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2008, volume 451, articles 7182

Do animal personalities emerge? pp. E8-E9

François Massol and Pierre-André Crochet

Wolf et al. reply pp. E9-E10

Max Wolf, G. Sander van Doorn, Olof Leimar and Franz J. Weissing

Journal club pp. 1033-1033

Eric J. Nestler

Animal-rights activists invade Europe pp. 1034-1035

Geoff Brumfiel

Acclaimed photo was faked pp. 1035-1035

Jane Qiu

The aftermath of independence pp. 1036-1036

Quirin Schiermeier

Neglected diseases get vaccine research boost pp. 1037-1037

Alison Abbott

Snapshot: 'Doomsday vault' opens pp. 1037-1037

Michael Hopkin

Iran refuses to cooperate with atomic agency pp. 1038-1038

Declan Butler

First chapter of book of life goes live pp. 1038-1038

Emma Marris

Meat meter measures marbled muscles pp. 1039-1039

David Cyranoski

English grants under review pp. 1039-1039

Daniel Cressey

Malaria: The end of the beginning pp. 1042-1046

Brendan Maher

Malaria: The big push pp. 1047-1049

Michael Hopkin

Political debate: science will be the loser pp. 1050-1050

Daniel Sarewitz

Political debate: it is a risk, but one that's worth taking pp. 1050-1050

Neal Lane

Government subsidized by academia on conservation pp. 1050-1050

Philip Wheeler

Celebrations for Darwin downplay Wallace's role pp. 1050-1050

George W. Beccaloni and Vincent S. Smith

The billion-dollar malaria moment pp. 1051-1052

Mark Grabowsky

Pest friends in the Cretaceous pp. 1053-1053

Karen Chin

Shots of Silicon Valley pp. 1054-1054

Fred Turner

Fly image wins photo prize pp. 1054-1054

Joanne Baker

Biopiracy started with a bounce pp. 1055-1055

Michael Gollin

A feverish imagination pp. 1056-1056

Martin Kemp

Hidden treasures: Eise Eisinga Planetarium pp. 1057-1057

Alison Abbot

When authorship met authenticity pp. 1058-1059

Adrian Johns

The rhythm of the rains pp. 1062-1063

Jonathan Overpeck and Julia Cole

A hold on plant meiosis pp. 1063-1064

Peter J. van Dijk

Quinine steps back in time pp. 1065-1066

Philip Ball

Crossing over to drug resistance pp. 1066-1067

David M. Livingston and Daniel P. Silver

To the rich man the spoils pp. 1067-1068

R. Kerry Turner and Brendan Fisher

Autophagy fights disease through cellular self-digestion pp. 1069-1075

Noboru Mizushima, Beth Levine, Ana Maria Cuervo and Daniel J. Klionsky

Proteomic analysis of active multiple sclerosis lesions reveals therapeutic targets pp. 1076-1081

May H. Han, Sun-Il Hwang, Dolly B. Roy, Deborah H. Lundgren, Jordan V. Price, Shalina S. Ousman, Guy Haskin Fernald, Bruce Gerlitz, William H. Robinson, Sergio E. Baranzini, Brian W. Grinnell, Cedric S. Raine, Raymond A. Sobel, David K. Han and Lawrence Steinman

A minimum column density of 1 g cm-2 for massive star formation pp. 1082-1084

Mark R. Krumholz and Christopher F. McKee

Designing metallic glass matrix composites with high toughness and tensile ductility pp. 1085-1089

Douglas C. Hofmann, Jin-Yoo Suh, Aaron Wiest, Gang Duan, Mary-Laura Lind, Marios D. Demetriou and William L. Johnson

Millennial- and orbital-scale changes in the East Asian monsoon over the past 224,000 years pp. 1090-1093

Yongjin Wang, Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards, Xinggong Kong, Xiaohua Shao, Shitao Chen, Jiangyin Wu, Xiouyang Jiang, Xianfeng Wang and Zhisheng An

Arc-parallel flow in the mantle wedge beneath Costa Rica and Nicaragua pp. 1094-1097

Kaj Hoernle, David L. Abt, Karen M. Fischer, Holly Nichols, Folkmar Hauff, Geoffrey A. Abers, Paul van den Bogaard, Ken Heydolph, Guillermo Alvarado, Marino Protti and Wilfried Strauch

Scaling laws of marine predator search behaviour pp. 1098-1102

David W. Sims, Emily J. Southall, Nicolas E. Humphries, Graeme C. Hays, Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Jonathan W. Pitchford, Alex James, Mohammed Z. Ahmed, Andrew S. Brierley, Mark A. Hindell, David Morritt, Michael K. Musyl, David Righton, Emily L. C. Shepard, Victoria J. Wearmouth, Rory P. Wilson, Matthew J. Witt and Julian D. Metcalfe

Selection overrides gene flow to break down maladaptive mimicry pp. 1103-1106

George R. Harper and David W. Pfennig

Facultative cheater mutants reveal the genetic complexity of cooperation in social amoebae pp. 1107-1110

Lorenzo A. Santorelli, Christopher R. L. Thompson, Elizabeth Villegas, Jessica Svetz, Christopher Dinh, Anup Parikh, Richard Sucgang, Adam Kuspa, Joan E. Strassmann, David C. Queller and Gad Shaulsky

Resistance to therapy caused by intragenic deletion in BRCA2 pp. 1111-1115

Stacey L. Edwards, Rachel Brough, Christopher J. Lord, Rachael Natrajan, Radost Vatcheva, Douglas A. Levine, Jeff Boyd, Jorge S. Reis-Filho and Alan Ashworth

