Termite gut bacteria produce a wealth of wood-degrading enzymes.
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Volume 450 Number 7169 pp457-584
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Making the paper: Jared Leadbetter pxiii
Abstractions pxiii
From the blogosphere pxiii
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Editorials
Mind games p457
Replicator review p457
Nature has implemented a peer-review policy for strong claims.
doi:10.1038/450457b
Better late than never p458
The decision to make the Leopoldina Germany's national academy of sciences is to be welcomed.
doi:10.1038/450458a
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News
Race to mimic human embryonic stem cells p462
Drug firms accused of biasing doctors' training p464
UK 'terrorist' fights science-course ban p467
Iraqi national challenges British government for right to study biology and chemistry.
Geoff Brumfiel
doi:10.1038/450467a
UK 'terrorist' fights science-course ban p467
Iraqi national challenges British government for right to study biology and chemistry.
Geoff Brumfiel
doi:10.1038/450467a
Sidelines p468
Sidelines p468
UK astronomers stunned by Gemini withdrawal p468
But decision to pull out of observatory could save millions.
Eric Hand
doi:10.1038/450468b
Proposal raises bones of contention p469
Anthropologists lobby to retain Native Indian skeletons for study.
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/450469a
Proposal raises bones of contention p469
Anthropologists lobby to retain Native Indian skeletons for study.
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/450469a
Germany sets up national academy of sciences p470
Climate body's summary urges action on warming p470
Stem-cell researcher accused of negligence p470
Stem-cell researcher accused of negligence p470
Presidential veto leaves NIH facing shortfall p470
Presidential veto leaves NIH facing shortfall p470
Midwest coalition joins fight against emissions p470
Midwest coalition joins fight against emissions p470
Congolese government creates bonobo reserve p470
Congolese government creates bonobo reserve p470
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Business
Trip into the unknown p471
A plant in Uganda hopes to sell cut-price drugs by taking advantage of exemptions from rules that protect patents. But its operators face major obstacles, as Tatum Anderson reports.
Tatum Anderson
doi:10.1038/450471a
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News Features
Into the Deep: Lights in the deep p472
Far below the surface of the ocean, beyond the reach of the Sun's rays, organisms still have eyes. Mark Schrope investigates seeing without sunlight.
Mark Schrope
doi:10.1038/450472a
Profile: Innate ability p475
With keen immunological insight and a knockout mouse 'factory', Shizuo Akira leads by quiet example. David Cyranoski visits the world's most-cited scientist as he prepares to run one of Japan's premier research centres.
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/450475a
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Correspondence
Biofuel: microalgae cut the social and ecological costs p478
Biofuel: corn isn't the king of this growing domain p478
Research in the wild p478
Kyoto: doing our best is no longer enough p478
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Books and Arts
Flavour and plenty p479
There may be more to great dishes than a dash of chemistry and a squeeze of lime juice.
doi:10.1038/450479a
Quests of a theoretical astronomer p480
Time deconstructed p480
doi:10.1038/450480b
Scientists on film p481
doi:10.1038/450481a
Dishing the dirt on hygiene p482
doi:10.1038/450482a
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Essay
Science & politicsAccommodating dissent p483
Providing cures for health problems isn't enough, if people's personal or cultural beliefs clash with the scientific approach. Policy-makers must recognize and engage with these objections.
Melissa Leach
doi:10.1038/450483a
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News and Views
幹細胞: 霊長類でも成功した細胞の再プログラミング
Stem cells: Primates join the club p485
Researchers have achieved the testing goal of generating embryonic stem cells from the cells of an adult primate. The procedure used could provide insights into a variety of diseases, if it can be applied in humans.
Ian Wilmut & Jane Taylor
doi:10.1038/450485a
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材料科学: カーボンナノチューブの精製
Materials science: Purity rolled up in a tube p486
Before carbon nanotubes can fulfil their potential in device applications, better ways must be found to produce pure samples of them. A promising approach involves wrapping them up in a shell of polymer.
Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos & Sang-Yong Ju
doi:10.1038/450486a
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微生物学: シロアリの消化様式
Microbiology: Woodworker's digest p487
Termites digest wood with the help of their intestinal microorganisms. The first metagenomic analysis of the inhabitants of a termite gut provides insight into this feat of biomass-to-energy conversion.
Andreas Brune
doi:10.1038/450487a
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天文学: 5年目のスローン・デジタル・スカイ・サーベイ
Astronomy: Sloan at five p488
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey represents the most ambitious attempt yet to map out a slice of the sky. In the first five years of its existence, it has revealed cosmic structures on every conceivable scale.
Robert C. Kennicutt Jr
doi:10.1038/450488a
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地球科学: はるかかなたの堆積
Earth science: Sediment en route to oblivion p490
Sudden collapses of the sea floor can generate oceanic sediment flows that dwarf the global annual sediment input from rivers. Such flows can travel great distances, and undergo transformation along the way.
