Table of contents
Volume 408 Number 6814 pp755-884
Opinion
Restoring faith in anthropology p755
Rebuttals of a controversial book that alleges malpractice by distinguished anthropologists have so far confused rather than clarified the situation. An independent inquiry is urgently needed.
doi:10.1038/35048713
News
Japan to bypass bureaucracy by reshaping science ministries p757
David Cyranoski and Robert Triendl
doi:10.1038/35048715
Germany sets up electronic archive p757
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/35048718
Forces for collaboration falter with human genome in sight p758
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/35048720
Faster sequencing slows down release of mouse gene data p758
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/35048724
Japan pins hopes on fast-breeder nuclear option p759
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/35048727
Publication deal for Celera sparks row over data access p759
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/35048730
California invests $300 million in high tech p760
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/35048733
Pesticides implicated in declining frog numbers p760
Jessa Netting
doi:10.1038/35048736
Galapagos ecologists under threat from violent protests p761
Mark Schrope
doi:10.1038/35048739
Virtual laboratory will recreate classic experiments p761
Vera Bettenworth and Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/35048742
News Feature
Swimming against the tide p764
Toshio Yanagida rejects the conventional biophysical explanation of muscle contraction. No one doubts his technical genius, but could the debate he started ultimately hold back the field? David Cyranoski investigates.
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/35048748
Correspondence
Beefing about the risks posed by the French BSE epidemic p767
John Krebs
doi:10.1038/35048753
Acid test finally wiped out vitalism, and yet . . . p767
Sidney Toby
doi:10.1038/35048755
. . . we need a metaphor to explain life's mystery p767
Richard Strohman
doi:10.1038/35048757
Ecology needs theory as well as practice p768
Brian A. Maurer
doi:10.1038/35048759
Pressure to meet current needs hinders science p768
Rodney W. Nichols
doi:10.1038/35048761
Book Reviews
Programmed for defence p769
Fred Rosen reviews The War Within Us: Everyman's Guide to Infection and Immunity by Cedric Mims
doi:10.1038/35048623
Gene games of the future p769
Veronica van Heyningen reviews Engineering the Human Germline: An Exploration of the Science and Ethics of Altering the Genes We Pass to Our Children
doi:10.1038/35048626
Scientifically speaking p770
doi:10.1038/35048628
Extremophiles in the raw p771
P. G. Willmer reviews The Surprising Archaea: Discovering Another Domain of Life by John L. Howland
doi:10.1038/35048631
New in paperback p771
doi:10.1038/35048633
Millennium Essay
A cellular cornucopia p773
Stem cells generate new possibilities for research and therapy.
Margaret Buckingham
doi:10.1038/35048635
Futures
The holdouts p775
The contrarians of physics get strung out in Chicago.
George Zebrowski
doi:10.1038/35048640
News and Views
Swimming in Flatsea p777
Some of the simplest questions are the hardest to answer. Why flags flap is a long-standing puzzle that becomes easier to solve in a two-dimensional world.
Greg Huber
doi:10.1038/35048643
100 and 50 years ago p778
doi:10.1038/35048646
Evolutionary developmental biology: Head start p778
Some neat transgenic experiments show how the evolution of the vertebrate head stemmed, at least in part, from elaboration of controls on pre-existing genetic machinery.
John R. Finnerty
doi:10.1038/35048648
Condensed-matter science: Five-fold symmetry in liquids p781
A complete description of the structure of simple liquids is missing from our understanding of matter. But new observations show that liquids contain many configurations with five-fold symmetry.
Frans Spaepen
doi:10.1038/35048652
RNA splicing: The case for an RNA enzyme p782
New evidence suggests that RNA splicing, the removal of non-coding parts of a messenger RNA, is catalysed by an RNA component of the splicing machinery. This component binds a crucial metal ion.
Timothy W. Nilsen
doi:10.1038/35048655
Superconductivity: Geometry spawns vortices p783
The properties of superconductors can be affected by their shape. This effect is increasingly noticeable as the size of the superconductor decreases.
