Table of contents
Volume 391 Number 6666 pp419-516
Opinion
The stewardship of conscience p419
Researchers contributing to the 'stockpile stewardship programme' should face the truth about its potential role in maintaining US reliance on the use of nuclear weapons.
doi:10.1038/34966
Time to sweeten a bitter pill p419
New Zealand needs to show renewed imagination if reforms of its science base are to succeed in the long term.
doi:10.1038/34968
News
Japan's research institutes face cuts in maintenance budgets p421
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/34970
Green light for US spallation source p421
Dave Kramer
doi:10.1038/34973
Brain-drain warning over UK lab facilities p422
doi:10.1038/34975
German chemist sues over fraud allegation p422
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/34978
FDA turns down moratorium demand on xenotransplants p423
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/34980
Earth today, Eros in a year's time, for asteroid spacecraft p423
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/34982
Genome unit falls foul of campus politics in India p424
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/34985
US 'split' over support for research project database p424
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/34987
Kennedy backed on use of tobacco money p424
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/34989
NASA 'needs better analytical equipment' p425
Tony Reichardt
doi:10.1038/34992
Germany's institute for scientific film could face final curtain p425
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/34995
News Analysis
New Zealand puts its science to profit p426
Six years ago the New Zealand government decided to make a number of radical changes in its approach to scientific funding. Supporters and critics remain divided on the outcome so far of its new strategy.
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/34997
'Purchasing' policy still stirs heated debate p426
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/35000
Government under fire from academics p427
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/35002
Commentary
Maintaining science culture in Japan p431
Two of Japan's government agencies are set to be merged in an attempt to raise the country's scientific standards. But unless a 'bottom-up' approach to science is adopted, the culture of basic research may be damaged.
doi:10.1038/35011
News and Views
Peeling the Chinese onion p433
Jared M. Diamond
doi:10.1038/35014
Remote sensing: Appreciate the gravity p434
Thomas A. Herring
doi:10.1038/35017
Molecular neurobiology: Making memories stick? p435
Cori Bargmann
doi:10.1038/35020
100 and 50 years ago p436
doi:10.1038/35023
DNA recognition: Reading the minor groove p436
Claude Hélène
doi:10.1038/35026
Genome sequencing: Genes blossom from a weed p438
Joseph R. Ecker
doi:10.1038/35030
Atomic physics: Positronic lithium and the many-body problem p439
J.-P. Connerade
doi:10.1038/35034
Apoptosis: Death cycle and Swiss army knives p441
Michael O. Hengartner
doi:10.1038/35036
Axon guidance: A Roundabout way of avoiding the midline p442
Barry Dickson
doi:10.1038/35039
Daedalus: Keep out the cold p443
David Jones
doi:10.1038/35042
Obituary: David N. Schramm (1945-97) p444
Edward W. Kolb and Michael S. Turner
doi:10.1038/35044
Art and Science
Abbott's absolutes p445
Berenice Abbott was fascinated by the challenge of capturing on film motion too rapid for the human eye. Her scientific photography has given a new meaning to the term'portraiture'.
Martin Kemp
doi:10.1038/35047
Scientific Correspondence
Oldest known ant fossils discovered p447
Donat Agosti, David Grimaldi and James M. Carpenter
doi:10.1038/35051
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Climate change and Australian wheat yield p447
David Godden, Robert Batterham and Ross Drynan
doi:10.1038/35054
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Climate change and Australian wheat yield p448
Roger Gifford, John Angus, Damian Barrett, John Passioura, Howard Rawson, Richard Richards, Maarten Stapper and Jeff Wood
doi:10.1038/35056
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Reply: Climate change and Australian wheat yield p449
Neville Nicholls
doi:10.1038/35058
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See also: News and Views by Hengartner
Injected cytochrome c induces apoptosis p449
Boris Zhivotovsky, Sten Orrenius, Odd T. Brustugun and Stein O. Døskeland
doi:10.1038/35060
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Tumour regression after endostatin therapy p450
William R. Black and R. Christopher Agner
doi:10.1038/35064
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Book Reviews
Mastering alien etiquette p451
Phil Morrison
doi:10.1038/35066
Destination space p451
doi:10.1038/35068
The captious crusader p452
Walter Gratzer
doi:10.1038/35071
Going backwards p453
Huw Price
doi:10.1038/35074
Faulty weather p454
Jean-Pierre Burg
doi:10.1038/35076
Article
Integrin-mediated short-term memory in Drosophila p455
