Table of contents
Volume 390 Number 6657 pp205-318
Opinion
High noon at Kyoto p205
An agreement between the United States and developing countries, brokered by Japan, could ensure a successful outcome for the forthcoming conference of the United Nations climate convention at Kyoto.
doi:10.1038/36651
News
NATO science programme feels the heat over funds and goals p207
Declan Butler and David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/36653
US carbon emissions forecast to rocket p207
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/36656
NASA space station chief resigns p208
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/36658
Funding delay looms for EU Framework programme p208
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/36661
Wellcome Trust to coordinate drive against malaria p209
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/36663
French agency agrees to publication of asbestos report p209
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/36665
Greenhouse emission cuts 'in China's own interests' p209
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/36667
Bavarian universities set to gain autonomy p210
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/36670
Lower budget deficit offers hope of research bonus in Canada p210
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/36673
NIH to abandon young investigator grants p211
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/36675
Mixed experience with R29 'baby grants' p211
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/36678
Australia told that universities need greater competition p212
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/36680
Synchrotron delays 'put at risk' Europe's leading role p212
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/36683
Korea holds firm to biotech expansion p213
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/36685
Troubled reactor wins five-year reprieve p213
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/36688
Briefings
Kyoto meeting will seek to build bridge over troubled water p215
Stormy negotiations are expected during the third meeting of parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which opens in Kyoto in ten days time. But optimists hope that significant agreement can still be reached.
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/36693
Equity is the key criterion for developing nations p216
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/36697
Waning influence provokes green groups' frustration p218
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/36701
Joint actions may hold the vital formula p219
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/36704
What to look for at Kyoto p219
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/36706
Obstacles to an agreement p220
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/36708
Correspondence
Support for genetic diversity project p221
William J. Schull, L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Walter Bodmer, (Former President, Human Genome Organisation) and Jean Dausset
doi:10.1038/36711
Patients and patents p221
Mildred K. Cho and Jon F. Merz
doi:10.1038/36713
Health effects of tropical smoke p222
Forrest M. Mims, III
doi:10.1038/36715
Progress on bioethics blocked in Japan p223
Jiro Nudeshima
doi:10.1038/36717
Commentary
Climate-change research after Kyoto p225
A scientific consensus that humans are influencing the climatewill be behind any agreements on greenhouse-gas reductions nextmonth. But how can climate research have an optimal influenceon climate policy in the future?
doi:10.1038/36719
News and Views
The great debate on CO2 emissions p227
Kilaparti Ramakrishna
doi:10.1038/36723
Developmental biology: The worm keeps turning p228
Bruce Bowerman
doi:10.1038/36725
Colossal magnetoresistance: Not just a load of bolometers p229
Neil Mathur
doi:10.1038/36728
Ecology: Feeding patterns on forest floors p231
Peter D. Moore
doi:10.1038/36731
Archaeology: Magnetic trace of a giant henge p232
Elizabeth Aveling
doi:10.1038/36734
Fluid dynamics: Diffusion in a different direction p233
David A. Weitz
doi:10.1038/36737
Virology: Illicit viral DNA p235
Robin A. Weiss and Paul Kellam
doi:10.1038/36740
Solar physics: Galileo through the Sun's streamers p235
Karen Southwell
doi:10.1038/36742
Evolutionary biology: More mutations in males p236
Kate Lessells
doi:10.1038/36745
Genome sequencing: Panspermia, spores and the Bacillus subtilisgenome p237
James A. Hoch and Richard Losick
doi:10.1038/36747
100 and 50 years ago p237
doi:10.1038/36750
Daedalus: Congealed fat p238
David Jones
doi:10.1038/36752
Art and Science
Bill's bands p239
Swiss sculptor Max Bill, working in the middle of this century, created forms aiming to visualize intuitively the mathematics of his day, with their structure determined by a sense of the way space could be 'energized'.
