Publicly funded agricultural research continues to languish in the United States, despite attempts for its stronger support.
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Volume 405 Number 6782 pp1-102
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News
NIH opposes plans for patenting 'similar' gene sequences p3
Shareholder sues Celera over loss p3
Doubts and uncertainties slow NASA's schedule p4
Spain gives science and technology a ministry of its own p4
New panel set to beat biotech's bad image... p5
... as European public remains sceptical p5
Battle lines shift in stem-cell funding fight... p6
... as non-profit companies enter the fray p6
CJD survey offers Britain a glimmer of hope p7
Space-station airlock to serve as temporary lab p7
NSF celebrates half a century with big plans p8
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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
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Correspondence
Sagan breached security by revealing US work on a lunar bomb project p13
Austria takes lab animal welfare seriously p13
How metrics could have saved UK car industry p13
Instrument's ability to do the job is NASA's priority p14
Putting marine mammals back in the mainstream p14
Persian role in flowering of Islamic science p14
Erratum: Distinguished scientists back Germany's DFG... p14
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Book Reviews
Hell-fire and medication p15
Doctors delighted in the glow of phosphorus, but it killed more than it saved.
doi:10.1038/35011112
Tales from a continental drifter p16
doi:10.1038/35011115
Winging their way p17
doi:10.1038/35011117
Flight recordings p17
doi:10.1038/35011119
Strolling through the bioenergy field p18
New in paperback p18
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Millennium Essay
Oeconomia Naturae L. p19
The ecology of Linnaeus was Stoic, Baroque and surprisingly modern.
Geir Hestmark
doi:10.1038/35011237
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News and Views
海洋学：海での進化の不思議
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
古人類学：アフリカの海に沿って
Palaeoanthropology: Coasting out of Africa p24
100 and 50 years ago p25
doi:10.1038/35011170
流体力学：いつもと違う乱れ方
Fluid dynamics: Turbulence without inertia p27
アポトーシス：会えなくなっても忘れない
Apoptosis: Gone but not forgotten p28
X線天文学：宇宙の灯台
X-ray astronomy: How far to the cosmic lighthouse? p29
地球科学：理解を拒む頑固な断層
Earth science: Strength of the San Andreas p31
分子進化：色素体の誕生日は1つ？
Molecular evolution: A single birth of all plastids? p32
Daedalus: A flicker of interest p33
Obituary: Jane Gray (1929–2000) p34
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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
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
Genome stability: Transgenerational mutation by radiation p37
Yuri E. Dubrova, Mark Plumb, Bruno Gutierrez, Emma Boulton and Alec J. Jeffreys
doi:10.1038/35011135
Erratum: Stomach rinsing in rays p38
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Article
生態：浮遊性有孔虫の北極および南極亜極地方個体群の遺伝子混合を示す分子レベルの証拠
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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Letters to Nature
宇宙：木星の塵の流れの源としてのイオ
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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物性：常金属／超伝導体接合における2倍化された散弾雑音の検出
Detection of doubled shot noise in short normal-metal/ superconductor junctions p50
複雑系：高分子溶液の流れに見られる弾性の乱れ
Elastic turbulence in a polymer solution flow p53
化学：官能基パターンをもつナノ構造物の高速作製法
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
環境：熱帯でのエアロゾル強制力の大気最上部と地表での大きな差
Large differences in tropical aerosol forcing at the top of the atmosphere and Earth's surface p60
地球：軸対称双極子地球磁場の核‐マントル熱的相互作用に対する感度
Sensitivity of the geomagnetic axial dipole to thermal core–mantle interactions p63
進化：最終間氷期にエリトリアの紅海の浜辺に初期人類が居住した跡
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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進化：紅藻の起源と葉緑体の進化
The origin of red algae and the evolution of chloroplasts p69
David Moreira, Hervé Le Guyader and Hervé Philippe
doi:10.1038/35011054
神経：小脳プルキンエ細胞の集団による運動時間の符号化
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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発生：ゼブラフィッシュの原腸形成において
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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発生：Dishevelledタンパク質はアフリカツメガエルの原腸形成時の細胞極性を制御する
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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生理：アポトーシス細胞のホスファチジルセリン特異的除去を担う受容体
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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免疫：JNKはエフェクターT細胞の機能には必要だが、T細胞活性化には必要ない
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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生化学：細胞外に排出されたキノンが細胞外電子伝達に果たす役割
A role for excreted quinones in extracellular electron transfer p94
生化学：シクロオキシゲナーゼ反応の立体化学への構造的洞察
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
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
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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
