Table of contents
Volume 439 Number 7079 pp891-1030
Editorials
Science under attack p891
Researchers are increasingly upset with the Bush administration, not for its tactics but for its entire operational philosophy.
doi:10.1038/439891a
Not picture-perfect p891
Nature's new guidelines for digital images encourage openness about the way data are manipulated.
doi:10.1038/439891b
Diplomatic incident p892
Japan has fumbled its row with North Korea over tests to identify abductees.
doi:10.1038/439892a
News
US scientists fight political meddling p896
Nobel laureate attacks government's suppression of research findings.
Colin Macilwain and Geoff Brumfiel
doi:10.1038/439896a
Culture of fear reigns at Australian research lab p896
Protests grow over claims of academic censorship.
Carina Dennis
doi:10.1038/439896b
Y chromosome fuels dynastic dilemma p898
Genetics of the Japanese imperial succession examined.
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/439898a
Oil-rig staff get into marine biology p899
Industry deep-sea vehicles double as explorers.
Jim Giles
doi:10.1038/439899a
Frosty US visa policy leaves Indian science cold p901
Travel restrictions cast shadow over research alliance.
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/439901a
Sidelines p901
doi:10.1038/439901b
Grizzlies, dodos and Gore put science on film p902
Ex-vice-president taps into trend towards movies with a message.
Emma Marris
doi:10.1038/439902a
Unrest returns to confront Harvard president p903
Larry Summers' leadership faces fresh challenge.
Helen Pearson
doi:10.1038/439903a
News in brief p904
doi:10.1038/439904a
Correction p904
doi:10.1038/439904b
News Features
Marine science: Boiling points p905
Teams of researchers are finding vents in ocean floors around the globe. Christina Reed follows the hunt for these extreme ecosystems.
doi:10.1038/439905a
See also: Editor's summary
Agriculture and environment: How green was my subsidy? p908
Europe pumps large quantities of cash into schemes that encourage less-intensive farming. But, finds John Whitfield, some researchers are not sure what benefits they deliver.
doi:10.1038/439908a
See also: Editor's summary
Business
Rumblings from the fringe p910
The European Patent Office could fall victim of its own success, as threatened national offices attempt to claw back some influence. Alison Abbott reports.
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/439910a
In brief p911
doi:10.1038/439911a
Market watch p911
Helen Pearson
doi:10.1038/439911b
Correspondence
Public repositories need serious funding p912
Bela Tiwari, Dawn Field and Jason Snape
doi:10.1038/439912a
Public repositories: users reluctant to give materials p912
Roderick A. F. MacLeod and Hans G. Drexler
doi:10.1038/439912b
Diet's healthy blend of science and practicality p912
Alastair Robertson
doi:10.1038/439912c
What goes around comes around in drug discovery p912
Robin Spencer, Kelly Longo and John Lowe
doi:10.1038/439912d
Books and Arts
The changing face of Arab culture p913
Studies of the differences between people can shed light on the rise of Islamism in the Middle East.
Robert Springborg reviews The Middle East: A Cultural Psychology by Gary S. Gregg
doi:10.1038/439913a
Feathered friends p914
Alex Kacelnik reviews In the Company of Crows and Ravens by John R. Marzluff and Tony Angell and Crows: Encounters with the Wise Guys of the Avian World by Candace Savage
doi:10.1038/439914a
In the beginning p915
Leslie Orgel reviews Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life's Origins by Robert M. Hazen
doi:10.1038/439915a
See also: Editor's summary
Science in culture: Bauhaus at the zoo p916
Modernist designers in the 1930s found inspiration in the life sciences.
Peder Anker
doi:10.1038/439916a
Essay
Family values in black and white p917
The sexual behaviour of penguins, although fascinating, does not offer the moral lessons that some popular commentators would have us believe.
Marlene Zuk
doi:10.1038/439917a
See also: Editor's summary
News and Views
Quantum information: To compute or not to compute? p919
Quantum physics aims another blow at common sense: a simple quantum computer gives the right answer, even when it is not run. (Traditionalists be comforted: the computer must be turned on.)
Jonathan P. Dowling
doi:10.1038/439919a
Neurobiology: Efficiency measures p920
The nervous system translates sensory information into electrical impulses. The neural 'code' involved seems to represent natural sounds and images efficiently, using the smallest number of impulses.
Michael R. DeWeese and Anthony Zador
doi:10.1038/439920a
Particle physics: Quarks on a gravitational string p921
Quantum chromodynamics, the theory of the strong nuclear force, is notoriously intractable. An alternative approach brings gravity to bear, and produces fairly accurate predictions of some physical quantities.
