Table of contents
Volume 405 Number 6782 pp1-102
Opinion
Agricultural research whistling in the dark p1
Publicly funded agricultural research continues to languish in the United States, despite attempts for its stronger support.
doi:10.1038/35011197
News
NIH opposes plans for patenting 'similar' gene sequences p3
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/35011199
Shareholder sues Celera over loss p3
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/35011202
Doubts and uncertainties slow NASA's schedule p4
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/35011204
Spain gives science and technology a ministry of its own p4
Xavier Bosch
doi:10.1038/35011207
New panel set to beat biotech's bad image... p5
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/35011209
... as European public remains sceptical p5
Heather McCabe
doi:10.1038/35011212
Battle lines shift in stem-cell funding fight... p6
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/35011214
... as non-profit companies enter the fray p6
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/35011217
CJD survey offers Britain a glimmer of hope p7
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/35011219
Space-station airlock to serve as temporary lab p7
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/35011222
NSF celebrates half a century with big plans p8
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/35011225
News Feature
The missionary from Munich p10
Germany's network of national research centres is trying to reinvent itself. Alison Abbott talks to Rudi Balling, the dynamic biologist charged with revitalizing one of the country's scientific underachievers.
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/35011232
Correspondence
Sagan breached security by revealing US work on a lunar bomb project p13
Leonard Reiffel
doi:10.1038/35011148
Austria takes lab animal welfare seriously p13
Wolf Frühauf
doi:10.1038/35011150
How metrics could have saved UK car industry p13
Michael T. Knowles
doi:10.1038/35011152
Instrument's ability to do the job is NASA's priority p14
Donald A. Kniffen
doi:10.1038/35011154
Putting marine mammals back in the mainstream p14
David W. Sims
doi:10.1038/35011156
Persian role in flowering of Islamic science p14
Saadi Khochbin
doi:10.1038/35011158
Erratum: Distinguished scientists back Germany's DFG... p14
Nature
doi:10.1038/35011160
Book Reviews
Hell-fire and medication p15
Doctors delighted in the glow of phosphorus, but it killed more than it saved.
Ryan J. Huxtable reviews The Shocking History of Phosphorus: A Biography of the Devil's Element by John Emsley
doi:10.1038/35011112
Tales from a continental drifter p16
Alan Longhurst reviews The Eternal Darkness by Robert Ballard and Will Hively
doi:10.1038/35011115
Winging their way p17
R. McNeill Alexander reviews The Biomechanics of Insect Flight: Form, Function, Evolution by Robert Dudley and Form and Function of Insect Wings: The Evolution of Biological Structures by Dmitry L. Grodnitsky
doi:10.1038/35011117
Flight recordings p17
doi:10.1038/35011119
Strolling through the bioenergy field p18
Paul D. Boyer reviews The Energy of Life by Guy Brown
doi:10.1038/35011122
New in paperback p18
doi:10.1038/35011124
Millennium Essay
Oeconomia Naturae L. p19
The ecology of Linnaeus was Stoic, Baroque and surprisingly modern.
Geir Hestmark
doi:10.1038/35011237
Futures
Et in articulo mortis p21
Humankind still has need of dragon slayers.
Han Yu
doi:10.1038/35011126
News and Views
Evolution all at sea p23
Evidence of gene flow between plankton in the Arctic and Antarctic is one surprise. Another is the discovery of hitherto hidden genetic diversity in these organisms.
Richard D. Norris and Colomban de Vargas
doi:10.1038/35011162
Palaeoanthropology: Coasting out of Africa p24
Chris Stringer
doi:10.1038/35011166
100 and 50 years ago p25
doi:10.1038/35011170
Fluid dynamics: Turbulence without inertia p27
Ronald G. Larson
doi:10.1038/35011172
Apoptosis: Gone but not forgotten p28
Douglas R. Green and Helen M. Beere
doi:10.1038/35011175
X-ray astronomy: How far to the cosmic lighthouse? p29
Sarah Tomlin
doi:10.1038/35011178
Earth science: Strength of the San Andreas p31
Mark D. Zoback
doi:10.1038/35011181
Molecular evolution: A single birth of all plastids? p32
Jeffrey D. Palmer
doi:10.1038/35011184
Daedalus: A flicker of interest p33
David Jones
doi:10.1038/35011187
Obituary: Jane Gray (1929–2000) p34
William A. Shear
doi:10.1038/35011189
Brief Communications
Beetle larvae cooperate to mimic bees p35
These parasites get into bees' nests by fooling males into trying to mate with them.
