Table of contents
Volume 443 Number 7114 pp883-1030
In this issue (26 October 2006)
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Editorials
Europe's arrested development p883
Encouraging statistics on industrial R&D don't tell the whole story.
doi:10.1038/443883a
Rich in plutonium p883
The US nuclear-weapons complex is too large — and is likely to remain so.
doi:10.1038/443883b
Plan bee p884
Another day, another genome.
doi:10.1038/443884a
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News
'A shocking lack of evidence' p888
The trial in Libya of six medics accused of infecting children with HIV ends next week. With the defendants facing possible execution, Declan Butler asked AIDS experts to assess the case against them.
doi:10.1038/443888a
Sidelines p890
doi:10.1038/443890a
Sceptics detect flaws in US nuclear monitor plan p890
Can North Korea's nuclear advances be contained?
Geoff Brumfiel
doi:10.1038/443890b
Polish scientists fight creationism p890
Deputy education minister calls evolution a 'lie'.
Almut Graebsch
doi:10.1038/443890c
From hive minds to humans p893
Honeybee genome offers insight into social behaviour.
Erika Check
doi:10.1038/443893a
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Grants fall victim to NIH success p894
Increase in applications sees funding rate plummet.
Jim Giles and Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/443894a
Funding agencies toughen stance on open access p894
Pressure grows for scientists to make research free for all.
Heidi Ledford
doi:10.1038/443894b
Snapshot: But is it natural? p895
Doors open on exhibition of animal homosexuality.
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/443895a
Business
Capital gains p897
London is seeking to compete with the Nasdaq as the preferred global venue for science-based companies trying to raise cash. Andrea Chipman reports.
doi:10.1038/443897a
News Features
Whitefly infestations: The Christmas Invasion p898
The cheerful leaves of the poinsettia could be hiding an unwelcome visitor this festive season. Rex Dalton goes in search of the whitefly, a potentially devastating pest.
doi:10.1038/443898a
Cell biology: Power games p901
There's a fight going on inside all our cells for each breath of air. Nick Lane sheds therapeutic light on the implications for cancer and degenerative diseases.
doi:10.1038/443901a
Marine natural products: Drugs from the deep p904
Is the cure for cancer lurking beneath the waves? Emma Marris plunges into the chemistry of marine natural products.
doi:10.1038/443904a
Correspondence
RNAi Nobel ignores vital groundwork on plants p906
Marc Bots, Spencer Maughan and Jeroen Nieuwland
doi:10.1038/443906a
Iran seeks nuclear power to replace reliance on oil p906
Kamran B. Lankarani
doi:10.1038/443906b
Iran: productivity is not simple to evaluate p906
Hamid Reza Maei
doi:10.1038/443906c
Iran: let's keep politics in the realm of rationality p906
Ludovico Cademartiri
doi:10.1038/443906d
Commentary
Preparing for the worst p907
An international data bank of nuclear explosives is needed to determine the source of nuclear materials following an explosion, argue Michael May, Jay Davis and Raymond Jeanloz.
doi:10.1038/443907a
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Autumn Books
The Chomsky of morality? p909
A view of morality as the product of an innate mental faculty — rather like language.
Paul Bloom and Izzat Jarudi review Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong by Marc D. Hauser
doi:10.1038/443909a
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Evidence for evolution p910
Brian Charlesworth reviews The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution by Sean B. Carroll
doi:10.1038/443910a
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Battlefield between the ears p911
Charles Jennings reviews Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense by Jonathan D. Moreno
doi:10.1038/443911a
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Experimental theatre p913
Stuart Firestein reviews Science on Stage: From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen by Kirsten Shepherd-Barr
doi:10.1038/443913a
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Sermons and straw men p914
Lawrence M. Krauss reviews The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
doi:10.1038/443914a
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The hero of Gombe p915
W. C. McGrew reviews Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man by Dale Peterson
doi:10.1038/443915a
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The theorist p917
Horace Freeland Judson reviews Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code by Matt Ridley
doi:10.1038/443917a
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Coping with uncertainty p918
Gianpietro Malescio reviews From Cosmos to Chaos: The Science of Unpredictability by Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/443918a
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News and Views
Genomics: How to make a social insect p919
The profound biological changes that lofted the honeybee to an advanced state of social organization are reflected in its newly sequenced genome. The species can now be studied all the way from molecule to colony.
