Table of contents
Volume 425 Number 6959 pp645-747
Editorial
Coping with peer rejection p645
Accounts of rejected Nobel-winning discoveries highlight the conservatism in science. Despite their historical misjudgements, journal editors can help, but above all, visionaries will need sheer persistence.
doi:10.1038/425645a
News
Health chiefs poised to step up US scrutiny of microbe research p647
Erika Check
doi:10.1038/425647a
Routine tests reveal unknown strains of BSE prions p648
Marika Willerroider
doi:10.1038/425648a
Physician launches public protest over medical Nobel p648
Helen Pearson
doi:10.1038/425648b
Earthquake makes waves for tsunami models p649
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/425649a
Bleak forecast for space weather p649
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/425649b
Congress split over funding for 'safe' nuclear reactor p650
Geoff Brumfiel
doi:10.1038/425650a
Letters reveal scale of German agency's Nazi corruption p650
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/425650b
Channel hoppers land chemistry Nobel p651
Jim Giles
doi:10.1038/425651a
Economics prize for duo who resolved random results p651
Philip Ball
doi:10.1038/425651b
News Features
Time to choose p655
In some countries, transgenic plants are already a part of mainstream farming. Will the rest of the world soon follow suit?
doi:10.1038/425655a
Damned if they do, damned if they don't... p656
It's crunch time for agribiotech in Britain, as politicians rule on the planting of commercial transgenic crops. The world is watching, says Jim Giles.
doi:10.1038/425656a
GM world view p658
Today, just four countries account for 99% of the world's commercially grown transgenic crops. But that is all changing: policies are being thrashed out, laws drawn up and seeds sown. We present an interactive graphic showing how GM is taking root.
doi:10.1038/425658a
Correspondence
Effective protection may alter the look of Venice p661
Those seeking to rescue Venice are caught between the devil and the deep-blue sea.
Jean-Daniel Stanley
doi:10.1038/425661a
How do impact factors relate to the real world? p661
Piotr Skórka
doi:10.1038/425661b
Pointless suffering of animals can be avoided p661
Neal D. Barnard
doi:10.1038/425661c
JET at risk if Europe can not afford to pay for ITER p661
A. M. Bradshaw
doi:10.1038/425661d
Books and Arts
Science exiled p663
How the complexities of science suffer in the arena of public policy.
Paul M. Grant reviews Politicizing Science: The Alchemy of Policymaking
doi:10.1038/425663a
Smashed into orbit p664
Joseph A. Burns reviews The Big Splat, or How Our Moon Came to Be by Dana Mackenzie
doi:10.1038/425664a
In retrospect p665
Paul N. Pearson reviews An Investigation of the Principles of Knowledge and of the Progress of Reason, from Sense to Science and Philosophy by James Hutton
doi:10.1038/425665a
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News and Views
Biogeography: The coelacanth of frogs p669
A frog that lives in the mountains of southern India is a rare breed indeed: it is a new species that merits the establishment of a new family. Moreover, this is a discovery with considerable biogeographical significance.
S. Blair Hedges
doi:10.1038/425669a
Earthquakes: Good tidings p670
Tidal stresses in the Earth's crust don't seem to influence earthquakes. Water wells, on the other hand, seem strangely sensitive to seismic activity. Explanations are now proposed.
Christopher H. Scholz
doi:10.1038/425670a
Proteomics: Where's Waldo in yeast? p671
Research in yeast provides the tools and benchmarks for a wide sweep of biology. The latest results reveal the most complete picture yet of the levels and locations of protein production in the organism.
James A. Wohlschlegel and John R. Yates
doi:10.1038/425671a
Solar physics: Heat exposure p672
The outermost layers of the Sun are hotter than expected. Observation and analysis now confirm that magnetic fields are involved in the heating process, and also signal the existence of a long-sought 'current sheet'.
Robert Rosner
doi:10.1038/425672a
Prion diseases: A nucleic-acid accomplice? p673
Prion proteins that trigger a cascade of protein misfolding in the brain are suspected of being the sole transmissible cause of some brain-destroying diseases. But nucleic acids could be their partner in crime.
Byron Caughey and David A. Kocisko
doi:10.1038/425673a
Materials science: Zero-expansion plan p674
Some materials don't expand or contract as they are heated. A new example is a metallic compound, for which the movement of electrons between atoms is the likely explanation for its 'zero thermal expansion'.
Arthur Sleight
doi:10.1038/425674a
100 and 50 years ago p676
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Evolution: Opportunity versus innovation p676
Why have some evolutionary lineages produced many more species than others? As far as one large group of birds is concerned, being in the right place at the right time is a plausible answer.
