Badger behaviour complicates attempts to control TB in cattle.
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Volume 439 Number 7078 ppxi-890
In this issue (16 February 2006)
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Authors
Making the paper: Christl Donnelly pxi
Abstractions pxi
doi:10.1038/7078xib
Quantified: Portugal pxi
doi:10.1038/7078xic
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Editorials
Think global p763
'Virtual globe' software is transforming our ability to visualize and hypothesize in three dimensions. Educators take note.
doi:10.1038/439763a
It's academic p763
The development of scientific academies could help to put science to work in Africa.
doi:10.1038/439763a
NASA in reverse p764
The US space agency's relationship with scientists is hitting a new low.
doi:10.1038/439764a
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News
US space scientists rage over axed projects p768
Critics say proposed cuts will devastate the field.
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/439768a
Disgraced cloner's ally is cleared of misconduct p768
But Hwang's US collaborator is chided for 'research misbehaviour'.
Emma Marrisand Erika Check
doi:10.1038/439768b
Biomedicine to sell itself as a local hero p769
Lobbyists plan to push the economic benefits of medical research.
Erika Check
doi:10.1038/439769a
Prestige is factored into journal ratings p770
'Y-factor' measures quality as well as quantity of citations.
Philip Ball
doi:10.1038/439770a
Plans to pare down climate centre anger UK ecologists p770
British response to global warming will be impaired, say critics.
Jim Giles
doi:10.1038/439770b
Doubts hang over source of bird flu spread p772
How did H5N1 spread to Africa and the European Union?
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/439772a
Thai dogs carry bird-flu virus, but will they spread it? p773
Antibodies to H5N1 found in village dogs and cats.
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/439773a
Sidelines p773
doi:10.1038/439773b
Calls to conserve biodiversity hotspots p774
Indonesia's 'lost world' could be under threat from poachers.
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/439774a
News in brief p775
doi:10.1038/439775a
Correction p775
doi:10.1038/439775b
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News Features
Virtual globes: The web-wide world p776
Life happens in three dimensions, so why doesn't science? Declan Butler discovers that online tools, led by the Google Earth virtual globe, are changing the way we interact with spatial data.
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/439776a
Medical research: Them and us no longer p779
Scientists and medical doctors view research through different lenses — but the gulf in outlook between the two tribes isn't what it used to be. Meredith Wadman reports.
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/439779a
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Business
Across China's frontier p781
China has become the preferred place for international firms to open research labs — and Japan is leading the way, reports Ichiko Fuyuno.
doi:10.1038/439781a
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Correspondence
Why negatives should be viewed as positives p782
A simple system of checks and balances to cut fraud p782
Xiangzhong Yang, K. Eggan, G. Seidel, Jr, R. Jaenischand D. Melton
doi:10.1038/439782b
Peer review could be improved by market forces p782
Bureaucracy won't change the character of a cheat p782
Pressure also leads to worthless publications p784
It's difficult to publish contradictory findings p784
Data audit would reduce unethical behaviour p784
Discourse among referees and editors would help p784
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Commentary
Mapping disaster zones p787
Google Earth software proved effective during relief efforts in New Orleans and Pakistan, say Illah Nourbakhsh and colleagues. Is there more to be gained than lost from opening up disaster operations to the wider public?
Illah Nourbakhsh, Randy Sargent, Anne Wright, Kathryn Cramer, Brian McClendonand Michael Jones
doi:10.1038/439787a
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Books and Arts
Enough is enough p789
Economic growth should be viewed as a means to an end, not an end in itself.
doi:10.1038/439789a
Super science p790
doi:10.1038/439790a
Incomplete mathematics p790
doi:10.1038/439790b
Exhibition: Classifying the past p791
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News and Views
全球的気候変動：水サイクルに関する新知見
Global change: The water cycle freshens up p793
Rivers are delivering increasing amounts of fresh water to the ocean. The cause seems to be the influence that higher concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide are having on water use by plants.
Damon Matthews
doi:10.1038/439793a
発生生物学：沈黙に通じる2つの道はつながっている
Developmental biology: Two paths to silence merge p794
To maintain their identity across generations, specialized cells must heritably repress swathes of genes — keeping active only genes necessary for the cell's purpose. Now it seems two repressive pathways join forces.
Panthea Taghaviand Maarten van Lohuizen
doi:10.1038/439794a
化学：イオン性液体の揮発
Chemistry: Volatile times for ionic liquids p797
Ionic liquids are useful substances, but in certain applications their utility is limited because they are involatile — or so we thought. In fact, some ionic liquids can be distilled, and even thermally separated.