Nick Evans
doi:10.1038/439921a
Evolution: Careful with that amphioxus p923
The textbook tale of vertebrate origins is brought into question by phylogenetic analyses of new genomic data. But the amphioxus, long viewed as a precursor to fish, remains a central character in events.
Henry Gee
doi:10.1038/439923a
See also: Editor's summary
Planetary science: Pluto's expanding brood p924
Pluto is no lone ranger in the farthest expanses of the Solar System — its travelling companions now number three. And if Pluto can have so many, why shouldn't other objects in the distant, icy Kuiper belt?
Richard P. Binzel
doi:10.1038/439924a
50 & 100 years ago p925
Marine biology: Spawning spot p926
Rosalind Cotter
doi:10.1038/439926a
See also: Editor's summary
Parasitology: Switching like for like p926
To remain hidden from its host's immune system, the malaria parasite must vary the proteins on the surface of the infected cell. The genes encoding these proteins are very similar, so how does the parasite express just one at a time?
Piet Borst and Paul-André Genest
doi:10.1038/439926b
See also: Editor's summary
Corrections p927
doi:10.1038/439927a
Corrections p927
doi:10.1038/439927b
Corrections p927
doi:10.1038/439927c
Obituary: Nicholas Shackleton (1937–2006) p928
A founding father of palaeoclimatology, and an avid clarinettist.
Gerald H. Haug and Larry C. Peterson
doi:10.1038/439928a
Brief Communications
Oceanic biology: Spawning of eels near a seamount p929
Tiny transparent larvae of the Japanese eel collected in the open ocean reveal a strategic spawning site.
Katsumi Tsukamoto
doi:10.1038/439929a
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See also: Editor's summary
Review
A new radiocarbon revolution and the dispersal of modern humans in Eurasia p931
Paul Mellars
doi:10.1038/nature04521
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (392K)
See also: Editor's summary
Article
Adaptive filtering enhances information transmission in visual cortex p936
Tatyana O. Sharpee, Hiroki Sugihara, Andrei V. Kurgansky, Sergei P. Rebrik, Michael P. Stryker and Kenneth D. Miller
doi:10.1038/nature04519
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (398K) | Supplementary information
See also: News and Views by DeWeese & Zador
Letters
Discovery of two new satellites of Pluto p943
H. A. Weaver, S. A. Stern, M. J. Mutchler, A. J. Steffl, M. W. Buie, W. J. Merline, J. R. Spencer, E. F. Young and L. A. Young
doi:10.1038/nature04547
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (190K) | Supplementary information
See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Binzel
A giant impact origin for Pluto's small moons and satellite multiplicity in the Kuiper belt p946
S. A. Stern, H. A. Weaver, A. J. Steffl, M. J. Mutchler, W. J. Merline, M. W. Buie, E. F. Young, L. A. Young and J. R. Spencer
doi:10.1038/nature04548
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (178K) | Supplementary information
See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Binzel
Counterfactual quantum computation through quantum interrogation p949
Onur Hosten, Matthew T. Rakher, Julio T. Barreiro, Nicholas A. Peters and Paul G. Kwiat
doi:10.1038/nature04523
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (244K) | Supplementary information
See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Dowling
Quantum supercurrent transistors in carbon nanotubes p953
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Jorden A. van Dam and Leo P. Kouwenhoven
doi:10.1038/nature04550
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Magnetic-field-induced shape recovery by reverse phase transformation p957
R. Kainuma, Y. Imano, W. Ito, Y. Sutou, H. Morito, S. Okamoto, O. Kitakami, K. Oikawa, A. Fujita, T. Kanomata and K. Ishida
doi:10.1038/nature04493
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Aluminium control of argon solubility in silicate melts under pressure p961
M. Ali Bouhifd and Andrew P. Jephcoat
doi:10.1038/nature04583
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Tunicates and not cephalochordates are the closest living relatives of vertebrates p965
Frédéric Delsuc, Henner Brinkmann, Daniel Chourrout and Hervé Philippe
doi:10.1038/nature04336
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (243K) | Supplementary information
See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Gee
Parasitic plants indirectly regulate below-ground properties in grassland ecosystems p969
Richard D. Bardgett, Roger S. Smith, Robert S. Shiel, Simon Peacock, Janet M. Simkin, Helen Quirk and Phil J. Hobbs
doi:10.1038/nature04197
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Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy in mice overexpressing FRG1 p973