Secondary mutations as a mechanism of cisplatin resistance in BRCA2-mutated cancers pp. 1116-1120

Wataru Sakai, Elizabeth M. Swisher, Beth Y. Karlan, Mukesh K. Agarwal, Jake Higgins, Cynthia Friedman, Emily Villegas, Céline Jacquemont, Daniel J. Farrugia, Fergus J. Couch, Nicole Urban and Toshiyasu Taniguchi

Gamete formation without meiosis in Arabidopsis pp. 1121-1124

Maruthachalam Ravi, Mohan P. A. Marimuthu and Imran Siddiqi

Regulation of progenitor cell proliferation and granulocyte function by microRNA-223 pp. 1125-1129

Jonathan B. Johnnidis, Marian H. Harris, Robert T. Wheeler, Sandra Stehling-Sun, Michael H. Lam, Oktay Kirak, Thijn R. Brummelkamp, Mark D. Fleming and Fernando D. Camargo

Backbone structure of the infectious ε15 virus capsid revealed by electron cryomicroscopy pp. 1130-1134

Wen Jiang, Matthew L. Baker, Joanita Jakana, Peter R. Weigele, Jonathan King and Wah Chiu

Is science really undergoing globalization? pp. 1135-1135

Gene Russo

Felipe Pereira, distinguished professor, School of Energy Resources and Department of Mathematics, University of Wyoming, Laramie pp. 1136-1136

Virginia Gewin

Neuroscience in the developing world pp. 1136-1136

Paul Smaglik

Role models pp. 1136-1136

Amanda Goh

Meeting with Max pp. 1138-1138

John Gilbey

2008, volume 451, articles 7181

Is recent major hurricane activity normal? pp. E5-E5

Urs Neu

Nyberg et al. reply pp. E6-E6

Johan Nyberg, Björn A. Malmgren, Amos Winter, Mark R. Jury, K. Halimeda Kilbourne and Terrence M. Quinn

Erratum: Genotyping of Rhesus SCNT pluripotent stem cell lines pp. E7-E7

David S. Cram, Bi Song and Alan O. Trounson

Journal club pp. 869-869

Genevieve Almouzni

Experts suspicious of 'splatellite' plan pp. 870-870

Geoff Brumfiel

Check your GPS at the border pp. 871-871

David Cyranoski

An indifference to boundaries pp. 872-873

John Whitfield

Scientists urged to plan for the next US president pp. 875-875

Alexandra Witze

On the origin of deleterious mutations pp. 876-876

Erika Check Hayden

Energy crisis upsets platinum market pp. 877-877

Jeff Tollefson

Solar power: A flight to remember pp. 884-886

Vicki Cleave

Non-traditional publishing choices can enrich science pp. 887-887

Zeba Wunderlich and Kishore Kuchibhotla

Pakistan needs a powerful ethics and integrity body pp. 887-887

Muhammad Mukhtar and Zahida Parveen

Albedo-watching satellite needed to monitor change pp. 887-887

Francisco P. J. Valero and Robert J. Charlson

Citations in supplementary information are invisible pp. 887-887

Frank Seeber

Architectural healing pp. 889-890

D. Kirk Hamilton

Quest for extraterrestrial life pp. 890-890

Bruce Jakosky

Cultures in the capital pp. 891-891

Jane Rees

Text book for space shakers pp. 891-892

Neil Turok

Time revisited pp. 892-892

Joanne Baker

Ecology for bankers pp. 893-894

Robert M. May, Simon A. Levin and George Sugihara

The gift of healing pp. 895-896

Justin L. Mynar and Takuzo Aida

Bridge over troublesome plastids pp. 896-897

Patrick J. Keeling

Solid awakening pp. 897-898

Leonard R. MacGillivray

Emerging diseases go global pp. 898-899

Mark E. J. Woolhouse

Slab sliding away pp. 899-900

Scott King

DNA versus membrane pp. 900-901

Ling Juan Wu and Jeff Errington

Cardiovascular disease pp. 903-903

Michael Basson

Translating molecular discoveries into new therapies for atherosclerosis pp. 904-913

Daniel J. Rader and Alan Daugherty

Triggers, targets and treatments for thrombosis pp. 914-918

Nigel Mackman

Tackling heart failure in the twenty-first century pp. 919-928

James O. Mudd and David A. Kass

A genetic framework for improving arrhythmia therapy pp. 929-936

Björn C. Knollmann and Dan M. Roden

Stem-cell therapy for cardiac disease pp. 937-942

Vincent F. M. Segers and Richard T. Lee

The developmental genetics of congenital heart disease pp. 943-948

Benoit G. Bruneau

The search for new cardiovascular biomarkers pp. 949-952

Robert E. Gerszten and Thomas J. Wang

Imaging of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease pp. 953-957

Javier Sanz and Zahi A. Fayad

A photosynthetic alveolate closely related to apicomplexan parasites pp. 959-963

Robert B. Moore, Miroslav Oborník, Jan Janouškovec, Tomáš Chrudimský, Marie Vancová, David H. Green, Simon W. Wright, Noel W. Davies, Christopher J. S. Bolch, Kirsten Heimann, Jan Šlapeta, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, John M. Logsdon and Dee A. Carter

Phosphoinositide signalling links O-GlcNAc transferase to insulin resistance pp. 964-969

Xiaoyong Yang, Pat P. Ongusaha, Philip D. Miles, Joyce C. Havstad, Fengxue Zhang, W. Venus So, Jeffrey E. Kudlow, Robert H. Michell, Jerrold M. Olefsky, Seth J. Field and Ronald M. Evans