Peter Wasserscheid
doi:10.1038/439797a
遺伝学：コピー数はいくつ？
Genetics: Copies count p798
Some genes have more than one copy, and the copy number can differ among individuals. But does this variation affect the person involved? It seems susceptibility to certain common diseases can be altered.
Joseph H. Nadeauand Charles Lee
doi:10.1038/439798a
分光学：地球磁場を使うNMR
Spectroscopy: NMR down to Earth p799
High-precision nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy generally requires the use of powerful magnets. But using Earth's magnetic field allows us to gain some of the same information on the cheap.
Janez Stepi
nik
doi:10.1038/439799a
50 & 100 years ago p799
doi:10.1038/439799b
地図作成学：人口を表す俯瞰地図
Cartography: A popular perspective p800
化学：結合の短さ
Chemistry: Brevity for bonds p801
Fashion design? Game-playing? Designing the shortest bond between two carbon atoms can seem to have elements of such apparently ephemeral pursuits. But it can also stretch the chemist's creativity.
Jay S. Siegel
doi:10.1038/439802a
微生物学：防護用ラケット
Microbiology: Protection racket p802
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Brief Communications
Invasion and the evolution of speed in toads p803
Cane toads seem to have honed their dispersal ability to devastating effect over the generations.
Benjamin L. Phillips, Gregory P. Brown, Jonathan K. Webband Richard Shine
doi:10.1038/439803a
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Articles
植物：自家不和合性タバコが行っているS-RNアーゼの区画化およびHT-Bの分解
Compartmentalization of S-RNase and HT-B degradation in self-incompatible Nicotiana p805
Ariel Goldraij, Katsuhiko Kondo, Christopher B. Lee, C. Nathan Hancock, Mayandi Sivaguru, Sonia Vazquez-Santana, Sunran Kim, Thomas E. Phillips, Felipe Cruz-Garciaand Bruce McClure
doi:10.1038/nature04491
細胞：JmjCドメインをもつタンパク質ファミリーによるヒストンの脱メチル化
Histone demethylation by a family of JmjC domain-containing proteins p811
Yu-ichi Tsukada, Jia Fang, Hediye Erdjument-Bromage, Maria E. Warren, Christoph H. Borchers, Paul Tempstand Yi Zhang
doi:10.1038/nature04433
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Letters
宇宙：回転する中性子星からのトランジェントな電波バースト
Transient radio bursts from rotating neutron stars p817
M. A. McLaughlin, A. G. Lyne, D. R. Lorimer, M. Kramer, A. J. Faulkner, R. N. Manchester, J. M. Cordes, F. Camilo, A. Possenti, I. H. Stairs, G. Hobbs, N. D'Amico, M. Burgayand J. T. O'Brien
doi:10.1038/nature04440
宇宙：鉄隕石は地球型惑星領域で形成された微惑星の残骸と考えられる
Iron meteorites as remnants of planetesimals formed in the terrestrial planet region p821
William F. Bottke, David Nesvorný, Robert E. Grimm, Alessandro Morbidelliand David P. O'Brien
doi:10.1038/nature04536
物理：半金属強磁性体CrO2を通るスピン三重項超伝導電流
A spin triplet supercurrent through the half-metallic ferromagnet CrO2 p825
R. S. Keizer, S. T. B. Goennenwein, T. M. Klapwijk, G. Miao, G. Xiaoand A. Gupta
doi:10.1038/nature04499
物理：静的な粉粒体に働く力のネットワークのスケール不変性と普遍性
Scale invariance and universality of force networks in static granular matter p828
Srdjan Ostojic, Ellák Somfaiand Bernard Nienhuis
doi:10.1038/nature04549
化学：イオン性液体の蒸留と揮発性
The distillation and volatility of ionic liquids p831
Martyn J. Earle, José M.S.S. Esperança, Manuela A. Gilea, José N. Canongia Lopes, Luís P.N. Rebelo, Joseph W. Magee, Kenneth R. Seddonand Jason A. Widegren
doi:10.1038/nature04451
気候：大陸の河川流出量の記録における二酸化炭素の直接的な影響の検出
Detection of a direct carbon dioxide effect in continental river runoff records p835
N. Gedney, P. M. Cox, R. A. Betts, O. Boucher, C. Huntingfordand P. A. Stott
doi:10.1038/nature04504
進化：オーストラリアの漸新世-中新世の地層で見つかったMacrostomata類に入らない大型ヘビ類Yurlunggurの頭骨
Skull of the large non-macrostomatan snake Yurlunggur from the Australian Oligo-Miocene p839
