Table of contents
Volume 395 Number 6701 pp415-525
Opinion
Bytes, fast and free p415
In celebration of Nature's new website and its benefits for our personal subscribers.
doi:10.1038/26547
Bridging economics and ecology p415
Economists and ecologists are increasingly working together. Such cooperation is both desirable and necessary.
doi:10.1038/26549
News
Malaria research deal seeks to make up for industry's retreat p417
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/26551
Titanic tourists given a 'scientific' identity p417
Carl Levitin
doi:10.1038/26553
Energy department under fire on pace of reforms p418
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/26556
Agencies to mitigate space station delays p419
Tony Reichhardt and Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/26559
Japan looking forward to Christmas Island p419
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/26562
NIH launches discussion of in utero gene therapy... p420
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/26564
...and seeks to repair 'flaw' in review process p420
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/26566
Canadian research councils publish joint code on ethics p420
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/26568
Report to Congress 'ducks major issues' p421
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/26570
US stays in global fusion deal — for a year p421
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/26573
UK university fund 'seeking out the best' p422
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/26575
French government tightens its grip on research priorities p422
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/26578
Australian opposition pledges more funds p423
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/26580
NIH ponders role of 'public' advisers p423
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/26583
Briefings
Costing the Earth: when ecology meets economics p426
In recent years, ecologists and economists have learned the importance of working together. But the alliance has at times been rocky, particularly as there is no consensus on how cooperation is most effectively achieved.
Ehsan Masood and Laura Garwin
doi:10.1038/26587
When self-interest is key to a better environment p428
doi:10.1038/26591
Progress and pitfalls along the path towards a 'greener' method of calculating national productivity p428
doi:10.1038/26594
Audacious bid to value the planet whips up a storm p430
doi:10.1038/26597
Correspondence
Plight of US postdocs... in the US p431
John Moore
doi:10.1038/26600
Hope or hype for lexipafant? p431
Fikri M. Abu-Zidan
doi:10.1038/26602
Animals at the Salk p431
Thomas D. Pollard, (President)
doi:10.1038/26604
Commentary
How economists see the environment p433
Economists and ecologists misunderstand each other about the environment. Improving interdisciplinary communication should enable natural scientists to take economic analysis and prescriptions more seriously.
doi:10.1038/26606
News and Views
Kepler's conjecture confirmed p435
Neil J. A. Sloane
doi:10.1038/26609
Evolutionary biology: Origin of the spider's head p436
Michalis Averof
doi:10.1038/26613
Oceanography: Vents at higher frequency p437
Cindy Lee Van Dover
doi:10.1038/26617
Protein transport: The doors to organelles p439
Gottfried Schatz
doi:10.1038/26620
Active galaxies: Light jets near light speed p440
Tom Jones
doi:10.1038/26623
Immunology: Sinking surveillance's flagship p441
George Klein and Eva Klein
doi:10.1038/26626
Motor proteins: Sighting of the swinging lever arm of muscle p443
Maxine Clarke
doi:10.1038/26629
100 and 50 years ago p444
doi:10.1038/26632
Neurobiology: See and grasp p444
Nikos K. Logothetis
doi:10.1038/26634
Daedalus: Psychic misperceptions p445
David Jones
doi:10.1038/26637
Obituary: Thomas Kreis (1952-98) p446
Kai Simons and Ira Mellman
doi:10.1038/26639
Science and Image
Haeckel's hierarchies p447
The now-familiar concept of drawing lines of descent as trees seems harmless enough. But it led Ernst Haeckel (who bent the evidence to prove his Darwinian theories) into believing in the evolution of a Germanic super-race.
Martin Kemp
doi:10.1038/26642
Scientific Correspondence
Pollen analysis reveals murder season p449
R. Szibor, C. Schubert, R. Schöning, D. Krause and U. Wendt
doi:10.1038/26646
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Stingray jaws strut their stuff p450
Adam P. Summers, Thomas J. Koob and Elizabeth L. Brainerd
doi:10.1038/26649
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The ubiquitin pathway in Parkinson's disease p451
Elisabeth Leroy, Rebecca Boyer, Georg Auburger, Barbara Leube, Gudrun Ulm, Eva Mezey, Gyongyi Harta, Michael J. Brownstein, Sobhanadditya Jonnalagada, Tanya Chernova, Anindya Dehejia, Christian Lavedan, Thomas Gasser, Peter J. Steinbach, Keith D. Wilkinson and Mihael H. Polymeropoulos
doi:10.1038/26652
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Whale ankles and evolutionary relationships p452
J. G. M. Thewissen, S. I. Madar and S. T. Hussain
doi:10.1038/26656
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Book Reviews
To see a world in a grain of sand p453
Bernard Lovell reviews Destiny or Chance: Our Solar System and Its Place in the Cosmos by Stuart Ross Taylor
doi:10.1038/26659
Fat and fiction: time to weigh the benefits p454
John Prins reviews The Fats of Life by Caroline M. Pond
doi:10.1038/26662
New in paperback p454
doi:10.1038/26665
Complementing for fishes p454
Hans Fricke reviews The Diversity of Fishes by G.S. Helfman, B.B. Collette and D.E. Facey