Energetic neutral atoms as the explanation for the high-velocity hydrogen around HD 209458b pp. 970-972

M. Holmström, A. Ekenbäck, F. Selsis, T. Penz, H. Lammer and P. Wurz

Martian stepped-delta formation by rapid water release pp. 973-976

Erin R. Kraal, Maurits van Dijk, George Postma and Maarten G. Kleinhans

Self-healing and thermoreversible rubber from supramolecular assembly pp. 977-980

Philippe Cordier, François Tournilhac, Corinne Soulié-Ziakovic and Ludwik Leibler

Evidence of lower-mantle slab penetration phases in plate motions pp. 981-984

Saskia Goes, Fabio A. Capitanio and Gabriele Morra

A fundamental avian wing-stroke provides a new perspective on the evolution of flight pp. 985-989

Kenneth P. Dial, Brandon E. Jackson and Paolo Segre

Global trends in emerging infectious diseases pp. 990-993

Kate E. Jones, Nikkita G. Patel, Marc A. Levy, Adam Storeygard, Deborah Balk, John L. Gittleman and Peter Daszak

Proportionally more deleterious genetic variation in European than in African populations pp. 994-997

Kirk E. Lohmueller, Amit R. Indap, Steffen Schmidt, Adam R. Boyko, Ryan D. Hernandez, Melissa J. Hubisz, John J. Sninsky, Thomas J. White, Shamil R. Sunyaev, Rasmus Nielsen, Andrew G. Clark and Carlos D. Bustamante

Genotype, haplotype and copy-number variation in worldwide human populations pp. 998-1003

Mattias Jakobsson, Sonja W. Scholz, Paul Scheet, J. Raphael Gibbs, Jenna M. VanLiere, Hon-Chung Fung, Zachary A. Szpiech, James H. Degnan, Kai Wang, Rita Guerreiro, Jose M. Bras, Jennifer C. Schymick, Dena G. Hernandez, Bryan J. Traynor, Javier Simon-Sanchez, Mar Matarin, Angela Britton, Joyce van de Leemput, Ian Rafferty, Maja Bucan, Howard M. Cann, John A. Hardy, Noah A. Rosenberg and Andrew B. Singleton

A role for adult TLX-positive neural stem cells in learning and behaviour pp. 1004-1007

Chun-Li Zhang, Yuhua Zou, Weimin He, Fred H. Gage and Ronald M. Evans

HIF-independent regulation of VEGF and angiogenesis by the transcriptional coactivator PGC-1α pp. 1008-1012

Zoltan Arany, Shi-Yin Foo, Yanhong Ma, Jorge L. Ruas, Archana Bommi-Reddy, Geoffrey Girnun, Marcus Cooper, Dina Laznik, Jessica Chinsomboon, Shamina M. Rangwala, Kwan Hyuck Baek, Anthony Rosenzweig and Bruce M. Spiegelman

A PtdIns4,5P2-regulated nuclear poly(A) polymerase controls expression of select mRNAs pp. 1013-1017

David L. Mellman, Michael L. Gonzales, Chunhua Song, Christy A. Barlow, Ping Wang, Christina Kendziorski and Richard A. Anderson

Formation and branch migration of Holliday junctions mediated by eukaryotic recombinases pp. 1018-1021

Yasuto Murayama, Yumiko Kurokawa, Kouta Mayanagi and Hiroshi Iwasaki

Erratum: The nonlinear Fano effect pp. 1022-1022

M. Kroner, A. O. Govorov, S. Remi, B. Biedermann, S. Seidl, A. Badolato, P. M. Petroff, W. Zhang, R. Barbour, B. D. Gerardot, R. J. Warburton and K. Karrai

Erratum: Roquin represses autoimmunity by limiting inducible T-cell co-stimulator messenger RNA pp. 1022-1022

Di Yu, Andy Hee-Meng Tan, Xin Hu, Vicki Athanasopoulos, Nicholas Simpson, Diego G. Silva, Andreas Hutloff, Keith M. Giles, Peter J. Leedman, Kong Peng Lam, Christopher C. Goodnow and Carola G. Vinuesa

Erratum: Systems biology approaches identify ATF3 as a negative regulator of Toll-like receptor 4 pp. 1022-1022

Mark Gilchrist, Vesteinn Thorsson, Bin Li, Alistair G. Rust, Martin Korb, Jared C. Roach, Kathleen Kennedy, Tsonwin Hai, Hamid Bolouri and Alan Aderem

Erratum: Depth of a strong jovian jet from a planetary-scale disturbance driven by storms pp. 1022-1022

A. Sánchez-Lavega, G. S. Orton, R. Hueso, E. García-Melendo, S. Pérez-Hoyos, A. Simon-Miller, J. F. Rojas, J. M. Gómez, P. Yanamandra-Fisher, L. Fletcher, J. Joels, J. Kemerer, J. Hora, E. Karkoschka, I. de Pater, M. H. Wong, P. S. Marcus, N. Pinilla-Alonso, F. Carvalho, C. Go, D. Parker, M. Salway, M. Valimberti, A. Wesley and Z. Pujic

Introducing the careers network from Naturejobs pp. 1023-1023

Gene Russo

The new networking nexus pp. 1024-1025

Virginia Gewin

Josephine Briggs, director, US National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland pp. 1026-1026