Edward O. Wilson
doi:10.1038/443919a
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Palaeoceanography: In hot water p920
There has long been scepticism about the geochemical evidence that the ancient ocean was markedly warm. A fresh approach bolsters the case for an ocean that, in the distant past, was indeed quite hot.
Christina L. De La Rocha
doi:10.1038/443920a
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Palaeontology: Modern look for ancient lamprey p921
It was once thought that lampreys evolved from armoured jawless vertebrates. But a recently discovered lamprey fossil dates from the twilight age of their supposed ancestors, and looks surprisingly modern.
Philippe Janvier
doi:10.1038/443921a
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50 & 100 years ago p923
doi:10.1038/443923a
Electromagnetism: Like a speeding watch p924
A rotation in light's electric-field vector can alter the light's frequency. This rotational equivalent of the Doppler effect has proved surprisingly elusive, but has now been spotted in the laboratory.
Miles Padgett
doi:10.1038/443924a
Genomics: Blueprints for partnerships p925
Gutless marine worms harness the resources of a team of bacteria in lieu of a digestive or excretory system. A genome-sequence analysis now defines the roles of the microbes.
David A. Stahl and Seana K. Davidson
doi:10.1038/nature05208
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Geophysics: Protons lead the charge p927
Is the anomalously high electrical conductivity seen in part of Earth's mantle caused by protons derived from hydrous defects in the mineral olivine? Two groups investigate this possibility — and draw different conclusions.
Greg Hirth
doi:10.1038/443927a
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Developmental biology: Red-eye redirected p928
Barbara Marte
doi:10.1038/443928a
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Correction p928
doi:10.1038/443928b
Brief Communications
Palaeontology: Skull morphology of giant terror birds p929
These monstrous birds were probably more agile and less portly than previously thought.
Luis M. Chiappe and Sara Bertelli
doi:10.1038/443929a
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Top of page
Brief Communications Arising
Evolutionary biology: Sympatric plant speciation in islands? pE12
Tod F. Stuessy
doi:10.1038/nature05216
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Evolutionary biology: Sympatric plant speciation in islands? (Reply) pE12
Vincent Savolainen, Christian Lexer, Marie-Charlotte Anstett, Ian Hutton, J. J. Clarkson, M. V. Norup, M. P. Powell, D. Springate, N. Salamin and William J. Baker
doi:10.1038/nature05217
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Articles
Insights into social insects from the genome of the honeybee Apis mellifera p931
The Honeybee Genome Sequencing Consortium
doi:10.1038/nature05260
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Symbiosis insights through metagenomic analysis of a microbial consortium p950
Tanja Woyke, Hanno Teeling, Natalia N. Ivanova, Marcel Huntemann, Michael Richter, Frank Oliver Gloeckner, Dario Boffelli, Iain J. Anderson, Kerrie W. Barry, Harris J. Shapiro, Ernest Szeto, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Marc Mussmann, Rudolf Amann, Claudia Bergin, Caroline Ruehland, Edward M. Rubin and Nicole Dubilier
doi:10.1038/nature05192
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Complete crystallographic analysis of the dynamics of CCA sequence addition p956
Kozo Tomita, Ryuichiro Ishitani, Shuya Fukai and Osamu Nureki
doi:10.1038/nature05204
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Letters
Evidence for superfluidity of ultracold fermions in an optical lattice p961