doi:10.1038/26667
Impurities in the historical stream p455
James Vorosmarti reviews The Bends: Compressed Air in the History of Science, Diving, and Engineering by John L. Phillips
doi:10.1038/26670
In retrospect chosen by Roger Short p456
Roger Short reviews An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Robert Malthus and An Essay on the Principle of Population Edited with an Introduction by Antony Flew
doi:10.1038/26672
Articles
Electron–positron jets associated with the quasar 3C279 p457
J. F. C. Wardle, D. C. Homan, R. Ojha and D. H. Roberts
doi:10.1038/26675
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (274K)
See also: News and Views by Jones
The X-linked lymphoproliferative-disease gene product SAP regulates signals induced through the co-receptor SLAM p462
J. Sayos, C. Wu, M. Morra, N. Wang, X. Zhang, D. Allen, S. van Schaik, L. Notarangelo, R. Geha, M. G. Roncarolo, H. Oettgen, J. E. De Vries, G. Aversa and C. Terhorst
doi:10.1038/26683
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (686K)
See also: News and Views by Klein & Klein
The atomic structure of the bluetongue virus core p470
Jonathan M. Grimes, J. Nicholas Burroughs, Patrice Gouet, Jonathan M. Diprose, Robyn Malby, Stephan Ziéntara, Peter P. C. Mertens and David I. Stuart
doi:10.1038/26694
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (982K)
Letters to Nature
Dependence of magnetoresistivity on charge-carrier density in metallic ferromagnets and doped magnetic semiconductors p479
Pinaki Majumdar and Peter B. Littlewood
doi:10.1038/26703
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Electric-field-enhanced crystallization of amorphous silicon p481
Jin Jang, Jae Young Oh, Sung Ki Kim, Young Jin Choi, Soo Young Yoon and Chae Ok Kim
doi:10.1038/26711
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Molecular-scale mechanisms of crystal growth in barite p483
Carlos M. Pina, Udo Becker, Peter Risthaus, Dirk Bosbach and Andrew Putnis
doi:10.1038/26718
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Satellite mapping of enhanced BrO concentrations in the troposphere p486
U. Platt and T. Wagner
doi:10.1038/26723
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (418K) | Supplementary information
Hydrothermal activity along the southwest Indian ridge p490
C. R. German, E. T. Baker, C. Mevel, K. Tamaki and the FUJI Science Team
doi:10.1038/26730
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See also: News and Views by Van Dover
Electrical conductivity of silicate perovskite at lower-mantle conditions p493
Tomoo Katsura, Kiminori Sato and Eiji Ito
doi:10.1038/26736
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Productivity controls food-chain properties in microbial communities p495
Christina M. K. Kaunzinger and Peter J. Morin
doi:10.1038/26741
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Terrain influences the accurate judgement of distance p497
Michael J. Sinai, Teng Leng Ooi and Zijiang J. He
doi:10.1038/26747
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Shape selectivity in primate lateral intraparietal cortex p500
A. B. Sereno and J. H. R. Maunsell
doi:10.1038/26752
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See also: News and Views by Logothetis
Mechanism of calcium gating in small-conductance calcium-activated potassium channels p503
X.-M. Xia, B. Fakler, A. Rivard, G. Wayman, T. Johnson-Pais, J. E. Keen, T. Ishii, B. Hirschberg, C. T. Bond, S. Lutsenko, J. Maylie and J. P. Adelman
doi:10.1038/26758
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Replication checkpoint requires phosphorylation of the phosphatase Cdc25 by Cds1 or Chk1 p507
Yan Zeng, Kristi Chrispell Forbes, Zhiqi Wu, Sergio Moreno, Helen Piwnica-Worms and Tamar Enoch
doi:10.1038/26766
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (368K) | Supplementary information
Efficiency of signalling through cytokine receptors depends critically on receptor orientation p511
Rashid S. Syed, Scott W. Reid, Cuiwei Li, Janet C. Cheetham, Kenneth H. Aoki, Beishan Liu, Hangjun Zhan, Timothy D. Osslund, Arthur J. Chirino, Jiandong Zhang, Janet Finer-Moore, Steven Elliott, Karen Sitney, Bradley A. Katz, David J. Matthews, John J. Wendoloski, Joan Egrie and Robert M. Stroud
doi:10.1038/26773
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Tom40 forms the hydrophilic channel of the mitochondrial import pore for preproteins p516
Kerstin Hill, Kirstin Model, Michael T. Ryan, Klaus Dietmeier, Falk Martin, Richard Wagner and Nikolaus Pfanner
doi:10.1038/26780
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See also: News and Views by Schatz
Drosophila CBP represses the transcription factor TCF to antagonize Wingless signalling p521
Lucas Waltzer and Mariann Bienz
doi:10.1038/26785
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correction: Role of HIF-1
in hypoxia-mediated apoptosis, cell proliferation and tumour angiogenesis p525
Peter Carmeliet, Yuval Dor, Jean-Marc Herbert, Dai Fukumura, Koen Brusselmans, Mieke Dewerchin, Michal Neeman, FranÇoise Bono, Rinat Abramovitch, Patrick Maxwell, Cameron J. Koch, Peter Ratcliffe, Lieve Moons, Rakesh K. Jain, Désiré Collen and Eli Keshert
doi:10.1038/26791
Tests of quantum gravity from observations of 
-ray bursts p525
G. Amelino-Camelia, John Ellis, N. E. Mavromatos, D. V. Nanopoulos and Subir Sarkar
doi:10.1038/26793
erratum: Perinuclear localization of chromatin facilitates transcriptional silencing p525
Erik D. Andruliss, Aaron M. Neiman, David C. Zappulla and Rolf Sternglanz
doi:10.1038/26795