Virginia Gewin

Take a turn as a rotator pp. 1026-1026

Ted Agres

Our strange fellowship pp. 1026-1026

Aliza le Roux

Ever pp. 1028-1028

Jeff Crook

2008, volume 451, articles 7180

Nitrogen saturation and net ecosystem production pp. E1-E1

An De Schrijver, Kris Verheyen, Jan Mertens, Jeroen Staelens, Karen Wuyts and Bart Muys

Ecologically implausible carbon response? pp. E1-E3

Wim de Vries, Svein Solberg, Matthias Dobbertin, Hubert Sterba, Daniel Laubhahn, Gert Jan Reinds, Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Per Gundersen and Mark A. Sutton

Magnani et al. reply pp. E3-E4

Federico Magnani, Maurizio Mencuccini, Marco Borghetti, Frank Berninger, Sylvain Delzon, Achim Grelle, Pertti Hari, Paul G. Jarvis, Pasi Kolari, Andrew S. Kowalski, Harry Lankreijer, Beverly E. Law, Anders Lindroth, Denis Loustau, Giovanni Manca, John B. Moncrieff, Vanessa Tedeschi, Riccardo Valentini and John Grace

Journal club pp. 749-749

John Shepherd

Atomic agency to give verdict on Iran pp. 750-751

Declan Butler

Chinese astronomers look to Antarctic pp. 752-752

Rachel Courtland

Natural gas back in favour with US power companies pp. 753-753

Jeff Tollefson

Lessons from the dark side pp. 755-755

Alison Abbott

From Russia with scintillation pp. 756-757

Geoff Brumfiel

Profile: Meet Exhibit I pp. 763-765

Erika Check Hayden

Scientific publishing: Identity crisis pp. 766-767

Jane Qiu

Students find out that bacteria can cheat too pp. 768-768

Nel C. Venzon

European adventures did nothing for people of Egypt pp. 768-768

Ninad Bondre

Funding cuts leave 'golden era' looking tarnished pp. 768-768

Phil Bland

Future stars of the lab need realistic role models pp. 768-768

Sarah C. Hubbard

Freeing more carbon will accelerate global warming pp. 768-768

Neil Wilson

A close look at conflict pp. 769-770

Margo Wilson and Martin Daly

The invisible revolution pp. 770-771

Vincent Dusastre

Genomes evolve, but how? pp. 771-772

Axel Meyer

Essence of creation pp. 771-771

Isabelle Kaufmann

Neural networking in Manhattan pp. 772-772

Giovanni Frazzetto

Static in motion pp. 773-774

Troy Shinbrot and Hans J. Herrmann

A first for bats pp. 774-775

John Speakman

A story of singular degeneracy pp. 776-777

Edward P. J. van den Heuvel

Cohesin branches out pp. 777-778

Frank Uhlmann

The art of splitting water pp. 778-779

Thomas J. Meyer

Darwin in the fossils pp. 779-780

Andrew P. Hendry

M. Judah Folkman (1933–2008) pp. 781-781

Michael Klagsbrun and Marsha A. Moses

The genome of the choanoflagellate Monosiga brevicollis and the origin of metazoans pp. 783-788

Nicole King, M. Jody Westbrook, Susan L. Young, Alan Kuo, Monika Abedin, Jarrod Chapman, Stephen Fairclough, Uffe Hellsten, Yoh Isogai, Ivica Letunic, Michael Marr, David Pincus, Nicholas Putnam, Antonis Rokas, Kevin J. Wright, Richard Zuzow, William Dirks, Matthew Good, David Goodstein, Derek Lemons, Wanqing Li, Jessica B. Lyons, Andrea Morris, Scott Nichols, Daniel J. Richter, Asaf Salamov, Sequencing Jgi, Peer Bork, Wendell A. Lim, Gerard Manning, W. Todd Miller, William McGinnis, Harris Shapiro, Robert Tjian, Igor V. Grigoriev and Daniel Rokhsar

Dual control of nuclear EIN3 by bifurcate MAPK cascades in C2H4 signalling pp. 789-795

Sang-Dong Yoo, Young-Hee Cho, Guillaume Tena, Yan Xiong and Jen Sheen

Cohesin mediates transcriptional insulation by CCCTC-binding factor pp. 796-801

Kerstin S. Wendt, Keisuke Yoshida, Takehiko Itoh, Masashige Bando, Birgit Koch, Erika Schirghuber, Shuichi Tsutsumi, Genta Nagae, Ko Ishihara, Tsuyoshi Mishiro, Kazuhide Yahata, Fumio Imamoto, Hiroyuki Aburatani, Mitsuyoshi Nakao, Naoko Imamoto, Kazuhiro Maeshima, Katsuhiko Shirahige and Jan-Michael Peters

Discovery of the progenitor of the type Ia supernova 2007on pp. 802-804

Rasmus Voss and Gijs Nelemans

Giant magneto-elastic coupling in multiferroic hexagonal manganites pp. 805-808

Seongsu Lee, A. Pirogov, Misun Kang, Kwang-Hyun Jang, M. Yonemura, T. Kamiyama, S.-W. Cheong, F. Gozzo, Namsoo Shin, H. Kimura, Y. Noda and J.-G. Park

Microfibre–nanowire hybrid structure for energy scavenging pp. 809-813

Yong Qin, Xudong Wang and Zhong Lin Wang

Sound velocities of majorite garnet and the composition of the mantle transition region pp. 814-817

T. Irifune, Y. Higo, T. Inoue, Y. Kono, H. Ohfuji and K. Funakoshi

Primitive Early Eocene bat from Wyoming and the evolution of flight and echolocation pp. 818-821