Martin Kemp
doi:10.1038/36754
Scientific Correspondence
A prion-linked psychiatric disorder p241
Helena B. Samaia, Jair de Jesus Mari, Homero P. Vallada, Ricardo P. Moura, Andrew J. G. Simpson and Ricardo R. Brentania
doi:10.1038/36757
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Trapping speciation p241
Silvia Garagna, Maurizio Zuccotti, Carlo Alberto Redi and Ernesto Capanna
doi:10.1038/36760
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Sex ratio unaffected by parental age gap p242
Fred Arnold, Shea Rutstein, W. H. James and Charles E. Boklage
doi:10.1038/36762
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Active uptake of bicarbonate by diatoms p243
Philippe D. Tortell, John R. Reinfelder and Francois M. M. Morel
doi:10.1038/36765
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An atom-focusing mirror p244
Bodil Holst and William Allison
doi:10.1038/36769
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Book Reviews
When the Cold War reached boiling point p245
David Holloway reviews The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis edited by Ernest R. May and Philip D. Zelikow and 'One Hell of a Gamble': Khrushchev, Castro, Kennedy, 1958-1964 by Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali
doi:10.1038/36772
Ape people p246
Marc D. Hauser reviews Next of Kin: What Chimpanzees Have Taught Me About Who We Are by Roger Fouts and Stephen Tukel Mills
doi:10.1038/36776
Is this the origin of art? p246
doi:10.1038/36778
New in paperback p247
doi:10.1038/36781
A fan writes p248
Oliver Morton reviews NASA/TREK: Popular Science and Sex in America by Constance Penley
doi:10.1038/36783
Article
The complete genome sequence of the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis p249
F. Kunst, N. Ogasawara, I. Moszer, A. M. Albertini, G. Alloni, V. Azevedo, M. G. Bertero, P. Bessières, A. Bolotin, S. Borchert, R. Borriss, L. Boursier, A. Brans, M. Braun, S. C. Brignell, S. Bron, S. Brouillet, C. V. Bruschi, B. Caldwell, V. Capuano, N. M. Carter, S.-K. Choi, J.-J. Codani, I. F. Connerton, N. J. Cummings, R. A. Daniel, F. Denizot, K. M. Devine, A. Düsterhöft, S. D. Ehrlich, P. T. Emmerson, K. D. Entian, J. Errington, C. Fabret, E. Ferrari, D. Foulger, C. Fritz, M. Fujita, Y. Fujita, S. Fuma, A. Galizzi, N. Galleron, S.-Y. Ghim, P. Glaser, A. Goffeau, E. J. Golightly, G. Grandi, G. Guiseppi, B. J. Guy, K. Haga, J. Haiech, C. R. Harwood, A. Hénaut, H. Hilbert, S. Holsappel, S. Hosono, M.-F. Hullo, M. Itaya, L. Jones, B. Joris, D. Karamata, Y. Kasahara, M. Klaerr-Blanchard, C. Klein, Y. Kobayashi, P. Koetter, G. Koningstein, S. Krogh, M. Kumano, K. Kurita, A. Lapidus, S. Lardinois, J. Lauber, V. Lazarevic, S.-M. Lee, A. Levine, H. Liu, S. Masuda, C. Mauël, C. Médigue, N. Medina, R. P. Mellado, M. Mizuno, D. Moestl, S. Nakai, M. Noback, D. Noone, M. O'Reilly, K. Ogawa, A. Ogiwara, B. Oudega, S.-H. Park, V. Parro, T. M. Pohl, D. Portetelle, S. Porwollik, A. M. Prescott, E. Presecan, P. Pujic, B. Purnelle, G. Rapoport, M. Rey, S. Reynolds, M. Rieger, C. Rivolta, E. Rocha, B. Roche, M. Rose, Y. Sadaie, T. Sato, E. Scanlan, S. Schleich, R. Schroeter, F. Scoffone, J. Sekiguchi, A. Sekowska, S. J. Seror, P. Serror, B.-S. Shin, B. Soldo, A. Sorokin, E. Tacconi, T. Takagi, H. Takahashi, K. Takemaru, M. Takeuchi, A. Tamakoshi, T. Tanaka, P. Terpstra, A. Tognoni, V. Tosato, S. Uchiyama, M. Vandenbol, F. Vannier, A. Vassarotti, A. Viari, R. Wambutt, E. Wedler, H. Wedler, T. Weitzenegger, P. Winters, A. Wipat, H. Yamamoto, K. Yamane, K. Yasumoto, K. Yata, K. Yoshida, H.-F. Yoshikawa, E. Zumstein, H. Yoshikawa and A. Danchin
doi:10.1038/36786
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Letters to Nature
The optically dark side of galaxy formation p257
Bruno Guiderdoni, Franois R. Bouchet, Jean-Loup Puget, Guilaine Lagache and Eric Hivon
doi:10.1038/36792
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Phase transitions in individual sub-micrometre superconductors p259
A. K. Geim, I. V. Grigorieva, S. V. Dubonos, J. G. S. Lok, J. C. Maan, A. E. Filippov and F. M. Peeters
doi:10.1038/36797
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Giant fluctuations in a free diffusion process p262
Alberto Vailati and Marzio Giglio
doi:10.1038/36803
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A manganese oxyiodide cathode for rechargeable lithium batteries p265
Jaekook Kim and Arumugam Manthiram
doi:10.1038/36812
