Volume 267 Issue 5606, 5 May 1977

Europe's pollution politics

• Chris Sherwell

Spreading the word

• David Spurgeon

Red Sea: Sifting the sediment

USA: Going public on rights

• Colin Norman

USSR

• Vera Rich

In Brief

Federation meetings

• THOMAS H. JUKES

New accelerators for high energy physics

• W. J. Willis

New physics and new accelerators in Europe

• B. H. Wiik

The accelerator after next

• D. J. Miller

Oncoviruses and cell membrane antigens

• Robin Weiss

Cathodoluminescence topography

• John Walker

How aseismic ridges behave

• Peter J. Smith

New twists in bacterial flagella

• Michael Spencer

Wanted alive—but handle with care

A hundred years ago

Evidence of Precambrian continent–continent collision in Western Norway

• Erling J. Krogh

Conformational change theory for auxin structure–activity relationships

• T. M. Kaethner

Polymorphism of the major envelope glycoprotein (gp70) of murine C-type viruses: virion associated and differentiation antigens encoded by a multi-gene family

• J. H. Elder
• F. C. Jensen
• R. A. Lerner

Galactic distribution of X-ray burst sources

• W. H. G. LEWIN
• J. A. HOFFMAN
• P. J. SERLEMITSOS

First mass spectrometric measurements of positive ions in the stratosphere

• F. ARNOLD
• D. KRANKOWSKY
• K. H. MARIEN

Methyl chloroform in the troposphere as an indicator of OH radical abundance

• J. E. LOVELOCK

Inhomogeneities in the water properties of fogs and clouds

• R. G. CORBIN
• J. LATHAM
• I. M. STROMBERG

Fine structure in caustic junctions

• M. V. BERRY
• J. F. NYE

Polarised infrared cathodoluminescence from platelet defects in natural diamonds

• I. KIFLAWI
• A. R. LANG

Supported ²⁴²Cm in the marine environment

• J. W. R. DUTTON
• B. LOVETT

Are rare earth elements mobile during spilitisation?

• PHILLIP L. HELLMAN
• PAUL HENDERSON

540-Myr-old anorthosite complex in the Grenville Province of Quebec, Canada

• MICHAEL D. HIGGINS
• RONALD DOIG

Phenology of sound-producing arctiid moths and the activity of insectivorous bats

• JAMES H. FULLARD

Survival value of fever in fish

• JERRY B. COVERT
• WILLIAM W. REYNOLDS

Soluble fragments from fungal cell walls elicit defence reactions in crayfish

• TORGNY UNESTAM
• KENNETH SÖDERHÄLL

Action of juvenile hormone mimics on the regulation of larval–adult and alary polymorphism in aphids

• A. D. LEES

Growth and differentiation of a primitive nervous cell line after in vivo transplantation into syngeneic mice

• F. DE VITRY

Interferon inhibits dimethyl sulphoxide-induced erythroid differentiation of Friend leukaemia cells

• G. B. ROSSI
• G. P. MATARESE
• A. BENEDETTO

Polyclonal Ig production after Epstein-Barr virus infection of human lymphocytes in vitro

• ANDERS ROSÉN
• PETER GERGELY
• SVEN BRITTON

Prevention of oncornavirus-induced sarcomas in cats by treatment with antiviral antibodies

• FERNANDO DE NORONHA
• RAYMOND BAGGS
• DANI P. BOLOGNESI

Melanotropin–daunomycin conjugate shows receptor-mediated cytotoxicity in cultured murine melanoma cells

• J. M. VARGA
• N. ASATO
• A. B. LERNER

Procarcinogen activation and hormonal control of cell proliferation in differentiated primary adult rat liver cell cultures

• H. L. LEFFERT
• T. MORAN
• K. S. KOCH

Activation of human leukocyte elastase by human α₂-macroglobulin

• DANIEL Y. TWUMASI
• IRVIN E. LIENER
• VERA LEVYTSKA

Effects of iron chelators and iron overload on Salmonella infection

• ROBERT L. JONES
• CHARLES M. PETERSON
• JOSEPH H. GRAZIANO

GABA receptor binding with ³H (+) bicuculline–methiodide in rat CNS

• H. MÖHLER
• T. OKADA

Direct detection of depolarisation-induced release of ATP from a synaptosomal preparation

• THOMAS D. WHITE

Role of electrogenic sodium pump in slow synaptic inhibition is re-evaluated

• PETER A. SMITH
• FORREST F. WEIGHT

Asymmetrical displacement currents in nerve cell membrane and effect of internal fluoride

• P. G. KOSTYUK
• O. A. KRISHTAL
• V. I. PIDOPLICHKO

Does cyclic GMP mediate the negative inotropic effect of acetylcholine in the heart?

• HERMANN NAWRATH

Variation of thin filament length in heart muscle

• THOMAS F. ROBINSON
• SAUL WINEGRAD

Sodium sensitivity of baroreceptors mediates reflex changes of blood pressure and urine flow

• DIANA L. KUNZE
• WILLIAM R. SAUM
• ARTHUR M. BROWN

Interaction of DNA and liposomes as a model for membrane-mediated DNA damage

• DENNIS D. PIETRONIGRO
• W. BARRIE G. JONES
• HARRY B. DEMOPOULOS

Gap filling during postreplication repair of DNA in recombination deficient Escherichia coli

• ROBERT CAREY JOHNSON

Repair of DNA damaged by alkylating carcinogens is defective in xeroderma pigmentosum-derived fibroblasts

• REGINE GOTH-GOLDSTEIN

Algal genetics

• Lynn Margulis

Aggregation chimaeras

• Susumu Ohno

Practical problems of the visual world

• F. W. Campbell

Virology symposia

• Robin Weiss

Bioengineering

• P. Dunnill

Synaptic connections

• Jeremy Brockes

Fourier transform NMR spectroscopy

• R. E. Richards

Machiavellian weed

• Alan D. Courtney

Laser applications

• I. J. Spalding

Extraversion–introversion paradigm

• H. Gwynne Jones

Solar flares

• J. C. Brown

Biological effects of environmental agents

• F. De Matteis

Secrets of the Universe still locked up

• John Gribbin

Ecophysiology

• P. D. Moore

Newly on the Market

Announcements