Alan T. Dorsey
doi:10.1038/35048658
Plant biology: Volatile defence p785
Amanda Tromans
doi:10.1038/35048660
Obituary: Michael Smith (1932–2000) p786
Michael R. Hayden and Victor Ling
doi:10.1038/35048663
Brief Communications
Likely size of the French BSE epidemic p787
Epidemiological analysis helps in evaluating the potential risks of eating French beef.
Christl A. Donnelly
doi:10.1038/35048666
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Illusions: What you see is what you hear p788
Ladan Shams, Yukiyasu Kamitani and Shinsuke Shimojo
doi:10.1038/35048669
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Biogeochemistry: Soil warming and organic carbon content p789
Eric A. Davidson, Susan E. Trumbore and Ronald Amundson
doi:10.1038/35048672
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reply: Soil warming and organic carbon content p790
Christian P. Giardina and Michael G. Ryan
doi:10.1038/35048675
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Special
forewordA. thaliana genome p791
doi:10.1038/35048677
news feature
Now for the hard ones p792
Arabidopsis was an obvious choice for the first plant genome project, but it will never feed the world. David Adam reports on efforts to harvest the genomes of rice and other important crop plants.
David Adam
doi:10.1038/35048680
news and views
A green chapter in the book of life p794
The sequencing of an entire plant genome is now complete. The information it contains provides an unparalleled resource for understanding the evolution of flowering plants and the genetics of crop plants.
Virginia Walbot
doi:10.1038/35048685
special
articleAnalysis of the genome sequence of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana p796
and The Arabidopsis Genome Initiative
doi:10.1038/35048692
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Special
letters to natureSequence and analysis of chromosome 1 of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana p816
Athanasios Theologis, Joseph R. Ecker, Curtis J. Palm, Nancy A. Federspiel, Samir Kaul, Owen White, Jose Alonso, Hootan Altafi, Rina Araujo, Cheryl L. Bowman, Shelise Y. Brooks, Eugen Buehler, April Chan, Qimin Chao, Huaming Chen, Rosa F. Cheuk, Christina W. Chin, Mike K. Chung, Lane Conn, Aaron B. Conway, Andrew R. Conway, Todd H. Creasy, Ken Dewar, Patrick Dunn, Pelin Etgu, Tamara V. Feldblyum, JiDong Feng, Betty Fong, Claire Y. Fujii, John E. Gill, Andrew D. Goldsmith, Brian Haas, Nancy F. Hansen, Beth Hughes, Lucas Huizar, Jonathan L. Hunter, Jennifer Jenkins, Chanda Johnson-Hopson, Shehnaz Khan, Elizabeth Khaykin, Christopher J. Kim, Hean L. Koo, Irina Kremenetskaia, David B. Kurtz, Andrea Kwan, Bao Lam, Stephanie Langin-Hooper, Andrew Lee, Jeong M. Lee, Catherine A. Lenz, Joycelyn. H. Li, YaPing Li, Xiaoying Lin, Shirley X. Liu, Zhaoying A. Liu, Jason S. Luros, Rama Maiti, Andre Marziali, Jennifer Militscher, Molly Miranda, Michelle Nguyen, William C. Nierman, Brian I. Osborne, Grace Pai, Jeremy Peterson, Paul K. Pham, Michael Rizzo, Timothy Rooney, Don Rowley, Hitomi Sakano, Steven L. Salzberg, Jody R. Schwartz, Paul Shinn, Audrey M. Southwick, Hui Sun, Luke J. Tallon, Gabriel Tambunga, Mitsue J. Toriumi, Christopher D. Town, Teresa Utterback, Susan Van Aken, Maria Vaysberg, Valentina S. Vysotskaia, Michelle Walker, Dongying Wu, Guixia Yu, Claire M. Fraser, J. Craig Venter and Ronald W. Davis
doi:10.1038/35048500
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special
letters to natureSequence and analysis of chromosome 3 of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana p820
and European Union Chromosome 3 Arabidopsis Genome Sequencing Consortium and The Institute for Genomic Research and Kazusa DNA Research Institute
doi:10.1038/35048706
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (126K) | Supplementary information
Sequence and analysis of chromosome 5 of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana p823
and Kazusa DNA Research Institute and The Cold Spring Harbor and Washington University Sequencing Consortium and The European Union Arabidopsis Genome Sequencing Consortium and Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK)