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Implications of recent CO2 emission-limitation proposals for stabilization of atmospheric concentrations p267
T. M. L. Wigley
doi:10.1038/36818
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Influence of socioeconomic inertia and uncertainty on optimal CO2-emission abatement p270
M. Ha-Duong, M. J. Grubb and J.-C. Hourcade
doi:10.1038/36825
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The uniform and low 3He/4He ratios of HIMU basalts as evidence for their origin as recycled materials p273
Takeshi Hanyu and Ichiro Kaneoka
doi:10.1038/36835
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The seed-storing corvid Clark's nutcracker learns geometric relationships among landmarks p276
Alan C. Kamil and Juli E. Jones
doi:10.1038/36840
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The capacity of visual working memory for features and conjunctions p279
Steven J. Luck and Edward K. Vogel
doi:10.1038/36846
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A role for the Ras signalling pathway in synaptic transmission and long-term memory p281
Riccardo Brambilla, Nerina Gnesutta, Liliana Minichiello, Gail White, Alistair J. Roylance, Caroline E. Herron, Mark Ramsey, David P. Wolfer, Vincenzo Cestari, Clelia Rossi-Arnaud, Seth G. N. Grant, Paul F. Chapman, Hans-Peter Lipp, Emmapaola Sturani and Rdiger Klein
doi:10.1038/36849
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Short-range control of cell differentiation in the Arabidopsis root meristem p287
Claudia van den Berg, Viola Willemsen, Giel Hendriks, Peter Weisbeek and Ben Scheres
doi:10.1038/36856
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Mice lacking factor VII develop normally but suffer fatal perinatal bleeding p290
Elliot D. Rosen, Joyce C. Y. Chan, Esohe Idusogie, Frédéric Clotman, George Vlasuk, Thomas Luther, Louise R. Jalbert, Sybille Albrecht, Liang Zhong, Ann Lissens, Luc Schoonjans, Lieve Moons, Désiré Collen, Francis J. Castellino and Peter Carmeliet
doi:10.1038/36862
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Binary specification of the embryonic lineage in Caenorhabditis elegans p294
Titus Kaletta, Heinke Schnabel and Ralf Schnabel
doi:10.1038/36869
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A non-retroviral RNA virus persists in DNA form p298
Paul Klenerman, Hans Hengartner and Rolf M. Zinkernagel
doi:10.1038/36876
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Regulation of CFTR chloride channels by syntaxin and Munc18 isoforms p302
Anjaparavanda P. Naren, Deborah J. Nelson, Weiwen Xie, Biljana Jovov, Jonathan Pevsner, Mark K. Bennett, Dale J. Benos, Michael W. Quick and Kevin L. Kirk
doi:10.1038/36882
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Caenorhabditis elegans CED-9 protein is a bifunctional cell-death inhibitor p305
Ding Xue and H. Robert Horvitz
doi:10.1038/36889
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CRM1 is responsible for intracellular transport mediated by the nuclear export signal p308
Makoto Fukuda, Shiro Asano, Takahiro Nakamura, Makoto Adachi, Minoru Yoshida, Mitsuhiro Yanagida and Eisuke Nishida
doi:10.1038/36894
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DNA binding and transcriptional repression by DAX-1 blocks steroidogenesis p311
Emmanuel Zazopoulos, Enzo Lalli, Douglas M. Stocco and Paolo Sassone-Corsi
doi:10.1038/36899
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Correction: The optical counterpart of the isolated neutron star RX J185635-3754 p315
Frederick M. Walter and Lynn D. Matthews
doi:10.1038/36907
Correction: Imaging of radiocarbon-labelled tracer molecules in neural tissue using accelerator mass spectrometry p315
R. E. M. Hedges, Z. X. Jiang, C. Bronk Ramsey, A. Cowey, J. D. B. Roberts and P. Somogyi
doi:10.1038/36909
Correction: Structure of the inhibitory receptor for human natural killer cells resembles haematopoietic receptors p315
Qing R. Fan, Lidia Mosyak, Christine C. Winter, Nicolai Wagtmann, Eric O. Long and Don C. Wiley
doi:10.1038/36911
Correction: Crystal structures of fragment D from human fibrinogen and its crosslinked counterpart from fibrin p315
Glen Spraggon, Stephen J. Everse and Russell F. Doolittle
doi:10.1038/36913
New on the Market
No deficiency in immunology tools p316
Compiled by Brendan Horton from information provided by the manufacturers.
doi:10.1038/36915
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