J. K. Chin, D. E. Miller, Y. Liu, C. Stan, W. Setiawan, C. Sanner, K. Xu and W. Ketterle
doi:10.1038/nature05224
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Exploration of molecular dynamics during transient sorption of fluids in mesoporous materials p965
Rustem Valiullin, Sergej Naumov, Petrik Galvosas, Jörg Kärger, Hyung-June Woo, Fabien Porcheron and Peter A. Monson
doi:10.1038/nature05183
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A palaeotemperature curve for the Precambrian oceans based on silicon isotopes in cherts p969
François Robert and Marc Chaussidon
doi:10.1038/nature05239
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See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by De La Rocha
Hydrous olivine unable to account for conductivity anomaly at the top of the asthenosphere p973
Takashi Yoshino, Takuya Matsuzaki, Shigeru Yamashita and Tomoo Katsura
doi:10.1038/nature05223
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The effect of water on the electrical conductivity of olivine p977
Duojun Wang, Mainak Mookherjee, Yousheng Xu and Shun-ichiro Karato
doi:10.1038/nature05256
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A lamprey from the Devonian period of South Africa p981
Robert W. Gess, Michael I. Coates and Bruce S. Rubidge
doi:10.1038/nature05150
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Regulatory constraints in the evolution of the tetrapod limb anterior–posterior polarity p985
Basile Tarchini, Denis Duboule and Marie Kmita
doi:10.1038/nature05247
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Effects of biodiversity on the functioning of trophic groups and ecosystems p989
Bradley J. Cardinale, Diane S. Srivastava, J. Emmett Duffy, Justin P. Wright, Amy L. Downing, Mahesh Sankaran and Claire Jouseau
doi:10.1038/nature05202
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Corneal avascularity is due to soluble VEGF receptor-1 p993
Balamurali K. Ambati, Miho Nozaki, Nirbhai Singh, Atsunobu Takeda, Pooja D. Jani, Tushar Suthar, Romulo J. C. Albuquerque, Elizabeth Richter, Eiji Sakurai, Michael T. Newcomb, Mark E. Kleinman, Ruth B. Caldwell, Qing Lin, Yuichiro Ogura, Angela Orecchia, Don A. Samuelson, Dalen W. Agnew, Judy St. Leger, W. Richard Green, Parameshwar J. Mahasreshti, David T. Curiel, Donna Kwan, Helene Marsh, Sakae Ikeda, Lucy J. Leiper, J. Martin Collinson, Sasha Bogdanovich, Tejvir S. Khurana, Masabumi Shibuya, Megan E. Baldwin, Napoleone Ferrara, Hans-Peter Gerber, Sandro De Falco, Jassir Witta, Judit Z. Baffi, Brian J. Raisler and Jayakrishna Ambati
doi:10.1038/nature05249
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Chronic polyarthritis caused by mammalian DNA that escapes from degradation in macrophages p998
Kohki Kawane, Mayumi Ohtani, Keiko Miwa, Takuji Kizawa, Yoshiyuki Kanbara, Yoshichika Yoshioka, Hideki Yoshikawa and Shigekazu Nagata
doi:10.1038/nature05245
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Amplification of histone genes by circular chromosome formation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae p1003
Diana E. Libuda and Fred Winston
doi:10.1038/nature05205
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Distinct catalytic and non-catalytic roles of ARGONAUTE4 in RNA-directed DNA methylation p1008
Yijun Qi, Xingyue He, Xiu-Jie Wang, Oleksiy Kohany, Jerzy Jurka and Gregory J. Hannon
doi:10.1038/nature05198
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Corrigendum: The DNA sequence and biological annotation of human chromosome 1 p1013
