10.1038/330375a0
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| | Interferon-like sequence of ovine trophoblast protein secreted by embryonic trophectoderm 377
Kazuhiko Imakawa, Russell V. Anthony, Mohammad Kazemi, Keith R. Marotti, H. Gregory Polites & R. Michael Roberts
doi:10.1038/330377a0
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| | Expression cloning and cDNA sequencing of the Na+/glucose co-transporter 379
Matthias A. Hediger, Michael J. Coady, Tyson S. Ikeda & Ernest M. Wright
doi:10.1038/330379a0
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| | Improved immunogenicity of a peptide epitope after fusion to hepatitis B core protein 381
B. E. Clarke, S. E. Newton, A. R. Carroll, M. J. Francis, G. Appleyard, A. D. Syred, P. E. Highfield, D. J. Rowlands & F. Brown
doi:10.1038/330381a0
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| | Characterization of  -thalassaemia mutations using direct genomic sequencing of amplified single copy DNA 384
Corinne Wong, Carol E. Dowling, Randall K. Saiki, Russell G. Higuchi, Henry A. Erlich & Haig H. Kazazian Jr
doi:10.1038/330384a0
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| | A new fused transcript in Philadelphia chromosome positive acute lymphocytic leukaemia 386
E. Fainstein, C. Marcelle, A. Rosner, E. Canaani, R. P. Gale, O. Dreazen, S. D. Smith & C. M. Croce
doi:10.1038/330386a0
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| | Characterization and molecular cloning of a bovine lentivirus related to human immunodeficiency virus 388
Matthew A. Gonda, Michael J. Braun, Stephen G. Carter, Thomas A. Kost, Julian W. Bess Jr, Larry O. Arthur & Martin J. Van Der Maaten
doi:10.1038/330388a0
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| | Characterization of cellular proteins recognizing the HIV enhancer using a microscale DNA-affinity precipitation assay 391
B. Robert Franza Jr, Steven F. Josephs, Michael Z. Gilman, William Ryan & Bayard Clarkson
doi:10.1038/330391a0
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| | The Drosophila developmental gene snail encodes a protein with nucleic acid binding fingers 395
J. L. Boulay, C. Dennefeld & A. Alberga
doi:10.1038/330395a0
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| | Related repressor specificity of unrelated phages 398
Géza Dallmann, Péter Papp & László Orosz
doi:10.1038/330398a0
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| | Adaptive evolution in the stomach lysozymes of foregut fermenters 401
Caro-Beth Stewart, James W. Schilling & Allan C. Wilson
doi:10.1038/330401a0
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doi:10.1038/330404a0
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doi:10.1038/330405a0
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