Table of contents
Volume 403 Number 6769 pp467-578
Opinion
Seeds of consensus p467
A global agreement on the terms of trade in genetically modified organisms is a victory for common sense. But it also reflects the pragmatic recognition that few would gain from a prolonged trade war over the issue.
doi:10.1038/35000703
Electronic submissions now welcome p467
From this week, Nature encourages authors to send all manuscripts in one of a range of digital formats.
doi:10.1038/35000705
News
Livermore plans radical rescue for 'mismanaged' laser facility p469
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/35000707
Nuclear fusion without weapons testing p469
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/35000712
Japan may allow human embryo stem-cell research p470
David Cyrano
doi:10.1038/35000715
Change of government bodes well for NZ science funding p471
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/35000717
WWW project aims to address worldwide decline in amphibians p471
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/35000721
Anderson steps down from Wellcome over Oxford row p472
Natasha Loder
doi:10.1038/35000724
Nossal named Australian of the Year p472
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/35000726
IBM joins genomics mapping consortium p473
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/35000729
Rules agreed over GM food exports p473
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/35000732
German science begins to cure its historical amnesia p474
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/35000735
Correspondence
Apathy rewards misconduct — and everybody suffers p478
Herbert N. Arst, Jr
doi:10.1038/35000742
End of impact factors? p478
John Brunstein
doi:10.1038/35000744
Nucleic acids revelation delayed by a sceptic p478
Friedrich Katscher
doi:10.1038/35000746
Proteomics is getting easier in some ways... p478
Joan L. Slonczewski
doi:10.1038/35000748
... and should be treated the same as genomics p478
Jeffrey E. Segall
doi:10.1038/35000750
Book Reviews
The decade of the sheep p479
How a discredited technique led to the potential for creating new species.
Anne McLaren reviews The Second Creation: The Age of Biological Control by the Scientists that Cloned DollyIan Wilmut, Keith Campbell and Colin Tudge
doi:10.1038/35000632
Dead branches on the tree of life p480
David M. Irwin reviews In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life by Henry Gee
doi:10.1038/35000635
Building industrial art p481
doi:10.1038/35000637
Textiles, bridges, plastics and chips p481
Gunhard Æ. Oravas reviews Technology in America: A Brief HistoryAlan I. Marcus and Howard P. Segal
doi:10.1038/35000640
Cocktail-party gossip aplenty p481
Jeanne Altmann reviews Primate Sexuality: Comparative Studies of the Prosimians, Monkeys, Apes, and Human Beings by Alan Dixson
doi:10.1038/35000642
Science in culture p482
John E. Thornes reviews
doi:10.1038/35000644
Millennium Essay
Decline of the generalist p483
The vigour of every discipline depends on people of broad vision.
Frederick Seitz
doi:10.1038/35000668
Futures
From Caribbean to Clementine p485
The road to the stars begins in the ocean depths.
Stephen Baxter
doi:10.1038/35000671
News and Views
Lightning: Fluff balls of fire p487
The most mysterious sort of lightning is ball lightning — glowing spheres of light that float in air. A new theory claims to explain nearly all the properties of these unusual balls of fire.
Graham K. Hubler
doi:10.1038/35000674
100 and 50 years ago p488
doi:10.1038/35000677
Animal behaviour: Survey flights in honeybees p488
Thomas Collett
doi:10.1038/35000679
Condensed-matter physics: Electrons in the looking glass p489
Eric Heller
doi:10.1038/35000681
Cancer: Gene expression in diagnosis p491
Anton Berns
doi:10.1038/35000684
Plant ecology: Alien invaders p492
Peter D. Moore
doi:10.1038/35000686
Hydrology: The sting in a fractal tail p493
Colin P. Stark and Marc Stieglitz
doi:10.1038/35000689
Huntington's disease: A predictor of pathology p495
John C. Rothwell
doi:10.1038/35000692
Molecular dynamics: Optical control of reactions p496
Stuart A. Rice
doi:10.1038/35000695
Daedalus: Perfect dryness p497
David Jones
doi:10.1038/35000698
Obituary: Olivier Kahn (1943–99) p498
Peter Day
doi:10.1038/35000700
Brief Communications
Longevity record for deep-sea invertebrate p499
The growth rate of a marine tubeworm is tailored to different environments.
