Table of contents
Volume 401 Number 6752 pp411-512
In this issue (30 September 1999)
Opinion
Wanted: a new order in protein nomenclature p411
Biologists and others trying to make sense of the scientific literature have a hard enough time keeping up with new discoveries. Inadequate attention to nomenclature is only making the task worse.
doi:10.1038/46615
Better, cheaper, faster, more vulnerable? p411
NASA's policy of favouring smaller missions deserves more political support.
doi:10.1038/46617
News
Europe strengthens its hand in bioscience website talks ... p413
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/46619
... and India protects its past online p413
K.S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/46622
Lasker awards honour three pioneers in ion channels p414
Natasha Loder
doi:10.1038/46625
Coordinate international space science, meeting told p414
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/46628
Mars bosses 'rejected trajectory revision'... p415
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/46630
... and Europe considers insuring its X-ray satellite p415
Natasha Loder and Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/46633
Monbusho pleads for watered-down agency bill for universities p416
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/46636
Taiwan's high-tech industries shaken not stirred by quake p416
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/46638
Scientists wary of weapons research agency p417
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/46641
Allègre defends synchrotron plans p417
Heather McCabe
doi:10.1038/46645
cDNA sequence databank will safeguard research access p418
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/46648
Fur flies over rare-species panel p418
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/46650
Spanish university chiefs blast recruitment system p419
Xavier Bosch
doi:10.1038/46653
Geographer sues critics of his rock-dating methods p419
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/46655
Correspondence
Online archive must serve authors as well as publishers p423
Stevan Harnad
doi:10.1038/46659
A view from Kansas on that evolution debate p423
Scott C. Todd
doi:10.1038/46661
Wellcome for education on science in society p423
Laurence Smaje
doi:10.1038/46663
Confidentiality is vital to bioweapons control p424
Johannes Rath, Bernhard Jank and Otto Doblhoff-Dier
doi:10.1038/46665
Devil in the detail p424
Nicholas J. Cox
doi:10.1038/46667
Turning the tide p424
Tim Robinson
doi:10.1038/46669
Medicine and biology are more than biomedicine p424
Alan N. Schechter
doi:10.1038/46672
Book Reviews
Germany's forgotten war p425
Nazi Germany also fought against environmental and industrial carcinogens.
Ute Deichmann reviews The Nazi War on Cancer by Robert N. Proctor
doi:10.1038/46674
Feynmania p426
Graham Farmelo reviews The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard Feynman
doi:10.1038/46677
Astronomy's biggest project p427
G. Jacoby reviews Measuring the Universe: The Cosmological Distance Ladder by Stephen Webb
doi:10.1038/46680
Solar spectacle p427
doi:10.1038/46682
Synchronizing situations p428
Dietmar Plenz reviews Fast Oscillations in Cortical Circuits by Roger D. Traub, John G. R. Jefferys and Miles A. Whittington
doi:10.1038/46685
Diversity in the world of bugs p428
Alison F. Hunter reviews Ecology of Insects: Concepts and Applications by Martin R. Speight, Mark D. Hunter and Allan D. Watt
doi:10.1038/46687
Millennium Essay
How many billions to go? p429
The peaking of the population growth rate deserves wider recognition.
Vaclav Smil
doi:10.1038/46689
News and Views
Myosin steps backwards p431
All myosin motors move in the same direction — or so it was thought. The discovery of one form that acts in reverse sheds new light on the mechanics of these molecular motors.
Manfred Schliwa
doi:10.1038/46692
Earth science: Taking the core temperature p432
Mark S. T. Bukowinski
doi:10.1038/46696
Apoptosis: Cutting red-cell production p433
Stuart H. Orkin and Mitchell J. Weiss
doi:10.1038/46699
100 and 50 years ago p435
doi:10.1038/46702
Homogeneous catalysis: Controlled green oxidation p436
Craig L. Hill
doi:10.1038/46704
Physiology: The haemoglobin enzyme p437
Kiyohiro Imai
doi:10.1038/46707
Planetary systems: Ageing dust fades away p439
Sergio Fajardo-Acosta
doi:10.1038/46710
Cell biology: A cell for all reasons p440
William F. Loomis and Robert H. Insall
doi:10.1038/46713
Daedalus: An actively cold wind p441
David Jones
doi:10.1038/46716
Obituary: Ernst Ludwig Wynder 1922–99 p442
Robert Weinberg
doi:10.1038/46718
Brief Communications
Evolution of an antifreeze glycoprotein p443
A blood protein that keeps Antarctic fish from freezing arose from a digestive enzyme.
