Table of contents
Volume 407 Number 6807 pp929-1036
Opinion
Mad cows cast long shadows p929
Scientists may escape the worst of the flak from Britain's BSE inquiry, but they ignore its lessons at their peril.
doi:10.1038/35039677
Recognition for mathematics is overdue p929
The prospect of a boost in funding for US mathematicians should be warmly welcomed by the entire scientific community.
doi:10.1038/35039679
News
NSF calls for funding boost in a bid to reverse decline in maths p931
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/35039681
Four more moons for Saturn p931
David Adam
doi:10.1038/35039684
UK ministry under fire over handling of BSE research p932
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/35039687
Global warming identified as main threat to coral reefs p932
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/35039690
Carbon sequestration gains support p932
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/35039693
US Geological Survey needs more resources, says draft report p933
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/35039695
Fan mail demands reprieve for delayed US Pluto mission p933
William Triplett
doi:10.1038/35039697
Germany gives green light to gene patents p934
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/35039700
Human Frontier repatriation boost p934
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/35039703
Japanese court backs woman researcher p935
Robert Triendl
doi:10.1038/35039706
Singapore to create nationwide disease database p935
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/35039708
News Feature
Clean and green. . .but are they mean? p938
Chemists are working to find alternatives to the noxious organic solvents that currently dominate their industry. As the leading candidates begin to hit the production plant, David Adam tests the atmosphere.
David Adam
doi:10.1038/35039717
Correspondence
Disease should be targeted from all angles p941
M. F. Greaves
doi:10.1038/35039723
Returners not welcome at Spanish universities p941
Pau Ferrer
doi:10.1038/35039725
No evidence to link polio vaccine with HIV ... p941
Stanley A. Plotkin and Hilary Koprowski
doi:10.1038/35039727
Book Reviews
Sexually transmitted retribution p943
A history of attitudes towards sinning and its consequences.
W. F. Bynum reviews The Wages of Sin: Sex and Disease, Past and Present by Peter Lewis Allen
doi:10.1038/35039628
Ways to get them through the door p944
Graham Farmelo reviews Museums of Modern Science (Nobel Symposium 112) edited by Svante Lindqvist
doi:10.1038/35039631
Life and times of a pioneering polymath p945
Thomas R. Dunlap reviews George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation by David Lowenthal
doi:10.1038/35039634
Parasites at the heart of ecology p945
Ted J. Case reviews The Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Host–Parasitoid Interactions by M. P. Hassell
doi:10.1038/35039637
Science in culture p946
Philip Ball reviews
doi:10.1038/35039639
Millennium Essay
High achiever p947
The discovery of the stratosphere laid the foundations of geophysics.
Mott T. Greene
doi:10.1038/35039642
News and Views
ATP, pain and a full bladder p951
Sensations of pain have many causes, from tissue damage to sunburn. Several types of pain are sensed by a mechanism involving ATP — the chemical powerhouse of all cells.
Sean P. Cook and Edwin W. McCleskey
doi:10.1038/35039648
Astronomy: The red ragged edge p952
Brian G. Marsden
doi:10.1038/35039651
Neurobiology: Convoluted communications p953
TromansAmanda
doi:10.1038/35039654
Behavioural ecology: Why are some males dull? p955
Tore Slagsvold
doi:10.1038/35039657
100 and 50 years ago p955
doi:10.1038/35039659
El Niño: Clues from corals p956
Robert B. Dunbar
doi:10.1038/35039661
Photosynthesis: Carbon fix for a diatom p959
Ulf Riebesell
doi:10.1038/35039665
Nanotechnology: Crossroads in carbon p959
VenemaLiesbeth
doi:10.1038/35039668
Brief Communications
Insecticides and mosquito-borne disease p961
Insecticide resistance in mosquitoes can also interfere with developing parasites.