Nancy B. Simmons, Kevin L. Seymour, Jörg Habersetzer and Gregg F. Gunnell

Chaos in a long-term experiment with a plankton community pp. 822-825

Elisa Benincà, Jef Huisman, Reinhard Heerkloss, Klaus D. Jöhnk, Pedro Branco, Egbert H. Van Nes, Marten Scheffer and Stephen P. Ellner

Removal of phospho-head groups of membrane lipids immobilizes voltage sensors of K+ channels pp. 826-829

Yanping Xu, Yajamana Ramu and Zhe Lu

A modular switch for spatial Ca2+ selectivity in the calmodulin regulation of CaV channels pp. 830-834

Ivy E. Dick, Michael R. Tadross, Haoya Liang, Lai Hock Tay, Wanjun Yang and David T. Yue

Co-option of a default secretory pathway for plant immune responses pp. 835-840

Chian Kwon, Christina Neu, Simone Pajonk, Hye Sup Yun, Ulrike Lipka, Matt Humphry, Stefan Bau, Marco Straus, Mark Kwaaitaal, Heike Rampelt, Farid El Kasmi, Gerd Jürgens, Jane Parker, Ralph Panstruga, Volker Lipka and Paul Schulze-Lefert

Two levels of protection for the B cell genome during somatic hypermutation pp. 841-845

Man Liu, Jamie L. Duke, Daniel J. Richter, Carola G. Vinuesa, Christopher C. Goodnow, Steven H. Kleinstein and David G. Schatz

The structural basis of protein acetylation by the p300/CBP transcriptional coactivator pp. 846-850

Xin Liu, Ling Wang, Kehao Zhao, Paul R. Thompson, Yousang Hwang, Ronen Marmorstein and Philip A. Cole

The X-ray crystal structure of RNA polymerase from Archaea pp. 851-854

Akira Hirata, Brianna J. Klein and Katsuhiko S. Murakami

In search of common ground pp. 856-858

Nathan Blow

Graduate students strive to unionize, to their advantage and potentially their detriment pp. 861-861

Gene Russo

Alex Dehgan, senior scientist and policy adviser, US Department of State, Washington DC pp. 862-862

Virginia Gewin

Lab links with southern states pp. 862-862

Virginia Gewin

Serial postdoc pp. 862-862

Jon Yearsley

The champagne award pp. 864-864

Gregory Benford

2008, volume 451, articles 7179

Journal club pp. 609-609

Gerald Crabtree

Bush asks for more physics - again pp. 610-612

Eric Hand, Meredith Wadman, Rachel Courtland, Mitch Waldrop and Jeff Tollefson

The Moon: destination or distraction? pp. 612-613

Eric Hand

Carbon burial buried pp. 613-613

Jeff Tollefson

Botanical identities pp. 616-616

Heidi Ledford

'Monogamous' vole in love-rat shock pp. 617-617

Heidi Ledford

A debatable proposition pp. 621-621

David Goldston

Stem cells: Stuck in New Jersey pp. 622-626

Meredith Wadman

Law should recognize value of interspecies embryos pp. 627-627

Justin C. St John, Lyle Armstrong, Stephen L. Minger and Keith H. S. Campbell

Italian neuroscientists are ready to start the debate pp. 627-627

Fiorenzo Conti and Gilberto Corbellini

Darwin's legacy makes its mark in Croatia pp. 627-627

Jasmina Muzinic

JAMA and the mountebank pp. 628-629

Michael Shermer

Multi-dimensional lives pp. 629-629

Mark Ronan

Capturing colours of times past pp. 630-630

Laura Spinney

Diagnosing deep similarity in nature pp. 631-631

Michael Coates

Fleeting fabrics pp. 631-631

Joanne Baker

Darwin's enduring legacy pp. 632-634

Kevin Padian

Ancient bacteria liked it hot pp. 635-636

Manolo Gouy and Marc Chaussidon

Update on 3D displays pp. 636-637

Joseph W. Perry

50 & 100 Years Ago pp. 637-637

B. Baden-Powell

Alzheimer's in real time pp. 638-639

Eliezer Masliah

A hard statistical view pp. 639-640

Bart Selman

Who shouldn't be your daddy pp. 640-641

Patrick C. Phillips

Bert Bolin (1925–2008) pp. 642-642

Bob Watson

Horizons pp. 643-643

Philip Campbell

A systematic look at an old problem pp. 644-647

Thomas B. L. Kirkwood

Chemistry for everyone pp. 648-651

Peter Murray-Rust

Building better batteries pp. 652-657

M. Armand and J.-M. Tarascon

Evolution of anatomy and gene control pp. 658-663

Georgy Koentges

Wiring up quantum systems pp. 664-669

R. J. Schoelkopf and S. M. Girvin

Towards a molecular understanding of shape selectivity pp. 671-678

Berend Smit and Theo L. M. Maesen

The dynamics of measles in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 679-684

Matthew J. Ferrari, Rebecca F. Grais, Nita Bharti, Andrew J. K. Conlan, Ottar N. Bjørnstad, Lara J. Wolfson, Philippe J. Guerin, Ali Djibo and Bryan T. Grenfell

Slow dust in Enceladus' plume from condensation and wall collisions in tiger stripe fractures pp. 685-688

Jürgen Schmidt, Nikolai Brilliantov, Frank Spahn and Sascha Kempf

Phase diagram of a two-component Fermi gas with resonant interactions pp. 689-693