Philip A. Allen
doi:10.1038/450490a
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炭素循環: 海が変える二酸化炭素取り込み量
Carbon cycle: Marine manipulations p491
The effect of increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide on carbon uptake in and export from the upper ocean is one of the big questions in environmental science. But it can be tackled experimentally.
Kevin R. Arrigo
doi:10.1038/450491a
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高温超伝導: 二重人格の電子
High-temperature superconductivity: Schizophrenic electrons p492
The split personality of the conduction electrons in one high-temperature superconductor might indicate that periodic modulations of their spin and charge density are a general feature of these mystifying materials.
Christian Pfleiderer & Rudi Hackl
doi:10.1038/450492a
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Feature
Grand challenges in chronic non-communicable diseases p494
The top 20 policy and research priorities for conditions such as diabetes, stroke and heart disease.
Abdallah S. Daar, Peter A. Singer, Deepa Leah Persad, Stig K. Pramming, David R. Matthews, Robert Beaglehole, Alan Bernstein, Leszek K. Borysiewicz, Stephen Colagiuri, Nirmal Ganguly, Roger I. Glass, Diane T. Finegood, Jeffrey Koplan, Elizabeth G. Nabel, George Sarna, Nizal Sarrafzadegan, Richard Smith, Derek Yach & John Bell
doi:10.1038/450494a
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Brief Communications Arising
Genotyping of Rhesus SCNT pluripotent stem cell lines pE12
David S. Cram, Bi Song & Alan O. Trounson
doi:10.1038/nature06456
Evidence for mantle plumes? pE15
Bourdon et al. reply pE16
B. Bourdon, N. M. Ribe, A. Stracke, A. Saal & S. Turner
doi:10.1038/nature06377
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Articles
体細胞核移植による霊長類胚性幹細胞の作成
Producing primate embryonic stem cells by somatic cell nuclear transfer p497
J. A. Byrne, D. A. Pedersen, L. L. Clepper, M. Nelson, W. G. Sanger, S. Gokhale, D. P. Wolf & S. M. Mitalipov
doi:10.1038/nature06357
マウスの嗅球における先天的なにおい処理と後天的におい処理
Innate versus learned odour processing in the mouse olfactory bulb p503
Ko Kobayakawa, Reiko Kobayakawa, Hideyuki Matsumoto, Yuichiro Oka, Takeshi Imai, Masahito Ikawa, Masaru Okabe, Toshio Ikeda, Shigeyoshi Itohara, Takefumi Kikusui, Kensaku Mori & Hitoshi Sakano
doi:10.1038/nature06281
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ヒトCtIPはDNA末端の切除を促進する
Human CtIP promotes DNA end resection p509
Alessandro A. Sartori, Claudia Lukas, Julia Coates, Martin Mistrik, Shuang Fu, Jiri Bartek, Richard Baer, Jiri Lukas & Stephen P. Jackson
doi:10.1038/nature06337
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マルトース輸送体の触媒反応中間体の結晶構造
Crystal structure of a catalytic intermediate of the maltose transporter p515
Michael L. Oldham, Dheeraj Khare, Florante A. Quiocho, Amy L. Davidson & Jue Chen
doi:10.1038/nature06264
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Coherent zero-state and
Letters
炭素の大気をもつ白色矮星
White dwarf stars with carbon atmospheres p522
火星にマグマオーシャンが長く存在したことを示す142Ndと143Ndの対による証拠
Coupled 142Nd–143Nd evidence for a protracted magma ocean in Mars p525
V. Debaille, A. D. Brandon, Q. Z. Yin & B. Jacobsen
doi:10.1038/nature06317
励起子-ポラリトン凝縮体配列におけるコヒーレントな零状態とπ状態
Coherent zero-state and 
-state in an exciton–polariton condensate array p529
C. W. Lai, N. Y. Kim, S. Utsunomiya, G. Roumpos, H. Deng, M. D. Fraser, T. Byrnes, P. Recher, N. Kumada, T. Fujisawa & Y. Yamamoto
doi:10.1038/nature06334
正孔ドープ高Tc超伝導体のフェルミ面における電子ポケット
Electron pockets in the Fermi surface of hole-doped high-Tc superconductors p533
David LeBoeuf, Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud, Julien Levallois, R. Daou, J.-B. Bonnemaison, N. E. Hussey, L. Balicas, B. J. Ramshaw, Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn, W. N. Hardy, S. Adachi, Cyril Proust & Louis Taillefer
doi:10.1038/nature06332
大気降下物の化学的性質の変化から生じる溶存有機炭素の変化傾向
Dissolved organic carbon trends resulting from changes in atmospheric deposition chemistry p537
Donald T. Monteith, John L. Stoddard, Christopher D. Evans, Heleen A. de Wit, Martin Forsius, Tore Høgåsen, Anders Wilander, Brit Lisa Skjelkvåle, Dean S. Jeffries, Jussi Vuorenmaa, Bill Keller, Jiri Kopácek & Josef Vesely
