Table of contents
Volume 415 Number 6873 pp3-818
Naturejobs
ProspectsPutting pathogens first p3
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj6873-03a
regions
Canada: Drawing back the talent p4
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/nj6873-04a
Opinion
Dangers of going underground p717
Precautions need to be taken to protect researchers threatened by violent pressure groups. But open access to information and public accountability need to be sustained in the face of determined anti-rationality.
doi:10.1038/415717a
A boost too far? p717
Care will be needed over the proposed expansion of US bioterrorism research, lest the cure prove worse than the disease.
doi:10.1038/415717b
News
Biodefence boost leaves experts worried over laboratory safety p719
Jonathan Knight
doi:10.1038/415719a
American Red Cross turns its back on stem-cell grant p719
Jonathan Knight
doi:10.1038/415719b
Physicist's letters reveal clues to bitter wartime rift p720
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/415720a
Rockefeller head quits as scandal looms p721
Erika Check
doi:10.1038/415721a
Soros offers open access to science papers p721
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/415721b
Cloning agenda 'skewed' by media frenzy p722
Erika Check
doi:10.1038/415722a
Share crash puts focus on accounts p722
Erika Check
doi:10.1038/415722b
Anger at US plan to drop physics experiment p723
Geoff Brumfiel
doi:10.1038/415723a
Researchers fear web information will prompt attacks p723
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/415723b
news feature
Citation analysis: The counting house p726
Scientists' work is often evaluated using citation statistics compiled by a company called the ISI. But how useful and reliable are the data? David Adam gets the measure of citation analysis.
David Adam
doi:10.1038/415726a
European Space Agency: Tightening the purse strings p730
Science budgets are being trimmed at the European Space Agency. Sally Goodman talks to David Southwood, the man charged with deciding how the money should be saved.
Sally Goodman
doi:10.1038/415730a
Correspondence
The impact-factors debate: the ISI's uses and limits p731
Towards a critical, informative, accurate and policy-relevant bibliometrics.
Henk F. Moed
doi:10.1038/415731a
Statistics hide impact of non-English journals p732
Shengli Ren, Guang'an Zu and Hong-fei Wang
doi:10.1038/415732a
Strange results mean it's worth checking ISI data p732
Kathleen D. Hopkins, Laragh Gollogly, Sarah Ogden and Richard Horton
doi:10.1038/415732b
Habilitation not just alive in France, but growing p732
Matthew Cobb
doi:10.1038/415732c
Getting space camera back on track soon p732
Franklin O'Donnell
doi:10.1038/415732d
Commentary
Narrow horizons in astrobiology p733
Mission planners must realize that astrobiology is more than a search for life.
doi:10.1038/415733a
Book Reviews
Carry a big stick p735
A unique figure of the twentieth century gives his version of the facts.
John T. Finn reviews Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics by Edward Teller and Judith Shoolery
doi:10.1038/415735a
A toast to the genome p736
Carina Dennis reviews Life Script: How the Human Genome Discoveries Will Transform Medicine and Enhance Your Health by Nicholas Wade
doi:10.1038/415736a
Keeping in sync p736
William Ditto reviews Synchronization: A Universal Concept in Nonlinear Sciences by Arkady Pikovsky, Michael Rosenblum and Jürgen Kurths
doi:10.1038/415736b
Visual virtuosity p737
doi:10.1038/415737a
Words of climatic wisdom p737
Heike Langenberg reviews The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Environmental Change
doi:10.1038/415737b
Science in culture p738
Martin Kemp reviews
doi:10.1038/415738a
words
Innateness p739
Reconciling 'instinct' with biological reality may require a recasting of evolutionary metaphors.
Barbara C. Scholz
doi:10.1038/415739a
enNews and Views
Materials science: Beyond the kitchen sink p743
If you look closely, stainless steel is not actually 'stainless' — it does corrode. Corrosion is known to develop near sulphide impurities in the metal, but not, it seems, in the way we once thought.
Roger C. Newman
doi:10.1038/415743a
Biogeography: A case of dispersing chameleons p744
Chameleon species are widely distributed and provide a test for some basic principles of biogeography. The latest analysis supports the idea that they have dispersed from Madagascar on several occasions.
Olivier Rieppel
doi:10.1038/415744a
Earth science: Flow and fabric deep down p745
Conditions in Earth's mantle can be inferred from seismic-wave velocities which reveal areas of anisotropy. Evidence emerges of such an area at mid-mantle level, associated with a subducting tectonic plate.
Karen M. Fischer
doi:10.1038/415745a
100 and 50 years ago p747
doi:10.1038/415747a
Developmental biology: Precision patterning p748
Many developmental events depend on gradients of key molecules to tell cells where they are. These gradients vary between embryos, but a noise-filtering mechanism ensures that development proceeds normally.