Davide Gabellini, Giuseppe D'Antona, Maurizio Moggio, Alessandro Prelle, Chiara Zecca, Raffaella Adami, Barbara Angeletti, Patrizia Ciscato, Maria Antonietta Pellegrino, Roberto Bottinelli, Michael R. Green and Rossella Tupler
doi:10.1038/nature04422
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Efficient auditory coding p978
Evan C. Smith and Michael S. Lewicki
doi:10.1038/nature04485
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (350K) | Supplementary information
See also: News and Views by DeWeese & Zador
Fast vesicle reloading and a large pool sustain high bandwidth transmission at a central synapse p983
Chiara Saviane and R. Angus Silver
doi:10.1038/nature04509
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (959K) | Supplementary information
NMDA receptors mediate calcium accumulation in myelin during chemical ischaemia p988
I. Micu, Q. Jiang, E. Coderre, A. Ridsdale, L. Zhang, J. Woulfe, X. Yin, B. D. Trapp, J. E. McRory, R. Rehak, G. W. Zamponi, W. Wang and P. K. Stys
doi:10.1038/nature04474
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Purification and unique properties of mammary epithelial stem cells p993
John Stingl, Peter Eirew, Ian Ricketson, Mark Shackleton, François Vaillant, David Choi, Haiyan I. Li and Connie J. Eaves
doi:10.1038/nature04496
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Eisosomes mark static sites of endocytosis p998
Tobias C. Walther, Jason H. Brickner, Pablo S. Aguilar, Sebastián Bernales, Carlos Pantoja and Peter Walter
doi:10.1038/nature04472
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See also: Editor's summary
A var gene promoter controls allelic exclusion of virulence genes in Plasmodium falciparum malaria p1004
Till S. Voss, Julie Healer, Allison J. Marty, Michael F. Duffy, Jennifer K. Thompson, James G. Beeson, John C. Reeder, Brendan S. Crabb and Alan F. Cowman
doi:10.1038/nature04407
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See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Borst & Genest
Identification of pathways regulating cell size and cell-cycle progression by RNAi p1009
Mikael Björklund, Minna Taipale, Markku Varjosalo, Juha Saharinen, Juhani Lahdenperä and Jussi Taipale
doi:10.1038/nature04469
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Corrigendum: Genetic and developmental basis of evolutionary pelvic reduction in threespine sticklebacks p1014
Michael D. Shapiro, Melissa E. Marks, Catherine L. Peichel, Benjamin K. Blackman, Kirsten S. Nereng, Bjarni Jónsson, Dolph Schluter and David M. Kingsley
doi:10.1038/nature04500
Corrigendum: Genomic perspectives in microbial oceanography p1014
Edward F. DeLong and David M. Karl
doi:10.1038/nature04573
Corrigendum: Highly variable Northern Hemisphere temperatures reconstructed from low- and high-resolution proxy data p1014
Anders Moberg, Dmitry M. Sonechkin, Karin Holmgren, Nina M. Datsenko, Wibjörn Karlén and Stein-Erik Lauritzen
doi:10.1038/nature04575
Technology Features
Protein purification: Fast forward p1017
Proteomics raises new challenges in protein purification. Technologies well adapted to isolate individual proteins get a makeover to tackle large numbers of samples. Laura Bonetta investigates.
Laura Bonetta
doi:10.1038/4391017a
Protein purification: Proteomics at Harvard p1017
doi:10.1038/4391017b
Protein purification: Protein purification for structural proteomics p1018
doi:10.1038/4391018a
Protein purification: Cell or cell-free? p1019
doi:10.1038/4391019a
Protein purification: Target identification p1021
doi:10.1038/4391021a
Protein purification: Table of suppliers p1022
doi:10.1038/4391022a
Naturejobs
ProspectHaving it all p1025
A former researcher's career path shows how one can stay connected to academic science.
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj7079-1025a
Region
Pacific sunrise p1026
The Pacific Northwest of North America doesn't just mean Microsoft, Intel and some big trees. Already noted for the quality of its biological research, the biotechnology base in cities such as Vancouver is set to grow too, as Virginia Gewin finds out.
Virginia Gewin
doi:10.1038/nj7079-1026a
Career Views
Neal Copeland and Nancy Jenkins, principal investigators, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore p1028
Husband-and-wife team venture overseas to start new cancer lab.
Janet Wright
doi:10.1038/nj7079-1028a
Learning to teach p1028
Oxford centre looks at whether improving teaching skills enhances research.
Keith Trigwell & Richard Arnold
doi:10.1038/nj7079-1028b
PhD, take two p1028
After a disappointing first attempt at a PhD, one grad student gets a new start.
Mhairi Dupre
doi:10.1038/nj7079-1028c
Highlights
California: Golden State Golden Opportunities
doi:10.1038/nj0112
Spotlight
Spotlight on Pacific Northwest
doi:10.1038/nj0113