Table of contents
Volume 426 Number 6962 pp1-104
Editorials
Handle with care p1
Scientists are rushing to defend a colleague charged with mishandling samples of the plague bacterium. But they must be careful not to send the message that microbiologists are blasé about the need to protect public health.
doi:10.1038/426001a
Defamation, online p1
Operators of preprint archives and other scientific websites would be well advised to get up to speed on media law.
doi:10.1038/426001b
News
Satellite loss throws Japan's space programme into disarray p3
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/426003a
Disease spread leads Britain to pull plug on trial badger cull p4
Jim Giles
doi:10.1038/426004a
Florida welcomes Scripps as critics predict big-money flop p4
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/426004b
US loses allure in foreign students' eyes p5
Geoff Brumfiel
doi:10.1038/426005a
Roaming polar bears reveal Arctic role of pollutants p5
Marika Willerroider
doi:10.1038/426005b
Museum breaks mould in attempts to lure reluctant visitors p6
Jim Giles
doi:10.1038/426006a
National Academy calls for sea change in ocean efforts p6
Betsy Mason
doi:10.1038/426006b
Preprint server seeks way to halt plagiarists p7
Jim Giles
doi:10.1038/426007a
Critical comments threaten to open libel floodgate for physics archive p7
Jim Giles
doi:10.1038/426007b
News Features
Intellectual property: This protein belongs to... p10
The early days of genomics were marked by concerns that wide-ranging gene patents would restrict research and medical discovery. So far, proteomics hasn't toiled under the same cloud. But don't get complacent, warns David Cyranoski.
doi:10.1038/426010a
Marine biology: Close encounters of the jelly kind p12
Deep-diving submarines have opened a new window onto the ocean's gelatinous inhabitants. And biologists are discovering that these denizens of the deep have a few surprises in store. Carina Dennis dives in.
doi:10.1038/426012a
Correspondence
Leonardo knew the fluid boundaries of science p15
Without the aid of mathematical models, his ideas stemmed from keen observation.
Stefano E. Grillo
doi:10.1038/426015a
Open access: other ways p15
Peter Suber
doi:10.1038/426015b
Open access will deter illegal file-sharing p15
Martin Dufva
doi:10.1038/426015c
Books and Arts
The history of cool p17
A look back at pioneering studies of quantum effects at low temperatures.
Philip W. Anderson reviews Cold Wars: A History of Superconductivity by Jean Matricon and Georges Waysand
doi:10.1038/426017a
The rise and fall of populations p18
Nils Chr. Stenseth reviews Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/Empirical Synthesis by Peter Turchin
doi:10.1038/426018a
Exhibition: Force of nature p19
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/426019a
Rambling in the rain p19
Philippe Janvier reviews The Cruise of the Betsey with Rambles of a Geologist by Hugh Miller, T. C. Smout and M. A. Taylor
doi:10.1038/426019b
More on Miller p19
doi:10.1038/426019c
Lifelines
Terry L. Root: Following the thread p20
Terry L. Root is a senior fellow in the Center for Environmental Science and Policy at the Stanford Institute for International Studies. She is an ecologist who specializes in conservation biology, biogeography and ornithology.
doi:10.1038/426020a
News and Views
Planetary Science: Over the edge? p21
The two Voyager spacecraft are heading beyond the bounds of the Solar System, and Voyager 1 may now have encountered the 'edge' — the termination shock — of the solar wind. But not everyone agrees.
Len A. Fisk
doi:10.1038/426021a
Evolutionary biology: Scramble for the eggs p22
Copulating cockerels can, it seems, tailor their ejaculate to several factors: the degree of male competition, whether they have mated with the female before, and the female's reproductive 'value'.
Matthew J. G. Gage
doi:10.1038/426022a
Microbiology: Destructive approach p23
Amanda Tromans
doi:10.1038/426023a
Femtophysics: Birth of a quasiparticle p23
As electronic devices shrink, the interaction between electrons and the silicon crystal lattice, described in terms of 'quasiparticles', is a central issue. Ultrashort laser pulses can track the birth of such a quasiparticle.
Alfred Leitenstorfer
doi:10.1038/426023b
Neurobiology: Signals that make waves p25
Neurons in the brain release proteins called neurotrophins, which bind to glial cells and unleash a wave of calcium ions inside them. This could be the missing link in a communication circuit between glia and neurons.
Louis F. Reichardt
doi:10.1038/426025a
100 and 50 years ago p25
doi:10.1038/426025b
Ecology: Palms in motion p26
Being eaten alive then dumped with the resulting droppings can be all to the good — if you are a palm fruit in the Amazonian tropical forest, that is, and the consumer is a large mammal.
Peter D. Moore
doi:10.1038/426026a
Cell biology: Enlightened messages p27
Clare Thomas
doi:10.1038/426027a
Editorial note p27
doi:10.1038/426027b
News and views in brief p28
doi:10.1038/426028a
Brief Communications
Wetlands: Crop freezes and land-use change in Florida p29
Draining the state's southern wetlands may have raised the incidence of harmful frosts.