John Hafernik and Leslie Saul-Gershenz
doi:10.1038/35011129
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Ecosystems: Coral bleach-out in Belize p36
Richard B. Aronson, William F. Precht, Ian G. Macintyre and Thaddeus J. T. Murdoch
doi:10.1038/35011132
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Genome stability: Transgenerational mutation by radiation p37
Yuri E. Dubrova, Mark Plumb, Bruno Gutierrez, Emma Boulton and Alec J. Jeffreys
doi:10.1038/35011135
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Erratum: Stomach rinsing in rays p38
David W. Sims, Paul L. R. Andrews and J. Z. Young
doi:10.1038/35011143
Progress
A surprising simplicity to protein folding p39
David Baker
doi:10.1038/35011000
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Article
Molecular evidence for genetic mixing of Arctic and Antarctic subpolar populations of planktonic foraminifers p43
Kate F. Darling, Christopher M. Wade, Iain A. Stewart, Dick Kroon, Richard Dingle and Andrew J. Leigh Brown
doi:10.1038/35011002
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See also: News and Views by Norris & de Vargas
Letters to Nature
Io as a source of the jovian dust streams p48
A. L. Graps, E. Grün, H. Svedhem, H. Krüger, M. Horányi, A. Heck and S. Lammers
doi:10.1038/35011008
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Detection of doubled shot noise in short normal-metal/ superconductor junctions p50
X. Jehl, M. Sanquer, R. Calemczuk and D. Mailly
doi:10.1038/35011012
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Elastic turbulence in a polymer solution flow p53
A. Groisman and V. Steinberg
doi:10.1038/35011019
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See also: News and Views by Larson
Rapid prototyping of patterned functional nanostructures p56
Hongyou Fan, Yunfeng Lu, Aaron Stump, Scott T. Reed, Tom Baer, Randy Schunk, Victor Perez-Luna, Gabriel P. López and C. Jeffrey Brinker
doi:10.1038/35011026
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Large differences in tropical aerosol forcing at the top of the atmosphere and Earth's surface p60
S. K. Satheesh and V. Ramanathan
doi:10.1038/35011039
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Sensitivity of the geomagnetic axial dipole to thermal core–mantle interactions p63
Jeremy Bloxham
doi:10.1038/35011045
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Early human occupation of the Red Sea coast of Eritrea during the last interglacial p65
Robert C. Walter, Richard T. Buffler, J. Henrich Bruggemann, Mireille M. M. Guillaume, Seife M. Berhe, Berhane Negassi, Yoseph Libsekal, Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards, Rudo von Cosel, Didier Néraudeau and Mario Gagnon
doi:10.1038/35011048
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See also: News and Views by Palmer
The origin of red algae and the evolution of chloroplasts p69
David Moreira, Hervé Le Guyader and Hervé Philippe
doi:10.1038/35011054
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Encoding of movement time by populations of cerebellar Purkinje cells p72
Peter Thier, Peter W. Dicke, Roman Haas and Shabtai Barash
doi:10.1038/35011062
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Silberblick/Wnt11 mediates convergent extension movements during zebrafish gastrulation p76
Carl-Philipp Heisenberg, Masazumi Tada, Gerd-Jörg Rauch, Leonor Saúde, Miguel L. Concha, Robert Geisler, Derek L. Stemple, James C. Smith and Stephen W. Wilson
doi:10.1038/35011068
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Dishevelled controls cell polarity during Xenopus gastrulation p81
John B. Wallingford, Brian A. Rowning, Kevin M. Vogeli, Ute Rothbächer, Scott E. Fraser and Richard M. Harland
doi:10.1038/35011077
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A receptor for phosphatidylserine-specific clearance of apoptotic cells p85
Valerie A. Fadok, Donna L. Bratton, David M. Rose, Alan Pearson, R. Alan B. Ezekewitz and Peter M. Henson
doi:10.1038/35011084
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See also: News and Views by Green & Beere
JNK is required for effector T-cell function but not for T-cell activation p91
Chen Dong, Derek D. Yang, Cathy Tournier, Alan J. Whitmarsh, Jie Xu, Roger J. Davis and Richard A. Flavell
doi:10.1038/35011091
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A role for excreted quinones in extracellular electron transfer p94
Dianne K. Newman and Roberto Kolter
doi:10.1038/35011098
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Structural insights into the stereochemistry of the cyclooxygenase reaction p97
James R. Kiefer, Jennifer L. Pawlitz, Kirby T. Moreland, Roderick A. Stegeman, William F. Hood, James K. Gierse, Anna M. Stevens, Douglas C. Goodwin, Scott W. Rowlinson, Lawrence J. Marnett, William C. Stallings and Ravi G. Kurumbail
doi:10.1038/35011103
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erratum: The earliest angiosperms: evidence from mitochondrial, plastid and nuclear genomes p101
Yin-Long Qiu, Jungho Lee, Fabiana Bernasconi-Quadroni , Douglas E. Soltis, Pamela S. Soltis, Michael Zanis , Elizabeth A. Zimmer, Zhiduan Chen, Vincent Savolainen and Mark W. Chase
doi:10.1038/35011110
New on the Market
Why not take one for a spin? p102
The latest in centrifuges — loads of g, masses of speed, but not much noise.
doi:10.1038/35011145