Paul H. Harvey and Andy Purvis
doi:10.1038/425676b
Astronomy: Faking it p677
Alison Wright
doi:10.1038/425677a
News and views in brief p678
doi:10.1038/425678a
Brief Communications
Evolution: Single-gene speciation by left–right reversal p679
A land-snail species of polyphyletic origin results from chirality constraints on mating.
Rei Ueshima and Takahiro Asami
doi:10.1038/425679a
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Kinetics: Gaussian statistics in granular gases p680
G. W. Baxter and J. S. Olafsen
doi:10.1038/425680a
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Corrigendum p680
doi:10.1038/425680b
Review
Planning for smallpox outbreaks p681
Neil M. Ferguson, Matt J. Keeling, W. John Edmunds, Raymond Gani, Bryan T. Grenfell, Roy M. Anderson and Steve Leach
doi:10.1038/nature02007
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Article
Global analysis of protein localization in budding yeast p686
Won-Ki Huh, James V. Falvo, Luke C. Gerke, Adam S. Carroll, Russell W. Howson, Jonathan S. Weissman and Erin K. O'Shea
doi:10.1038/nature02026
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See also: News and Views by Wohlschlegel & Yates
Letters to Nature
Three-dimensional magnetic field topology in a region of solar coronal heating p692
S. K. Solanki, A. Lagg, J. Woch, N. Krupp and M. Collados
doi:10.1038/nature02035
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The speed of information in a 'fast-light' optical medium p695
Michael D. Stenner, Daniel J. Gauthier and Mark A. Neifeld
doi:10.1038/nature02016
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Single-electron transistor of a single organic molecule with access to several redox states p698
Sergey Kubatkin, Andrey Danilov, Mattias Hjort, Jérôme Cornil, Jean-Luc Brédas, Nicolai Stuhr-Hansen, Per Hedegård and Thomas Bjørnholm
doi:10.1038/nature02010
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Zero thermal expansion in YbGaGe due to an electronic valence transition p702
James R. Salvador, Fu Guo, Tim Hogan and Mercouri G. Kanatzidis
doi:10.1038/nature02011
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See also: News and Views by Sleight
Reduction of soil carbon formation by tropospheric ozone under increased carbon dioxide levels p705
Wendy M. Loya, Kurt S. Pregitzer, Noah J. Karberg, John S. King and Christian P. Giardina
doi:10.1038/nature02047
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Flying and swimming animals cruise at a Strouhal number tuned for high power efficiency p707
Graham K. Taylor, Robert L. Nudds and Adrian L. R. Thomas
doi:10.1038/nature02000
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New frog family from India reveals an ancient biogeographical link with the Seychelles p711
S. D. Biju and Franky Bossuyt
doi:10.1038/nature02019
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See also: News and Views by Hedges
Females increase offspring heterozygosity and fitness through extra-pair matings p714
Katharina Foerster, Kaspar Delhey, Arild Johnsen, Jan T. Lifjeld and Bart Kempenaers
doi:10.1038/nature01969
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RNA molecules stimulate prion protein conversion p717
Nathan R. Deleault, Ralf W. Lucassen and Surachai Supattapone
doi:10.1038/nature01979
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Loss of Omi mitochondrial protease activity causes the neuromuscular disorder of mnd2 mutant mice p721
Julie M. Jones, Pinaki Datta, Srinivasa M. Srinivasula, Weizhen Ji, Sanjeev Gupta, ZhiJia Zhang, Erika Davies, György Hajnóczky, Thomas L. Saunders, Margaret L. Van Keuren, Teresa Fernandes-Alnemri, Miriam H. Meisler and Emad S. Alnemri
doi:10.1038/nature02052
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Functional cloning of TUG as a regulator of GLUT4 glucose transporter trafficking p727
Jonathan S. Bogan, Natalie Hendon, Adrienne E. McKee, Tsu-Shuen Tsao and Harvey F. Lodish
doi:10.1038/nature01989
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The tobacco aquaporin NtAQP1 is a membrane CO2 pore with physiological functions p734
Norbert Uehlein, Claudio Lovisolo, Franka Siefritz and Ralf Kaldenhoff
doi:10.1038/nature02027
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Global analysis of protein expression in yeast p737
Sina Ghaemmaghami, Won-Ki Huh, Kiowa Bower, Russell W. Howson, Archana Belle, Noah Dephoure, Erin K. O'Shea and Jonathan S. Weissman
doi:10.1038/nature02046
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See also: News and Views by Wohlschlegel & Yates
Corrigendum: Invariant scaling relations across tree-dominated communities p741
Brian J. Enquist and Karl J. Niklas
doi:10.1038/nature02023
New on the Market
Tails of discovery p743
A mouse model, high-throughput assays and more for drug research.
doi:10.1038/425743a
Naturejobs
ProspectsIt could be worse... p745
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj6959-745a
REGIONS
Singapore: Filling Biopolis p746
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj6959-746a
