Table of contents
Volume 421 Number 6919 pp97-194
Opinion
Malaria after the genome p97
Following the publication of the malaria parasite's genome sequence and the beginnings of relevant proteomics, research tools are now available that could make a big difference in the long-term war against malaria.
doi:10.1038/421097a
News
Los Alamos directors resign after row over sacked whistleblowers p99
Geoff Brumfiel
doi:10.1038/421099a
Insurers left reeling by disaster year p99
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/421099b
US societies unite in plea for boost to research budgets p100
Geoff Brumfiel
doi:10.1038/421100a
British chemists warned of impending stagnation p100
David Adam
doi:10.1038/421100b
China plans clean sweep on dust storms p101
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/421101a
Indian prime minister pledges to revamp science p101
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/421101b
NSF urged to take multidisciplinary tack on environment p102
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/421102a
Biologists seek blueprint for international stem-cell effort p102
Erika Check
doi:10.1038/421102b
Comet mission hangs in the balance p102
David Adam and Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/421102c
news feature
Bioterrorism: Agriculture shock p106
Fears about terrorism usually centre on nuclear or biological weapons. But attackers could cause huge economic damage by spreading plant or animal diseases. Virginia Gewin asks how this threat is being confronted.
Virginia Gewin
doi:10.1038/421106a
Climate change: The oresmen p109
Some US organizations claim that fertilizing the oceans with iron could both help to tackle climate change, and make money. But marine researchers warn of unpredictable side effects. Quirin Schiermeier reports.
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/421109a
Correspondence
Funding should recognize the value of peer review p111
This service to science is threatened by time constraints and performance assessment.
Marek H. Dominiczak
doi:10.1038/421111a
Biology can be helpful to open-minded physicists p111
Guangpu Li
doi:10.1038/421111b
Strict guidelines make it clear who's responsible p111
Myriam P. Sarachik
doi:10.1038/421111c
Book Reviews
When biodiversity meets humanity p113
Conservation may require political change to trust those who use the land.
Brian Child reviews Biodiversity, Sustainability and Human Communities: Protecting Beyond the Protected
doi:10.1038/421113a
Aliens unlimited p114
Lawrence M. Krauss reviews Evolving the Alien: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life by Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart
doi:10.1038/421114a
A molecular view of the cell p115
Joe Howard reviews Cell Biology by T. Pollard and W. Earnshaw
doi:10.1038/421115a
News and Views
Planetary science: Model for magnetic mystery p119
Today, the Moon has no magnetic field, but analyses of lunar rocks suggest that it did in the past. Did changes in the lunar interior create a magnetic dynamo billions of years ago?
Maria T. Zuber
doi:10.1038/421119a
Developmental biology: A larval revelation p120
Identification of the previously unknown larval forms of the sea lilies, a group of marine invertebrates, is a refreshing reminder of the value of descriptive science in evolutionary studies.
Thurston Lacalli
doi:10.1038/421120a
Global change: Leads, lags and the tropics p121
A method that circumvents the problems of correlating different data sets has allowed the sequence of events at the last great deglaciation to be seen in finer detail.
Robert B. Dunbar
doi:10.1038/421121a
Molecular systematics: Counting angels with DNA p122
It is impossible to describe biological diversity with traditional approaches. Molecular methods are the way forward — especially, perhaps, in the form of DNA barcodes.
Mark Blaxter
doi:10.1038/421122a
100 and 50 years ago p123
doi:10.1038/421123a
Materials science: Bursting apart p124
When a low-viscosity fluid is injected into an elastic material, it forces its way through by making slender cracks, in a random, fractal pattern. The spreading of the cracks can be modelled through a series of 'bursts'.
Leo P. Kadanoff
doi:10.1038/421124a
Physiology: Cost-free longevity in mice? p125
Studies of worms have revealed hundreds of proteins that, when mutated, extend lifespan. Can this work tell us anything about mammalian ageing? A look at the effects of one such protein on lab mice suggests that it can.
Gordon J. Lithgow and Matthew S. Gill
doi:10.1038/421125a
Brief Communications
Atomic-force microscopy: Rhodopsin dimers in native disc membranes p127
Neat rows of paired photon receptors are caught on camera in their natural state.