S. G. Gregory, K. F. Barlow, K. E. McLay, R. Kaul, D. Swarbreck, A. Dunham, C. E. Scott, K. L. Howe, K. Woodfine, C. C. A. Spencer, M. C. Jones, C. Gillson, S. Searle, Y. Zhou, F. Kokocinski, L. McDonald, R. Evans, K. Phillips, A. Atkinson, R. Cooper, C. Jones, R. E. Hall, T. D. Andrews, C. Lloyd, R. Ainscough, J. P. Almeida, K. D. Ambrose, F. Anderson, R. W. Andrew, R. I. S. Ashwell, K. Aubin, A. K. Babbage, C. L. Bagguley, J. Bailey, R. Banerjee, H. Beasley, G. Bethel, C. P. Bird, S. Bray-Allen, J. Y. Brown, A. J. Brown, S. P. Bryant, D. Buckley, D. C. Burford, W. D. H. Burrill, J. Burton, J. Bye, C. Carder, J. C. Chapman, S. Y. Clark, G. Clarke, C. Clee, S. M. Clegg, V. Cobley, R. E. Collier, N. Corby, G. J. Coville, J. Davies, R. Deadman, P. Dhami, O. Dovey, M. Dunn, M. Earthrowl, A. G. Ellington, H. Errington, L. M. Faulkner, A. Frankish, J. Frankland, L. French, P. Garner, J. Garnett, L. Gay, M. R. J. Ghori, R. Gibson, L. M. Gilby, W. Gillett, R. J. Glithero, D. V. Grafham, S. M. Gribble, C. Griffiths, S. Griffiths-Jones, R. Grocock, S. Hammond, E. S. I. Harrison, E. Hart, E. Haugen, P. D. Heath, S. Holmes, K. Holt, P. J. Howden, A. R. Hunt, S. E. Hunt, G. Hunter, J. Isherwood, R. James, C. Johnson, D. Johnson, A. Joy, M. Kay, J. K. Kershaw, M. Kibukawa, A. M. Kimberley, A. King, A. J. Knights, H. Lad, G. Laird, C. F. Langford, S. Lawlor, D. A. Leongamornlert, D. M. Lloyd, J. Loveland, J. Lovell, M. J. Lush, R. Lyne, S. Martin, M. Mashreghi-Mohammadi, L. Matthews, N. S. W. Matthews, S. McLaren, S. Milne, S. Mistry, M. J. F. M. oore, T. Nickerson, C. N. O'Dell, K. Oliver, A. Palmeiri, S. A. Palmer, R. D. Pandian, A. Parker, D. Patel, A. V. Pearce, A. I. Peck, S. Pelan, K. Phelps, B. J. Phillimore, R. Plumb, K. M. Porter, E. Prigmore, J. Rajan, C. Raymond, G. Rouse, C. Saenphimmachak, H. K. Sehra, E. Sheridan, R. Shownkeen, S. Sims, C. D. Skuce, M. Smith, C. Steward, S. Subramanian, N. Sycamore, A. Tracey, A. Tromans, Z. Van Helmond, M. Wall J. M. Wallis, S. White, S. L. Whitehead, J. E. Wilkinson, D. L. Willey, H. Williams, L. Wilming, P. W. Wray, Z. Wu, A. Coulson, M. Vaudin, J. E. Sulston, R. Durbin, T. Hubbard, R. Wooster, I. Dunham, N. P. Carter, G. McVean, M. T. Ross, J. Harrow, M. V. Olson, S. Beck, J. Rogers and D. R. Bentley
doi:10.1038/nature05152
Retraction: Origin of the obliquities of the giant planets in mutual interactions in the early Solar System p1013
Adrián Brunini
doi:10.1038/nature05298
Corrigendum: Complete photo-fragmentation of the deuterium molecule p1014
T. Weber, A. O. Czasch, O. Jagutzki, A. K. Müller, V. Mergel, A. Kheifets, E. Rotenberg, G. Meigs, M. H. Prior, S. Daveau, A. Landers, C. L. Cocke, T. Osipov, R. Díez Muiño, H. Schmidt-Böcking and R. Dörner
doi:10.1038/nature05296
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Technology Features
Something to see p1017
Light microscopy is undergoing a renaissance, with a huge range of tools and techniques for gathering biological data with unprecedented speed and resolution. Michael Eisenstein takes a closer look.
Michael Eisenstein
doi:10.1038/4431017a
Achieving clarity p1017
doi:10.1038/4431017b
Thinking big, seeing small p1019
doi:10.1038/4431019a
Tower of Babel p1021
doi:10.1038/4431021a
Naturejobs
ProspectProspects p1025
UK academic salary analysis offers mixed news.
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj7114-1025a
Region
Northern exposure p1026
An alliance of universities in the north of England hopes to transform Britain's former industrial heartland into a centre of scientific excellence. Paul Smaglik reports.
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj7114-1026a
Career Views
Carl Pilcher, director, NASA Astrobiology Institute, Moffett Field, California p1028
Virginia Gewin
doi:10.1038/nj7114-1028a
Made-to-measure postdocs p1028
Mandë Holford
doi:10.1038/nj7114-1028b
How studies can save a life p1028
Milan de Vries
doi:10.1038/nj7114-1028c
Spotlight
Spotlight: N8 Group
doi:10.1038/nj0129