Yong-il Shin, Christian H. Schunck, André Schirotzek and Wolfgang Ketterle

An updatable holographic three-dimensional display pp. 694-698

Savaş Tay, P.-A. Blanche, R. Voorakaranam, A. V. Tunç, W. Lin, S. Rokutanda, T. Gu, D. Flores, P. Wang, G. Li, P. St Hilaire, J. Thomas, R. A. Norwood, M. Yamamoto and N. Peyghambarian

Geological record of fluid flow and seismogenesis along an erosive subducting plate boundary pp. 699-703

Paola Vannucchi, Francesca Remitti and Giuseppe Bettelli

Palaeotemperature trend for Precambrian life inferred from resurrected proteins pp. 704-707

Eric A. Gaucher, Sridhar Govindarajan and Omjoy K. Ganesh

Bacterial carbon processing by generalist species in the coastal ocean pp. 708-711

Xiaozhen Mou, Shulei Sun, Robert A. Edwards, Robert E. Hodson and Mary Ann Moran

Loss of plant species after chronic low-level nitrogen deposition to prairie grasslands pp. 712-715

Christopher M. Clark and David Tilman

The coming acceleration of global population ageing pp. 716-719

Wolfgang Lutz, Warren Sanderson and Sergei Scherbov

Rapid appearance and local toxicity of amyloid-β plaques in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease pp. 720-724

Melanie Meyer-Luehmann, Tara L. Spires-Jones, Claudia Prada, Monica Garcia-Alloza, Alix de Calignon, Anete Rozkalne, Jessica Koenigsknecht-Talboo, David M. Holtzman, Brian J. Bacskai and Bradley T. Hyman

TANK-binding kinase-1 delineates innate and adaptive immune responses to DNA vaccines pp. 725-729

Ken J. Ishii, Tatsukata Kawagoe, Shohei Koyama, Kosuke Matsui, Himanshu Kumar, Taro Kawai, Satoshi Uematsu, Osamu Takeuchi, Fumihiko Takeshita, Cevayir Coban and Shizuo Akira

Drosophila Pgc protein inhibits P-TEFb recruitment to chromatin in primordial germ cells pp. 730-733

Kazuko Hanyu-Nakamura, Hiroko Sonobe-Nojima, Akie Tanigawa, Paul Lasko and Akira Nakamura

Cell cycle control of centromeric repeat transcription and heterochromatin assembly pp. 734-737

Ee Sin Chen, Ke Zhang, Estelle Nicolas, Hugh P. Cam, Martin Zofall and Shiv I. S. Grewal

What do you look for in a good workplace? How about free scuba-diving lessons? pp. 739-739

Gene Russo

Ready, set, hire pp. 740-741

Genevive Bjorn

Eva Feldman, director, Taubman Medical Research Institute, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan pp. 742-742

Virginia Gewin

Japanese postdocs seek their path pp. 742-742

Toshiyuki Misu and Akira Horoiwa

Fruit medley pp. 742-742

Zachary Lippman

Chess's game pp. 744-744

Nye Joell Hardy

2008, volume 451, articles 7178

Journal club pp. 503-503

Nicholas Katsanis

Europe spells out action plan for emissions targets pp. 504-505

Quirin Schiermeier

Canada abolishes its national science adviser pp. 505-505

Hannah Hoag

Cash for Russian nuclear scientists criticized pp. 506-506

Eric Hand

Snapshot: Search for Higgs primed to start pp. 507-507

Geoff Brumfiel

Funding freeze shakes Russia's prodigals pp. 507-507

Quirin Schiermeier

New York to police air monitoring pp. 508-508

Rachel Courtland

Reviewer leaked Avandia study to drug firm pp. 509-509

Brian Vastag

Fossil reptiles mired in controversy pp. 510-510

Rex Dalton

Human behaviour: Killer instincts pp. 512-515

Dan Jones

Genome studies: Genetics by numbers pp. 516-518

Monya Baker

The action of enhancers can lead to addiction pp. 520-520

Nora D. Volkow and James M. Swanson

Drugs can be used to treat more than disease pp. 520-520

Nick Bostrom

Low dose of alertness drug counters 'family fatigue' pp. 520-521

Charles Eaton

Drugging unruly children is a method of social control pp. 521-521

Steven Rose

Humans have always tried to improve their condition pp. 521-521

John Harris and Muireann Quigley

Policy must recognize drug impact on different sectors pp. 521-521

Robin Pierce and Judy Illes

Rationality is a better basis for ethics than repugnance pp. 521-521

Martha J. Farah

Trinity says: Let's talk pp. 522-522

Michael John Gorman

Van Allen remembered as belts turn 50 pp. 523-523

William E. Burrows

Starvation: crime and punishment pp. 524-525

Michael Sargent

Ancient orders of nature pp. 525-525

Martin Kemp

The University History Museum in Pavia pp. 526-526

Alison Abbott

Some like it hot (and some don't) pp. 527-528

David Crews and James J. Bull

Golden handshake pp. 528-529

John C. Crocker

Dying to hold you pp. 530-531

Kimon Doukoumetzidis and Michael O. Hengartner

An ancient view of acceleration pp. 531-532

Michael A. Strauss

Coughing up flu's proton channels pp. 532-533

Christopher Miller

Nanowires' display of potential pp. 533-534

Hagen Klauk

Predicting expression patterns from regulatory sequence in Drosophila segmentation pp. 535-540

Eran Segal, Tali Raveh-Sadka, Mark Schroeder, Ulrich Unnerstall and Ulrike Gaul

A test of the nature of cosmic acceleration using galaxy redshift distortions pp. 541-544