Derk C. Bergquist, Frederick M. Williams and Charles R. Fisher
doi:10.1038/35000647
Reproductive biology: Mitochondria and the death of oocytes p500
Gloria I. Perez, Alexander M. Trbovich, Roger G. Gosden and Jonathan L. Tilly
doi:10.1038/35000651
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Mitochondria and the death of oocytes p501
David C. Krakauer and Alex Mira
doi:10.1038/35000654
Embryogenesis: Demethylation of the zygotic paternal genome p501
Wolfgang Mayer, Alain Niveleau, Jörn Walter, Reinald Fundele and Thomas Haaf
doi:10.1038/35000656
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Correction p502
doi:10.1038/35000659
Article
Distinct types of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma identified by gene expression profiling p503
Ash A. Alizadeh, Michael B. Eisen, R. Eric Davis, Chi Ma, Izidore S. Lossos, Andreas Rosenwald, Jennifer C. Boldrick, Hajeer Sabet, Truc Tran, Xin Yu, John I. Powell, Liming Yang, Gerald E. Marti, Troy Moore, James Hudson, Jr, Lisheng Lu, David B. Lewis, Robert Tibshirani, Gavin Sherlock, Wing C. Chan, Timothy C. Greiner, Dennis D. Weisenburger, James O. Armitage, Roger Warnke, Ronald Levy, Wyndham Wilson, Michael R. Grever, John C. Byrd, David Botstein, Patrick O. Brown and Louis M. Staudt
doi:10.1038/35000501
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See also: News and Views by Berns
Letters to Nature
Quantum mirages formed by coherent projection of electronic structure p512
H. C. Manoharan, C. P. Lutz and D. M. Eigler
doi:10.1038/35000508
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See also: News and Views by Heller
Experimental test of quantum nonlocality in three-photon Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger entanglement p515
Jian-Wei Pan, Dik Bouwmeester, Matthew Daniell, Harald Weinfurter and Anton Zeilinger
doi:10.1038/35000514
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Ball lightning caused by oxidation of nanoparticle networks from normal lightning strikes on soil p519
John Abrahamson and James Dinniss
doi:10.1038/35000525
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See also: News and Views by Hubler
Large-scale complementary integrated circuits based on organic transistors p521
B. Crone, A. Dodabalapur, Y.-Y. Lin, R. W. Filas, Z. Bao, A. LaDuca, R. Sarpeshkar, H. E. Katz and W. Li
doi:10.1038/35000530
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Fractal stream chemistry and its implications for contaminant transport in catchments p524
James W. Kirchner, Xiahong Feng and Colin Neal
doi:10.1038/35000537
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See also: News and Views by Stark & Stieglitz
Rapid diffusive infiltration of sodium into partially molten peridotite p527
Craig C. Lundstrom
doi:10.1038/35000546
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Oxygen-isotope evidence for recycled crust in the sources of mid-ocean-ridge basalts p530
John M. Eiler, Pierre Schiano, Nami Kitchen and Edward M. Stolper
doi:10.1038/35000553
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Quality of the fossil record through time p534
M. J. Benton, M. A. Wills and R. Hitchin
doi:10.1038/35000558
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Ontogeny of orientation flight in the honeybee revealed by harmonic radar p537
Elizabeth A. Capaldi, Alan D. Smith, Juliet L. Osborne, Susan E. Fahrbach, Sarah M. Farris, Donald R. Reynolds, Ann S. Edwards, Andrew Martin, Gene E. Robinson, Guy M. Poppy and Joseph R. Riley
doi:10.1038/35000564
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See also: News and Views by Collett
Myoglobin-like aerotaxis transducers in Archaea and Bacteria p540
Shaobin Hou, Randy W. Larsen, Dmitri Boudko, Charles W. Riley, Ece Karatan, Mike Zimmer, George W. Ordal and Maqsudul Alam
doi:10.1038/35000570
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Motor disorder in Huntington's disease begins as a dysfunction in error feedback control p544
Maurice A. Smith, Jason Brandt and Reza Shadmehr
doi:10.1038/35000576
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See also: News and Views by Rothwell
A neuronal analogue of state-dependent learning p549
D. E. Shulz, R. Sosnik, V. Ego, S. Haidarliu and E. Ahissar
doi:10.1038/35000586
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Modulation of A-type potassium channels by a family of calcium sensors p553
W. Frank An, Mark R. Bowlby, Maria Betty, Jie Cao, Huai-Ping Ling, Grace Mendoza, Joseph W. Hinson, Karen I. Mattsson, Brian W. Strassle, James S. Trimmer and Kenneth J. Rhodes
doi:10.1038/35000592
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Slowed recovery of rod photoresponse in mice lacking the GTPase accelerating protein RGS9-1 p557
Ching-Kang Chen, Marie E. Burns, Wei He, Theodore G. Wensel, Denis A. Baylor and Melvin I. Simon
doi:10.1038/35000601
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Food and metabolic signalling defects in a Caenorhabditis elegans serotonin-synthesis mutant p560
Ji Ying Sze, Martin Victor, Curtis Loer, Yang Shi and Gary Ruvkun
doi:10.1038/35000609
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Evidence for stabilizing selection in a eukaryotic enhancer element p564
Michael Z. Ludwig, Casey Bergman, Nipam H. Patel and Martin Kreitman
doi:10.1038/35000615
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Structure of human guanylate-binding protein 1 representing a unique class of GTP-binding proteins p567
Balaji Prakash, Gerrit J. K. Praefcke, Louis Renault, Alfred Wittinghofer and Christian Herrmann
doi:10.1038/35000617
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Alternative modular polyketide synthase expression controls macrolactone structure p571
Yongquan Xue and David H. Sherman
doi:10.1038/35000624
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Article
erratum The neurobiology of cognition p575
M. James Nichols and William T. Newsome
doi:10.1038/35000630
New on the Market
Six chromatography columns p577
Recent releases from manufacturers of chromatographs and accessories.
doi:10.1038/35000661