Chi-Hing C. Cheng and Liangbiao Chen
doi:10.1038/46721
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Animal behaviour: Aquatic sex pheromone from a male tree frog p444
Paul A. Wabnitz, John H. Bowie, Michael J. Tyler, John C. Wallace and Ben P. Smith
doi:10.1038/46724
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (117K)
Protein structure: An enzymatic globin from a marine worm p445
Lukasz Lebioda, Michael W. LaCount, Erli Zhang, Yung Pin Chen, Kaiping Han, Margaret M. Whitton, David E. Lincoln and Sarah A. Woodin
doi:10.1038/46728
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Lake ecosystems: Rapid evolution revealed by dormant eggs p446
Nelson G. Hairston, Jr, Winfried Lampert, Carla E. Cáceres, Cami L. Holtmeier, Lawrence J. Weider, Ursula Gaedke, Janet M. Fischer, Jennifer A. Fox and David M. Post
doi:10.1038/46731
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Correction: Food contamination by PCBs and dioxins p446
A. Bernard, C. Hermans, F. Broeckaert, G. De Poorter , A. De Cock and G. Houins
doi:10.1038/46735
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (184K)
Hypothesis
The origins of insect metamorphosis p447
James W. Truman and Lynn M. Riddiford
doi:10.1038/46737
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (574K)
Letters to Nature
The unusual afterglow of the 
-ray burst of 26 March 1998 as evidence
for a supernova connection p453
J. S. Bloom, S. R. Kulkarni, S. G. Djorgovski, A. C. Eichelberger, P. Côté, J. P. Blakeslee, S. C. Odewahn, F. A. Harrison, D. A. Frail, A. V. Filippenko, D. C. Leonard, A. G. Riess, H. Spinrad, D. Stern, A. Bunker, A. Dey, B. Grossan, S. Perlmutter, R. A. Knop, I. M. Hook and M. Feroci
doi:10.1038/46744
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (220K)
Disappearance of stellar debris disks around main-sequence stars after 400 million years p456
H. J. Habing, C. Dominik, M. Jourdain de Muizon, M. F. Kessler, R. J. Laureijs, K. Leech, L. Metcalfe, A. Salama, R. Siebenmorgen and N. Trams
doi:10.1038/46749
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (216K)
See also: News and Views by Fajardo-Acosta
Rapid changes in the mechanism of ocean convection during the last glacial period p458
Trond M. Dokken and Eystein Jansen
doi:10.1038/46753
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (1,251K) | Supplementary information
The melting curve of iron at the pressures of the Earth's core from ab initio calculations p462
D. Alf, M. J. Gillan and G. D. Price
doi:10.1038/46758
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (127K)
See also: News and Views by Bukowinski
Stable isotope evidence for the food web consequences of species invasions in lakes p464
M. Jake Vander Zanden, John M. Casselman and Joseph B. Rasmussen
doi:10.1038/46762
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (168K)
Stable isotopes reveal strong marine and El Niño effects on island food webs p467
Paul Stapp, Gary A. Polis and Francisco Sánchez Piñero
doi:10.1038/46769
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (132K)
Built-in polarizers form part of a compass organ in spiders p470
M. Dacke, D.-E. Nilsson, E. J. Warrant, A. D. Blest, M. F. Land and D. C. O'Carroll
doi:10.1038/46773
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (269K) | Supplementary information
Dorsoventral lineage restriction in wing imaginal discs requires Notch p473
Craig A. Micchelli and Seth S. Blair
doi:10.1038/46779
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (577K)
Fringe-dependent separation of dorsal and ventral cells in the Drosophila wing p476
Cordelia Rauskolb, Trudy Correia and Kenneth D. Irvine
doi:10.1038/46786
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (496K)
Silencing of TGF-
signalling by the pseudoreceptor BAMBI p480
Darya Onichtchouk, Ye-Guang Chen, Roland Dosch, Volker Gawantka, Hajo Delius, Joan Massague´ and Christof Niehrs
doi:10.1038/46794
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (527K) | Supplementary information
Tom22 is a multifunctional organizer of the mitochondrial preprotein translocase p485
Sandra van Wilpe, Michael T. Ryan, Kerstin Hill, Ammy C. Maarse, Chris Meisinger, Jan Brix, Peter J. T. Dekker, Martin Moczko, Richard Wagner, Michiel Meijer, Bernard Guiard, Angelika Hönlinger and Nikolaus Pfanner
doi:10.1038/46802
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (353K)
Negative regulation of erythropoiesis by caspase-mediated cleavage of GATA-1 p489
Ruggero De Maria, Ann Zeuner, Adriana Eramo, Cristina Domenichelli, Desiree Bonci, Francesco Grignani, Srinivasa M. Srinivasula, Emad S. Alnemri, Ugo Testa and Cesare Peschle
doi:10.1038/46809
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (308K)
See also: News and Views by Orkin & Weiss
Cytochrome P450 2C is an EDHF synthase in coronary arteries p493
Beate Fisslthaler, Rüdiger Popp, Ladislau Kiss, Michael Potente, David R. Harder, Ingrid Fleming and Rudi Busse
doi:10.1038/46816
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (219K)
Ascaris haemoglobin is a nitric oxide-activated 'deoxygenase' p497
Dena M. Minning, Andrew J. Gow, Joseph Bonaventura, Rod Braun, Mark Dewhirst, Daniel E. Goldberg and Jonathan S. Stamler
doi:10.1038/46822
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (256K)
See also: News and Views by Imai
A chain initiation factor common to both modular and aromatic polyketide synthases p502
Christian Bisang, Paul F. Long, Jesús Corte´s, James Westcott, John Crosby, Anne-Lise Matharu, Russell J. Cox, Thomas J. Simpson, James Staunton and Peter F. Leadlay
doi:10.1038/46829
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (196K)
Myosin VI is an actin-based motor that moves backwards p505
Amber L. Wells, Abel W. Lin, Li-Qiong Chen, Daniel Safer, Shane M. Cain, Tama Hasson, Bridget O. Carragher, Ronald A. Milligan and H. Lee Sweeney
doi:10.1038/46835
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (331K)
See also: News and Views by Schliwa
erratum: Changing spatial structure of the thermohaline circulation in response to atmospheric CO2 forcing in a climate model p508
Richard A. Wood, Ann B. Keen, John F. B. Mitchell and Jonathan M. Gregory
doi:10.1038/46840
New on the Market
Hardware harvest p509
Mini, not by Issigonis, a Mark 7, not by Jaguar, and Tube-Tickler star this week.
doi:10.1038/46843