Michael S. Grotewiel, Christine D. O. Beck, Kwok Hang Wu, Xin-Ran Zhu and Ronald L. Davis
doi:10.1038/35079
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See also: News and Views by Bargmann
Letters to Nature
Detection of intergalactic red-giant-branch stars in the Virgo cluster p461
Henry C. Ferguson, Nial R. Tanvir and Ted von Hippel
doi:10.1038/35087
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Phase matching using an isotropic nonlinear optical material p463
A. Fiore, V. Berger, E. Rosencher, P. Bravetti and J. Nagle
doi:10.1038/35091
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Broken symmetry and pseudogaps in ropes of carbon nanotubes p466
Paul Delaney, Hyoung Joon Choi, Jisoon Ihm, Steven G. Louie and Marvin L. Cohen
doi:10.1038/35099
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Recognition of the four Watson–Crick base pairs in the DNA minor groove by synthetic ligands p468
Sarah White, Jason W. Szewczyk, James M. Turner, Eldon E. Baird and Peter B. Dervan
doi:10.1038/35106
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A new perspective on the dynamical link between the stratosphere and troposphere p471
Dana E. Hartley, Jose T. Villarin, Robert X. Black and Christopher A. Davis
doi:10.1038/35112
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Simulated future sea-level rise due to glacier melt based on regionally and seasonally resolved temperature changes p474
J. M. Gregory and J. Oerlemans
doi:10.1038/35119
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Oceanic signals in observed motions of the Earth's pole of rotation p476
Rui M. Ponte, Detlef Stammer and John Marshall
doi:10.1038/35126
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High hunting costs make African wild dogs vulnerable to kleptoparasitism by hyaenas p479
Martyn L. Gorman, Michael G. Mills, Jacobus P. Raath and John R. Speakman
doi:10.1038/35131
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The representation of visual salience in monkey parietal cortex p481
Jacqueline P. Gottlieb, Makoto Kusunoki and Michael E. Goldberg
doi:10.1038/35135
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Analysis of 1.9 Mb of contiguous sequence from chromosome 4 of Arabidopsis thaliana p485
The EU Arabidopsis Genome Project, M. Bevan, I. Bancroft, E. Bent, K. Love, H. Goodman, C. Dean, R. Bergkamp, W. Dirkse, M. Van Staveren, W. Stiekema, L. Drost, P. Ridley, S.-A. Hudson, K. Patel, G. Murphy, P. Piffanelli, H. Wedler, E. Wedler, R. Wambutt, T. Weitzenegger, T. M. Pohl, N. Terryn, J. Gielen, R. Villarroel, R. De Clerck, M. Van Montagu, A. Lecharny, S. Auborg, I. Gy, M. Kreis, N. Lao, T. Kavanagh, S. Hempel, P. Kotter, K.-D. Entian, M. Rieger, M. Schaeffer, B. Funk, S. Mueller-Auer, M. Silvey, R. James, A. Montfort, A. Pons, P. Puigdomenech, A. Douka, E. Voukelatou, D. Milioni, P. Hatzopoulos, E. Piravandi, B. Obermaier, H. Hilbert, A. Düsterhöft, T. Moores, J. D. G. Jones, T. Eneva, K. Palme, V. Benes, S. Rechman, W. Ansorge, R. Cooke, C. Berger, M. Delseny, M. Voet, G. Volckaert, H.-W. Mewes, S. Klosterman, C. Schueller and N. Chalwatzis
doi:10.1038/35140
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Cardiac defects and altered ryanodine receptor function in mice lacking FKBP12 p489
Weinian Shou, Bahman Aghdasi, Dawna L. Armstrong, Qiuxia Guo, Shideng Bao, Min-Ji Charng, Lawrence M. Mathews, Michael D. Schneider, Susan L. Hamilton and Martin M. Matzuk
doi:10.1038/35146
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Regulation of the Hedgehog and Wingless signalling pathways by the F-box/WD40-repeat protein Slimb p493
Jin Jiang and Gary Struhl
doi:10.1038/35154
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Bcl-2 prolongs cell survival after Bax-induced release of cytochrome c p496
Thierry Rossé, Reynald Olivier, Laurent Monney, Monika Rager, Sébastien Conus, Isabelle Fellay, Burkhard Jansen and Christoph Borner
doi:10.1038/35160
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See also: News and Views by Hengartner
The role of transferrin-receptor variation in the host range of Trypanosoma brucei p499
W. Bitter, H. Gerrits, R. Kieft and P. Borst
doi:10.1038/35166
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Structure of the V
domain of a human 
T-cell antigen receptor p502
Hongmin Li, Marina I. Lebedeva, Andrea S. Llera, Barry A. Fields, Michael B. Brenner and Roy A. Mariuzza
doi:10.1038/35172
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Crystal structure of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae phosphatidylinositol- transfer protein p506
Bingdong Sha, Scott E. Phillips, Vytas A. Bankaitis and Ming Luo
doi:10.1038/35179
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Energy transduction in ATP synthase p510
Timothy Elston, Hongyun Wang and George Oster
doi:10.1038/35185
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New on the Market
Peptide and protein solutions p515
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