L. McCarroll, M. G. Paton, S. H. P. P. Karunaratne, H. T. R. Jayasuryia, K. S. P. Kalpage and J. Hemingway
doi:10.1038/35039671
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Evolution: Paying for sex is not easy p962
S. A. West and A. D. Peters
doi:10.1038/35039675
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Review
Regenerating the damaged central nervous system p963
Philip J. Horner and Fred H. Gage
doi:10.1038/35039559
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Article
Structural basis of glutamate recognition by a dimeric metabotropic glutamate receptor p971
Naoki Kunishima, Yoshimi Shimada, Yuji Tsuji, Toshihiro Sato, Masaki Yamamoto, Takashi Kumasaka, Shigetada Nakanishi, Hisato Jingami and Kosuke Morikawa
doi:10.1038/35039564
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Letters to Nature
Extremely red Kuiper-belt objects in near-circular orbits beyond 40 AU p979
S. C. Tegler and W. Romanishin
doi:10.1038/35039572
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See also: News and Views by Marsden
n-type colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals p981
Moonsub Shim and Philippe Guyot-Sionnest
doi:10.1038/35039577
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Three-dimensional control of light in a two-dimensional photonic crystal slab p983
Edmond Chow, S.Y. Lin, S.G. Johnson, P.R. Villeneuve, J.D. Joannopoulos, J.R. Wendt, G.A. Vawter, W. Zubrzycki, H. Hou and A. Alleman
doi:10.1038/35039583
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Geometry-dominated fluid adsorption on sculpted solid substrates p986
C. Rascón and A. O. Parry
doi:10.1038/35039590
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Influence of mean climate change on climate variability from a 155-year tropical Pacific coral record p989
Frank E. Urban, Julia E. Cole and Jonathan T. Overpeck
doi:10.1038/35039597
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See also: News and Views by Dunbar
Widespread uplift and 'trapdoor' faulting on Galápagos volcanoes observed with radar interferometry p993
Falk Amelung, Sigurjón Jónsson, Howard Zebker and Paul Segall
doi:10.1038/35039604
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Unicellular C4 photosynthesis in a marine diatom p996
John R. Reinfelder, Anne M. L. Kraepiel and François M. M. Morel
doi:10.1038/35039612
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See also: News and Views by Riebesell
Disruptive sexual selection for plumage coloration in a passerine bird p1000
Erick Greene, Bruce E. Lyon, Vincent R. Muehter, Laurene Ratcliffe, Steven J. Oliver and Peter T. Boag
doi:10.1038/35039500
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See also: News and Views by Slagsvold
An area for vergence eye movement in primate frontal cortex p1003
Paul D. Gamlin and Kyunghee Yoon
doi:10.1038/35039506
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The mammalian sodium channel BNC1 is required for normal touch sensation p1007
Margaret P. Price, Gary R. Lewin, Sabrina L. McIlwrath, Chun Cheng, Jinghui Xie, Paul A. Heppenstall, Cheryl L. Stucky, Anne G. Mannsfeldt, Timothy J. Brennan, Heather A. Drummond, Jing Qiao, Christopher J. Benson, Deirdre E. Tarr, Ron F. Hrstka, Baoli Yang, Roger A. Williamson and Michael J. Welsh
doi:10.1038/35039512
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Urinary bladder hyporeflexia and reduced pain-related behaviour in P2X 3-deficient mice p1011
Debra A. Cockayne, Sara G. Hamilton, Quan-Ming Zhu, Philip M. Dunn, Yu Zhong, Sanja Novakovic, Annika B. Malmberg, Gary Cain, Amy Berson, Laura Kassotakis, Linda Hedley, Wilhelm G. Lachnit, Geoffrey Burnstock, Stephen B. McMahon and Anthony P. D. W. Ford
doi:10.1038/35039519
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See also: News and Views by Cook & McCleskey
Warm-coding deficits and aberrant inflammatory pain in mice lacking P2X 3 receptors p1015
Veronika Souslova, Paolo Cesare, Yanning Ding, Armen N. Akopian, Louise Stanfa, Rie Suzuki, Katherine Carpenter, Anthony Dickenson, Susan Boyce, Ray Hill, Daniela Nebenius-Oosthuizen, Andrew J.H. Smith, Emma J. Kidd and John N. Wood
doi:10.1038/35039526
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See also: News and Views by Cook & McCleskey
Frequent ectopic recombination of virulence factor genes in telomeric chromosome clusters of P. falciparum p1018
Lúcio H. Freitas-Junior, Emmanuel Bottius, Lindsay A. Pirrit, Kirk W. Deitsch, Christine Scheidig, Francoise Guinet, Ulf Nehrbass, Thomas E. Wellems and Artur Scherf
doi:10.1038/35039531
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Matrix proteins can generate the higher order architecture of the Golgi apparatus p1022
Joachim Seemann, Eija Jokitalo, Marc Pypaert and Graham Warren
doi:10.1038/35039538
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Steps and fluctuations of Listeria monocytogenes during actin-based motility p1026
Scot C. Kuo and James L. McGrath
doi:10.1038/35039544
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Crystal structure of fibroblast growth factor receptor ectodomain bound to ligand and heparin p1029
Luca Pellegrini, David F. Burke, Frank von Delft, Barbara Mulloy and Tom L. Blundell
doi:10.1038/35039551
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New on the Market
New for the neurosciences p1035
Kainic acid is back on the menu — but no longer from the sea.
doi:10.1038/35039623