L. Guzzo, M. Pierleoni, B. Meneux, E. Branchini, O. Le Fèvre, C. Marinoni, B. Garilli, J. Blaizot, G. De Lucia, A. Pollo, H. J. McCracken, D. Bottini, V. Le Brun, D. Maccagni, J. P. Picat, R. Scaramella, M. Scodeggio, L. Tresse, G. Vettolani, A. Zanichelli, C. Adami, S. Arnouts, S. Bardelli, M. Bolzonella, A. Bongiorno, A. Cappi, S. Charlot, P. Ciliegi, T. Contini, O. Cucciati, S. de la Torre, K. Dolag, S. Foucaud, P. Franzetti, I. Gavignaud, O. Ilbert, A. Iovino, F. Lamareille, B. Marano, A. Mazure, P. Memeo, R. Merighi, L. Moscardini, S. Paltani, R. Pellò, E. Perez-Montero, L. Pozzetti, M. Radovich, D. Vergani, G. Zamorani and E. Zucca

Origin of morphotropic phase boundaries in ferroelectrics pp. 545-548

Muhtar Ahart, Maddury Somayazulu, R. E. Cohen, P. Ganesh, Przemyslaw Dera, Ho-kwang Mao, Russell J. Hemley, Yang Ren, Peter Liermann and Zhigang Wu

DNA-guided crystallization of colloidal nanoparticles pp. 549-552

Dmytro Nykypanchuk, Mathew M. Maye, Daniel van der Lelie and Oleg Gang

DNA-programmable nanoparticle crystallization pp. 553-556

Sung Yong Park, Abigail K. R. Lytton-Jean, Byeongdu Lee, Steven Weigand, George C. Schatz and Chad A. Mirkin

Large contribution of sea surface warming to recent increase in Atlantic hurricane activity pp. 557-560

Mark A. Saunders and Adam S. Lea

A great earthquake doublet and seismic stress transfer cycle in the central Kuril islands pp. 561-565

Charles J. Ammon, Hiroo Kanamori and Thorne Lay

The adaptive significance of temperature-dependent sex determination in a reptile pp. 566-568

D. A. Warner and R. Shine

Lethargus is a Caenorhabditis elegans sleep-like state pp. 569-572

David M. Raizen, John E. Zimmerman, Matthew H. Maycock, Uyen D. Ta, Young-jai You, Meera V. Sundaram and Allan I. Pack

NLRX1 is a regulator of mitochondrial antiviral immunity pp. 573-577

Chris B. Moore, Daniel T. Bergstralh, Joseph A. Duncan, Yu Lei, Thomas E. Morrison, Albert G. Zimmermann, Mary A. Accavitti-Loper, Victoria J. Madden, Lijun Sun, Zhengmao Ye, John D. Lich, Mark T. Heise, Zhijian Chen and Jenny P-Y. Ting

Macrophage migration inhibitory factor stimulates AMP-activated protein kinase in the ischaemic heart pp. 578-582

Edward J. Miller, Ji Li, Lin Leng, Courtney McDonald, Toshiya Atsumi, Richard Bucala and Lawrence H. Young

DBC1 is a negative regulator of SIRT1 pp. 583-586

Ja-Eun Kim, Junjie Chen and Zhenkun Lou

Negative regulation of the deacetylase SIRT1 by DBC1 pp. 587-590

Wenhui Zhao, Jan-Philipp Kruse, Yi Tang, Sung Yun Jung, Jun Qin and Wei Gu

Structure and mechanism of the M2 proton channel of influenza A virus pp. 591-595

Jason R. Schnell and James J. Chou

Structural basis for the function and inhibition of an influenza virus proton channel pp. 596-599

Amanda L. Stouffer, Rudresh Acharya, David Salom, Anna S. Levine, Luigi Di Costanzo, Cinque S. Soto, Valentina Tereshko, Vikas Nanda, Steven Stayrook and William F. DeGrado

Retraction Note: Anti-apoptotic function of a microRNA encoded by the HSV-1 latency-associated transcript pp. 600-600

A. Gupta, J. J. Gartner, P. Sethupathy, A. G. Hatzigeorgiou and N. W. Fraser

Prospects pp. 601-601

Gene Russo

Rolf-Dieter Heuer, director-general, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland pp. 602-602

Virginia Gewin

Singapore gears up for translation pp. 602-602

Ewen Callaway

Biopolis dreams pp. 602-602

Amanda Goh

Annie Webber pp. 604-604

Elizabeth Bear

'Normal' genes key to cancer growth pp. 615-615

Erika Check Hayden

2008, volume 451, articles 7177

Journal club pp. 377-377

Hidde Ploegh

International genome project launched pp. 378-379

Erika Check Hayden

How the world invests in R&D pp. 378-378

Rachel Courtland

Q&A: Larry Brilliant pp. 379-379

Declan Butler

Nuclear fuel: keeping it civil pp. 380-381

Jeff Tollefson

A very mysterious foundation pp. 382-382

Declan Butler

Creationists launch 'science' journal pp. 382-383

Geoff Brumfiel

Huge crystal baffles chemists pp. 383-383

Katharine Sanderson

Cellular memory hints at the origins of intelligence pp. 385-385

Philip Ball

Shattered illusions pp. 387-387

David Goldston

Virology: The battle within pp. 388-389

Melinda Wenner

Defence research: Still in the lead? pp. 390-393

Sharon Weinberger

Venezuelan students are campaigning for freedom pp. 395-395

Benjamin Scharifker

Independent institutes are being financially strangled pp. 395-395

Name and address supplied.