獣疫学：広範囲に及ぶアナグマ駆除がウシの結核に及ぼすプラスとマイナスの影響
Positive and negative effects of widespread badger culling on tuberculosis in cattle p843
Christl A. Donnelly, Rosie Woodroffe, D. R. Cox, F. John Bourne, C. L. Cheeseman, Richard S. Clifton-Hadley, Gao Wei, George Gettinby, Peter Gilks, Helen Jenkins, W. Thomas Johnston, Andrea M. Le Fevre, John P. McInerneyand W. Ivan Morrison
doi:10.1038/nature04454
植物：海洋性の浮遊細菌と古細菌の間でのプロテオロドプシン遺伝子の水平伝播
Proteorhodopsin lateral gene transfer between marine planktonic Bacteria and Archaea p847
Niels-Ulrik Frigaard, Asuncion Martinez, Tracy J. Mincerand Edward F. DeLong
doi:10.1038/nature04435
遺伝：Fcgr3のコピー数多型がラットおよびヒトにおいて糸球体腎炎の素因となる
Copy number polymorphism in Fcgr3 predisposes to glomerulonephritis in rats and humans p851
Timothy J. Aitman, Rong Dong, Timothy J. Vyse, Penny J. Norsworthy, Michelle D. Johnson, Jennifer Smith, Jonathan Mangion, Cheri Roberton-Lowe, Amy J. Marshall, Enrico Petretto, Matthew D. Hodges, Gurjeet Bhangal, Sheetal G. Patel, Kelly Sheehan-Rooney, Mark Duda, Paul R. Cook, David J. Evans, Jan Domin, Jonathan Flint, Joseph J. Boyle, Charles D. Puseyand H. Terence Cook
doi:10.1038/nature04489
遺伝：遺伝子調節へのボトムアップ・アプローチ
A bottom-up approach to gene regulation p856
Nicholas J. Guido, Xiao Wang, David Adalsteinsson, David McMillen, Jeff Hasty, Charles R. Cantor, Timothy C. Elstonand J. J. Collins
doi:10.1038/nature04473
遺伝：真核生物遺伝子の発現にみられる外因性変動の起源
Origins of extrinsic variability in eukaryotic gene expression p861
Dmitri Volfson, Jennifer Marciniak, William J. Blake, Natalie Ostroff, Lev S. Tsimringand Jeff Hasty
doi:10.1038/nature04281
脳：霊長類の扁桃体は学習中の視覚刺激の正負の価値を表わす
The primate amygdala represents the positive and negative value of visual stimuli during learning p865
Joseph J. Paton, Marina A. Belova, Sara E. Morrisonand C. Daniel Salzman
doi:10.1038/nature04490
細胞：ポリコーム群タンパク質EZH2はDNAメチル化を直接制御する
The Polycomb group protein EZH2 directly controls DNA methylation p871
Emmanuelle Viré, Carmen Brenner, Rachel Deplus, Loïc Blanchon, Mario Fraga, Céline Didelot, Lluis Morey, Aleyde Van Eynde, David Bernard, Jean-Marie Vanderwinden, Mathieu Bollen, Manel Esteller, Luciano Di Croce, Yvan de Launoitand François Fuks
doi:10.1038/nature04431
細胞：マイナス端方向へ移動するキネシンNcdはレバー-アームの回転によって移動する
A lever-arm rotation drives motility of the minus-end-directed kinesin Ncd p875
Nicholas F. Endres, Craig Yoshioka, Ronald A. Milliganand Ronald D. Vale
doi:10.1038/nature04320
生化学：酸化DNA/RNA修復酵素AlkBの触媒複合体の結晶構造
Crystal structures of catalytic complexes of the oxidative DNA/RNA repair enzyme AlkB p879
Bomina Yu, William C. Edstrom, Jordi Benach, Yoshitomo Hamuro, Patricia C. Weber, Brian R. Gibneyand John F. Hunt
doi:10.1038/nature04561
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Career Views
Naturejobs
ProspectValuable lessons p885
Help in developing the 'soft' skills.
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj7078-885a
Special Report
Drug hunt p886
In the first of a series of articles on the drug pipeline, Hannah Hoag looks at the opportunities in selecting leads.
Hannah Hoag
doi:10.1038/nj7078-886a
Career Views
Giulio Superti-Furga, scientific director and chief executive, Research Center for Molecular Medicine, Austrian Academy of Sciences p888
Proteomics expert returns to academia after a stint in biotech.
Corie Lok
doi:10.1038/nj7078-888a
The changing face of Japan p888
Government invests in careers of young Japanese researchers.
Ichiko Fuyuno
doi:10.1038/nj7078-888b
The end of the affair p888
Final-year graduate student looks beyond the bench for future career.
Katja Bargum
doi:10.1038/nj7078-888c