doi:10.1038/35048507
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (183K) | Supplementary information
Article
Geomagnetic intensity variations over the past 780 kyr obtained from near-seafloor magnetic anomalies p827
Jeffrey S. Gee, Steven C. Cande, John A. Hildebrand, Katie Donnelly and Robert L. Parker
doi:10.1038/35048513
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (325K) | Supplementary information
Letters to Nature
Symmetry-induced formation of antivortices in mesoscopic superconductors p833
Liviu F. Chibotaru, Arnout Ceulemans, Vital Bruyndoncx and Victor V. Moshchalkov
doi:10.1038/35048521
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See also: News and Views by Dorsey
Flexible filaments in a flowing soap film as a model for one-dimensional flags in a two-dimensional wind p835
Jun Zhang, Stephen Childress, Albert Libchaber and Michael Shelley
doi:10.1038/35048530
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See also: News and Views by Huber
Observation of five-fold local symmetry in liquid lead p839
H. Reichert, O. Klein, H. Dosch, M. Denk, V. Honkimäki, T. Lippmann and G. Reiter
doi:10.1038/35048537
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See also: News and Views by Spaepen
Role of sea surface temperature and soil-moisture feedback in the 1998 Oklahoma–Texas drought p842
Song-You Hong and Eugenia Kalnay
doi:10.1038/35048548
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Possible presence of high-pressure ice in cold subducting slabs p844
Craig R. Bina and Alexandra Navrotsky
doi:10.1038/35048555
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Analysis of an evolutionary species–area relationship p847
Jonathan B. Losos and Dolph Schluter
doi:10.1038/35048558
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Fluorescent pigments in corals are photoprotective p850
Anya Salih, Anthony Larkum, Guy Cox, Michael Kühl and Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
doi:10.1038/35048564
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Conservation and elaboration of Hox gene regulation during evolution of the vertebrate head p854
Miguel Manzanares, Hiroshi Wada, Nobue Itasaki, Paul A. Trainor, Robb Krumlauf and Peter W. H. Holland
doi:10.1038/35048570
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See also: News and Views by Finnerty
Performance monitoring by the supplementary eye field p857
Veit Stuphorn, Tracy L. Taylor and Jeffrey D. Schall
doi:10.1038/35048576
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High constitutive activity of native H3 receptors regulates histamine neurons in brain p860
Séverine Morisset, Agnès Rouleau, Xavier Ligneau, Florence Gbahou, Joël Tardivel-Lacombe, Holger Stark, Walter Schunack, C. Robin Ganellin and Jean-Michel Arrang
doi:10.1038/35048583
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Attenuation of FGF signalling in mouse 
-cells leads to diabetes p864
Alan W. Hart, Nathalie Baeza, Åsa Apelqvist and Helena Edlund
doi:10.1038/35048589
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Phosphoglycerate kinase acts in tumour angiogenesis as a disulphide reductase p869
Angelina J. Lay, Xing-Mai Jiang, Oliver Kisker, Evelyn Flynn, Anne Underwood, Rosemary Condron and Philip J. Hogg
doi:10.1038/35048596
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Rapid exchange of histone H1.1 on chromatin in living human cells p873
Melody A. Lever, John P. H. Th'ng, Xuejun Sun and Michael J. Hendzel
doi:10.1038/35048603
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Dynamic binding of histone H1 to chromatin in living cells p877
Tom Misteli, Akash Gunjan, Robert Hock, Michael Bustin and David T. Brown
doi:10.1038/35048610
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Metal-ion coordination by U6 small nuclear RNA contributes to catalysis in the spliceosome p881
Shyue-Lee Yean, Gerald Wuenschell, John Termini and Ren-Jang Lin
doi:10.1038/35048617
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (185K)
See also: News and Views by Nilsen