Nipam H. Patel and Sabbi Lall
doi:10.1038/415748a
Animal behaviour: Snap judgements p748
Tim Lincoln
doi:10.1038/415748b
Daedalus: Fresh flavours p749
David Jones
doi:10.1038/415749a
News and Views Feature
Stem cells that make stems p751
Plant stem cells, contained in specialized structures called meristems, have amazing regenerative powers. They enable plants to grow and produce new organs throughout lifetimes that can span hundreds of years.
Detlef Weigel and Gerd Jürgens
doi:10.1038/415751a
Brief Communications
Developmental psychology: Rational imitation in preverbal infants p755
Babies may opt for a simpler way to turn on a light after watching an adult do it.
György Gergely, Harold Bekkering and Ildikó Király
doi:10.1038/415755a
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Evolutionary biology: Performance constraints in decathletes p755
Raoul Van Damme, Robbie S. Wilson, Bieke Vanhooydonck and Peter Aerts
doi:10.1038/415755b
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Review
The emerging conceptual framework of evolutionary developmental biology p757
Wallace Arthur
doi:10.1038/415757a
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (203K)
Letters to Nature
Crossover between classical and quantum shot noise in chaotic cavities p765
S. Oberholzer, E. V. Sukhorukov and C. Schönenberger
doi:10.1038/415765a
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Observation of stimulated emission by direct three-photon excitation p767
Guang S. He, Przemyslaw P. Markowicz, Tzu-Chau Lin and Paras N. Prasad
doi:10.1038/415767a
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Why stainless steel corrodes p770
Mary P. Ryan, David E. Williams, Richard J. Chater, Bernie M. Hutton and David S. McPhail
doi:10.1038/415770a
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (245K)
See also: News and Views by Newman
Poleward heat transport by the atmospheric heat engine p774
Leon Barry, George C. Craig and John Thuburn
doi:10.1038/415774a
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Mid-mantle deformation inferred from seismic anisotropy p777
James Wookey, J.-Michael Kendall and Guilhem Barruol
doi:10.1038/415777a
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (214K) | Supplementary information
See also: News and Views by Fischer
A basal troodontid from the Early Cretaceous of China p780
Xing Xu, Mark A. Norell, Xiao-lin Wang, Peter J. Makovicky and Xiao-chun Wu
doi:10.1038/415780a
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (292K) | Supplementary information
Chameleon radiation by oceanic dispersal p784
C. J. Raxworthy, M. R. J. Forstner and R. A. Nussbaum
doi:10.1038/415784a
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (146K) | Supplementary information
See also: News and Views by Rieppel
Antagonistic coevolution between the sexes in a group of insects p787
Göran Arnqvist and Locke Rowe
doi:10.1038/415787a
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (112K) | Supplementary information
Context-enabled learning in the human visual system p790
Yael Adini, Dov Sagi and Misha Tsodyks
doi:10.1038/415790a
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Excitatory glycine receptors containing the NR3 family of NMDA receptor subunits p793
Jon E. Chatterton, Marc Awobuluyi, Louis S. Premkumar, Hiroto Takahashi, Maria Talantova, Yeonsook Shin, Jiankun Cui, Shichun Tu, Kevin A. Sevarino, Nobuki Nakanishi, Gang Tong, Stuart A. Lipton and Dongxian Zhang
doi:10.1038/nature715
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (452K) | Supplementary information
Establishment of developmental precision and proportions in the early Drosophila embryo p798
Bahram Houchmandzadeh, Eric Wieschaus and Stanislas Leibler
doi:10.1038/415798a
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (598K)
See also: News and Views by Patel & Lall
Activation-induced cytidine deaminase turns on somatic hypermutation in hybridomas p802
Alberto Martin, Philip D. Bardwell, Caroline J. Woo, Manxia Fan, Marc J. Shulman and Matthew D. Scharff
doi:10.1038/nature714
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Lateral relocation of auxin efflux regulator PIN3 mediates tropism in Arabidopsis p806
Ji
í Friml,
Justyna Wi
niewska,
Eva Benková,
Kurt Mendgen
and
Klaus Palme
doi:10.1038/415806a
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (432K)
The non-coding Air RNA is required for silencing autosomal imprinted genes p810
Frank Sleutels, Ronald Zwart and Denise P. Barlow
doi:10.1038/415810a
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Structural basis for antagonist-mediated recruitment of nuclear co-repressors by PPAR
p813
H. Eric Xu, Thomas B. Stanley, Valerie G. Montana, Millard H. Lambert, Barry G. Shearer, Jeffery E. Cobb, David D. McKee, Cristin M. Galardi, Kelli D. Plunket, Robert T. Nolte, Derek J. Parks, John T. Moore, Steven A. Kliewer, Timothy M. Willson and Julie B. Stimmel
doi:10.1038/415813a
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correction: Autonomic healing of polymer composites p817
S. R. White, N. R. Sottos, P. H. Geubelle, J. S. Moore, M. R. Kessler, S. R. Sriram, E. N. Brown and S. Viswanathan
doi:10.1038/415817a
New on the Market
Turning the heat on PCR p818
Thermocycling and PCR are the themes this week.
doi:10.1038/415818a