doi:10.1038/nature06316
もとの巨大地すべりからはるかに離れた場所での海底岩屑流堆積の開始
Onset of submarine debris flow deposition far from original giant landslide p541
P. J. Talling, R. B. Wynn, D. G. Masson, M. Frenz, B. T. Cronin, R. Schiebel, A. M. Akhmetzhanov, S. Dallmeier-Tiessen, S. Benetti, P. P. E. Weaver, A. Georgiopoulou, C. Zühlsdorff & L. A. Amy
doi:10.1038/nature06313
CO2値の高い海洋での生物による炭素消費量の増加
Enhanced biological carbon consumption in a high CO2 ocean p545
U. Riebesell, K. G. Schulz, R. G. J. Bellerby, M. Botros, P. Fritsche, M. Meyerhöfer, C. Neill, G. Nondal, A. Oschlies, J. Wohlers & E. Zöllner
doi:10.1038/nature06267
位相差X線断層撮影顕微鏡法によってグネツム目およびベネチテス目のものとされた白亜紀の種子
Phase-contrast X-ray microtomography links Cretaceous seeds with Gnetales and Bennettitales p549
Else Marie Friis, Peter R. Crane, Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen, Stefan Bengtson, Philip C. J. Donoghue, Guido W. Grimm & Marco Stampanoni
doi:10.1038/nature06278
線虫成体の寿命を延長する抗うつ薬
An antidepressant that extends lifespan in adult Caenorhabditis elegans p553
Michael Petrascheck, Xiaolan Ye & Linda B. Buck
doi:10.1038/nature05991
言語能力獲得前の乳児による社会的判定
Social evaluation by preverbal infants p557
J. Kiley Hamlin, Karen Wynn & Paul Bloom
doi:10.1038/nature06288
食材性高等シロアリの後腸微生物叢のメタゲノムおよび機能解析
Metagenomic and functional analysis of hindgut microbiota of a wood-feeding higher termite p560
Falk Warnecke, Peter Luginbühl, Natalia Ivanova, Majid Ghassemian, Toby H. Richardson, Justin T. Stege, Michelle Cayouette, Alice C. McHardy, Gordana Djordjevic, Nahla Aboushadi, Rotem Sorek, Susannah G. Tringe, Mircea Podar, Hector Garcia Martin, Victor Kunin, Daniel Dalevi, Julita Madejska, Edward Kirton, Darren Platt, Ernest Szeto, Asaf Salamov, Kerrie Barry, Natalia Mikhailova, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Eric G. Matson, Elizabeth A. Ottesen, Xinning Zhang, Myriam Hernández, Catalina Murillo, Luis G. Acosta, Isidore Rigoutsos, Giselle Tamayo, Brian D. Green, Cathy Chang, Edward M. Rubin, Eric J. Mathur, Dan E. Robertson, Philip Hugenholtz & Jared R. Leadbetter
doi:10.1038/nature06269
抑制性サイトカインであるIL-35は調節性T細胞の機能に寄与する
The inhibitory cytokine IL-35 contributes to regulatory T-cell function p566
Lauren W. Collison, Creg J. Workman, Timothy T. Kuo, Kelli Boyd, Yao Wang, Kate M. Vignali, Richard Cross, David Sehy, Richard S. Blumberg & Dario A. A. Vignali
doi:10.1038/nature06306
SNARE-アダプター相互作用はクラスリン被覆小胞の積み荷認識の新たな様式である
A SNARE–adaptor interaction is a new mode of cargo recognition in clathrin-coated vesicles p570
Sharon E. Miller, Brett M. Collins, Airlie J. McCoy, Margaret S. Robinson & David J. Owen
doi:10.1038/nature06353
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高等植物における光防御的エネルギー散逸機構の同定
Identification of a mechanism of photoprotective energy dissipation in higher plants p575
Alexander V. Ruban, Rudi Berera, Cristian Ilioaia, Ivo H. M. van Stokkum, John T. M. Kennis, Andrew A. Pascal, Herbert van Amerongen, Bruno Robert, Peter Horton & Rienk van Grondelle
doi:10.1038/nature06262
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Special Report
Career View
Naturejobs
ProspectProspects p579
India's biotech bottleneck is a cautionary tale on how to look past the hype and gauge job prospects.
Gene Russo
doi:10.1038/nj7169-579a
Special Report
Indian biotech's bumpy road p580
The rush to join in India's latest boom sector has led to a bottleneck.
Paroma Basu
doi:10.1038/nj7169-580a
Career View
Susan Avery, president and director, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts p582
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute welcomes new director.
Virginia Gewin
doi:10.1038/nj7169-582a
Grand designs p582
University College London opens new cancer institute.
Hannah Hoag
doi:10.1038/nj7169-582b
Leaving science research p582
Nervously, and with much trepidation, I've decided to leave science research.
Peter Jordan
doi:10.1038/nj7169-582c
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Futures
Dating for the wired generation p584
A match made in silicon.
Stephen Gaskell
doi:10.1038/450584a