Curtis H. Marshall, Roger A. Pielke, Sr and Louis T. Steyaert
doi:10.1038/426029a
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Arachnology: Scavenging by brown recluse spiders p30
Jamel S. Sandidge
doi:10.1038/426030a
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Biophysics (communication arising): Is rhodopsin dimeric in native retinal rods? p30
Marc Chabre, Richard Cone and Helen Saibil
doi:10.1038/426030b
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Biophysics (communication arising): Is rhodopsin dimeric in native retinal rods? p31
Dimitrios Fotiadis, Yan Liang, Slawomir Filipek, David A. Saperstein, Andreas Engel and Krzysztof Palczewski
doi:10.1038/426031a
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Global carbon cycle (communication arising): Metabolic balance of the open sea p32
David M. Karl, Edward A. Laws, Paul Morris, Peter J. leB. Williams and Steven Emerson
doi:10.1038/426032a
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Review
The immune response of Drosophila p33
Jules A. Hoffmann
doi:10.1038/nature02021
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Article
Structure of mitochondrial ADP/ATP carrier in complex with carboxyatractyloside p39
Eva Pebay-Peyroula, Cécile Dahout-Gonzalez, Richard Kahn, Véronique Trézéguet, Guy J.-M. Lauquin and Gérard Brandolin
doi:10.1038/nature02056
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Letters to Nature
Voyager 1 exited the solar wind at a distance of 
85 au from the Sun p45
S. M. Krimigis, R. B. Decker, M. E. Hill, T. P. Armstrong, G. Gloeckler, D. C. Hamilton, L. J. Lanzerotti and E. C. Roelof
doi:10.1038/nature02068
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See also: News and Views by Fisk
Enhancements of energetic particles near the heliospheric termination shock p48
Frank B. McDonald, Edward C. Stone, Alan C. Cummings, Bryant Heikkila, Nand Lal and William R. Webber
doi:10.1038/nature02066
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See also: News and Views by Fisk
The birth of a quasiparticle in silicon observed in time–frequency space p51
Muneaki Hase, Masahiro Kitajima, Anca Monia Constantinescu and Hrvoje Petek
doi:10.1038/nature02044
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See also: News and Views by Leitenstorfer
Magnetic control of ferroelectric polarization p55
T. Kimura, T. Goto, H. Shintani, K. Ishizaka, T. Arima and Y. Tokura
doi:10.1038/nature02018
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Self-assembly in aqueous solution of wheel-shaped Mo154 oxide clusters into vesicles p59
Tianbo Liu, Ekkehard Diemann, Huilin Li, Andreas W. M. Dress and Achim Müller
doi:10.1038/nature02036
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Interaction of sea water and lava during submarine eruptions at mid-ocean ridges p62
Michael R. Perfit, Johnson R. Cann, Daniel J. Fornari, Jennifer Engels, Deborah K. Smith, W. Ian Ridley and Margo H. Edwards
doi:10.1038/nature02032
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Sulphide mining by the superextensile foot of symbiotic thyasirid bivalves p65
Suzanne C. Dufour and Horst Felbeck
doi:10.1038/nature02095
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Governance and the loss of biodiversity p67
R. J. Smith, R. D. J. Muir, M. J. Walpole, A. Balmford and N. Leader-Williams
doi:10.1038/nature02025
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Sophisticated sperm allocation in male fowl p70
Tommaso Pizzari, Charles K. Cornwallis, Hanne Løvlie, Sven Jakobsson and Tim R. Birkhead
doi:10.1038/nature02004
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See also: News and Views by Gage
Truncated TrkB-T1 mediates neurotrophin-evoked calcium signalling in glia cells p74
Christine R. Rose, Robert Blum, Bruno Pichler, Alexandra Lepier, Karl W. Kafitz and Arthur Konnerth
doi:10.1038/nature01983
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See also: News and Views by Reichardt
Methylation at lysine 4 of histone H3 in ecdysone-dependent development of Drosophila p78
Yurii Sedkov, Elizabeth Cho, Svetlana Petruk, Lucy Cherbas, Sheryl T. Smith, Richard S. Jones, Peter Cherbas, Eli Canaani, James B. Jaynes and Alexander Mazo
doi:10.1038/nature02080
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Hedgehog signalling in the mouse requires intraflagellar transport proteins p83
Danwei Huangfu, Aimin Liu, Andrew S. Rakeman, Noel S. Murcia, Lee Niswander and Kathryn V. Anderson
doi:10.1038/nature02061
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Degradation of Cdc25A by 
-TrCP during S phase and in response to DNA damage p87
Luca Busino, Maddalena Donzelli, Massimo Chiesa, Daniele Guardavaccaro, Dvora Ganoth, N. Valerio Dorrello, Avram Hershko, Michele Pagano and Giulio F. Draetta
doi:10.1038/nature02082
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Structural adaptability in the ligand-binding pocket of the ecdysone hormone receptor p91
Isabelle M. L. Billas, Thomas Iwema, Jean-Marie Garnier, André Mitschler, Natacha Rochel and Dino Moras
doi:10.1038/nature02112
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Crystal structure of a zinc-finger–RNA complex reveals two modes of molecular recognition p96
Duo Lu, M. Alexandra Searles and Aaron Klug
doi:10.1038/nature02088
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Addendum: An expressed pseudogene regulates the messenger-RNA stability of its homologous coding gene p100
Shinji Hirotsune, Noriyuki Yoshida, Amy Chen, Lisa Garrett, Fumihiro Sugiyama, Satoru Takahashi, Ken-ichi Yagami, Anthony Wynshaw-Boris and Atsushi Yoshiki
doi:10.1038/nature02094
Retraction: Hes1 is a target of microRNA-23 during retinoic-acid-induced neuronal differentiation of NT2 cells p100
Hiroaki Kawasaki and Kazunari Taira
doi:10.1038/nature02141
Naturejobs
ProspectsTrust me, I'm a doctor p101
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj6962-101a
POSTDOCS
A winning proposal p102
Young, aspiring researchers often have to learn the hard way when it comes to writing a killer grant application. But a range of European initiatives aims to give them a helping hand. Karen Kreeger reports.
Karen Kreeger
doi:10.1038/nj6962-102a
Career View
Young Scientist: Paying the rent p104
doi:10.1038/nj6962-104a
Nuts & Bolts p104
Deb Koen
doi:10.1038/nj6962-104b
Movers p104
doi:10.1038/nj6962-104c