Dimitrios Fotiadis, Yan Liang, Slawomir Filipek, David A. Saperstein, Andreas Engel and Krzysztof Palczewski
doi:10.1038/421127a
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Coulomb fission: Rayleigh jets from levitated microdroplets p128
Denis Duft, Tobias Achtzehn, Rene Müller, Bernd A. Huber and Thomas Leisner
doi:10.1038/421128a
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Econophysics: Master curve for price-impact function p129
Fabrizio Lillo, J. Doyne Farmer and Rosario N. Mantegna
doi:10.1038/421129a
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Econophysics: Two-phase behaviour of financial markets p130
Vasiliki Plerou, Parameswaran Gopikrishnan and H. Eugene Stanley
doi:10.1038/421130a
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Articles
Continuing emissions of methyl chloroform from Europe p131
M. C. Krol, J. Lelieveld, D. E. Oram, G. A. Sturrock, S. A. Penkett, C. A. M. Brenninkmeijer, V. Gros, J. Williams and H. A. Scheeren
doi:10.1038/nature01311
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Modelling vaccination strategies against foot-and-mouth disease p136
M. J. Keeling, M. E. J. Woolhouse, R. M. May, G. Davies and B. T. Grenfell
doi:10.1038/nature01343
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Letters to Nature
An early lunar core dynamo driven by thermochemical mantle convection p143
Dave R. Stegman, A. Mark Jellinek, Stephen A. Zatman, John R. Baumgardner and Mark A. Richards
doi:10.1038/nature01267
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See also: News and Views by Zuber
Measuring intense rotation and dissipation in turbulent flows p146
Benjamin W. Zeff, Daniel D. Lanterman, Ryan McAllister, Rajarshi Roy, Eric J. Kostelich and Daniel P. Lathrop
doi:10.1038/nature01334
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Observation of surface and bulk phase transitions in nematic liquid crystals p149
M. I. Boamfa, M. W. Kim, J. C. Maan and Th. Rasing
doi:10.1038/nature01331
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Magnitude and timing of temperature change in the Indo-Pacific warm pool during deglaciation p152
Katherine Visser, Robert Thunell and Lowell Stott
doi:10.1038/nature01297
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See also: News and Views by Dunbar
Group decision-making in animals p155
L. Conradt and T. J. Roper
doi:10.1038/nature01294
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Larval stages of a living sea lily (stalked crinoid echinoderm) p158
Hiroaki Nakano, Taku Hibino, Tatsuo Oji, Yuko Hara and Shonan Amemiya
doi:10.1038/nature01236
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See also: News and Views by Lacalli
Robust judgement of inter-object distance by an arthropod p160
Jan M. Hemmi and Jochen Zeil
doi:10.1038/nature01247
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An active DNA transposon family in rice p163
Ning Jiang, Zhirong Bao, Xiaoyu Zhang, Hirohiko Hirochika, Sean R. Eddy, Susan R. McCouch and Susan R. Wessler
doi:10.1038/nature01214
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The plant MITE mPing is mobilized in anther culture p167
Kazuhiro Kikuchi, Kazuki Terauchi, Masamitsu Wada and Hiro-Yuki Hirano
doi:10.1038/nature01218
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Mobilization of a transposon in the rice genome p170
Tetsuya Nakazaki, Yutaka Okumoto, Akira Horibata, Satoshi Yamahira, Masayoshi Teraishi, Hidetaka Nishida, Hiromo Inoue and Takatoshi Tanisaka
doi:10.1038/nature01219
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Intracardiac fluid forces are an essential epigenetic factor for embryonic cardiogenesis p172
Jay R. Hove, Reinhard W. Köster, Arian S. Forouhar, Gabriel Acevedo-Bolton, Scott E. Fraser and Morteza Gharib
doi:10.1038/nature01282
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Rhythmic histone acetylation underlies transcription in the mammalian circadian clock p177
Jean-Pierre Etchegaray, Choogon Lee, Paul A. Wade and Steven M. Reppert
doi:10.1038/nature01314
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IGF-1 receptor regulates lifespan and resistance to oxidative stress in mice p182
Martin Holzenberger, Joëlle Dupont, Bertrand Ducos, Patricia Leneuve, Alain Géloën, Patrick C. Even, Pascale Cervera and Yves Le Bouc
doi:10.1038/nature01298
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See also: News and Views by Lithgow & Gill
Srb10/Cdk8 regulates yeast filamentous growth by phosphorylating the transcription factor Ste12 p187
Chris Nelson, Susan Goto, Karen Lund, Wesley Hung and Ivan Sadowski
doi:10.1038/nature01243
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erratum: Control, exploitation and tolerance of intracellular noise p190
Christopher V. Rao, Denise M. Wolf and Adam P. Arkin
doi:10.1038/nature01308
corrigendum: Altered performance of forest pests under atmospheres enriched by CO2 and O3 p190
Kevin E. Percy, Caroline S. Awmack, Richard L. Lindroth, Mark E. Kubiske, Brian J. Kopper, J. G. Isebrands, Kurt S. Pregitzer, George R. Hendrey, Richard E. Dickson, Donald R. Zak, Elina Oksanen, Jaak Sober, Richard Harrington and David F. Karnosky
doi:10.1038/nature01329
New on the Market
New ideas for biotechnology p191
This week's trend—small sample size, and lots of them.
doi:10.1038/421191a
Naturejobs
ProspectsSweet dreams... p193
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj6919-193a
POSTDOCS
Seeking strength in numbers p194
Postdocs are vital to scientific research, but often miss out on the benefits available to permanent staff. Now they are banding together to improve their situation, says Karen Kreeger.
Karen Kreeger
doi:10.1038/nj6919-194a