Government control has weakened universities pp. 395-395

Orlando Albornoz

Social sciences worst off as projects remain unfunded pp. 395-395

Jaime Requena

Grants awarded on the basis of political criteria pp. 395-395

Klaus Jaffe

A tale of two citations pp. 397-399

Mounir Errami and Harold Garner

Behind the scenes pp. 400-400

Henry Nicholls

Networking knowledge pp. 401-401

Richard Akerman

Parallel lives pp. 401-401

Joanne Baker

Science at Sundance pp. 402-402

Emma Marris

Revealing reptiles pp. 402-402

Ed Yong

How the change agent has changed pp. 403-404

Charles Herzfeld

Harvest of the century pp. 405-406

Emilio Mayorga

Virus kept on a leash pp. 407-408

Heinrich G. Göttlinger

Lilliputian light sticks pp. 408-409

Melissa Fardy and Peidong Yang

Under Jupiter's pulsing skin pp. 409-410

Kunio M. Sayanagi

Designer pores made easy pp. 410-411

Michael J. Zaworotko

Fighting fire with fire pp. 412-413

Daniel F. Voytas

Against the spread of the light pp. 413-413

Kishan Dholakia

The expanding world of small RNAs pp. 414-416

Helge Großhans and Witold Filipowicz

Catalytic C–H functionalization by metal carbenoid and nitrenoid insertion pp. 417-424

Huw M. L. Davies and James R. Manning

Tetherin inhibits retrovirus release and is antagonized by HIV-1 Vpu pp. 425-430

Stuart J. D. Neil, Trinity Zang and Paul D. Bieniasz

Host genome surveillance for retrotransposons by transposon-derived proteins pp. 431-436

Hugh P. Cam, Ken-ichi Noma, Hirotaka Ebina, Henry L. Levin and Shiv I. S. Grewal

Depth of a strong jovian jet from a planetary-scale disturbance driven by storms pp. 437-440

A. Sánchez-Lavega, G. S. Orton, R. Hueso, E. García-Melendo, S. Pérez-Hoyos, A. Simon-Miller, J. F. Rojas, J. M. Gómez, P. Yanamandra-Fisher, L. Fletcher, J. Joels, J. Kemerer, J. Hora, E. Karkoschka, I. de Pater, M. H. Wong, P. S. Marcus, N. Pinilla-Alonso, F. Carvalho, C. Go, D. Parker, M. Salway, M. Valimberti, A. Wesley and Z. Pujic

Optical pumping of a single hole spin in a quantum dot pp. 441-444

Brian D. Gerardot, Daniel Brunner, Paul A. Dalgarno, Patrik Öhberg, Stefan Seidl, Martin Kroner, Khaled Karrai, Nick G. Stoltz, Pierre M. Petroff and Richard J. Warburton

Emergent reduction of electronic state dimensionality in dense ordered Li-Be alloys pp. 445-448

Ji Feng, Richard G. Hennig, N. W. Ashcroft and Roald Hoffmann

Anthropogenically enhanced fluxes of water and carbon from the Mississippi River pp. 449-452

Peter A. Raymond, Neung-Hwan Oh, R. Eugene Turner and Whitney Broussard

Deformation and rupture of the oceanic crust may control growth of Hawaiian volcanoes pp. 453-456

Jean-Luc Got, Vadim Monteiller, Julien Monteux, Riad Hassani and Paul Okubo

Clusters of ant colonies and robust criticality in a tropical agroecosystem pp. 457-459

John Vandermeer, Ivette Perfecto and Stacy M. Philpott

Histone H2AX-dependent GABAA receptor regulation of stem cell proliferation pp. 460-464

Michael Andäng, Jens Hjerling-Leffler, Annalena Moliner, T. Kalle Lundgren, Gonçalo Castelo-Branco, Evanthia Nanou, Ester Pozas, Vitezslav Bryja, Sophie Halliez, Hiroshi Nishimaru, Johannes Wilbertz, Ernest Arenas, Martin Koltzenburg, Patrick Charnay, Abdeljabbar El Manira, Carlos F. Ibañez and Patrik Ernfors

Dscam and Sidekick proteins direct lamina-specific synaptic connections in vertebrate retina pp. 465-469

Masahito Yamagata and Joshua R. Sanes

Neurite arborization and mosaic spacing in the mouse retina require DSCAM pp. 470-474

Peter G. Fuerst, Amane Koizumi, Richard H. Masland and Robert W. Burgess

Coordinated regulation of Arabidopsis thaliana development by light and gibberellins pp. 475-479

Suhua Feng, Cristina Martinez, Giuliana Gusmaroli, Yu Wang, Junli Zhou, Feng Wang, Liying Chen, Lu Yu, Juan M. Iglesias-Pedraz, Stefan Kircher, Eberhard Schäfer, Xiangdong Fu, Liu-Min Fan and Xing Wang Deng

A molecular framework for light and gibberellin control of cell elongation pp. 480-484

Miguel de Lucas, Jean-Michel Davière, Mariana Rodríguez-Falcón, Mariela Pontin, Juan Manuel Iglesias-Pedraz, Séverine Lorrain, Christian Fankhauser, Miguel Angel Blázquez, Elena Titarenko and Salomé Prat

Distinct roles of the FliI ATPase and proton motive force in bacterial flagellar protein export pp. 485-488

Tohru Minamino and Keiichi Namba

Energy source of flagellar type III secretion pp. 489-492

Koushik Paul, Marc Erhardt, Takanori Hirano, David F. Blair and Kelly T. Hughes

More countires are opening their doors to scientific immigration pp. 493-493

Paul Smaglik

Argentina's pivotal moment pp. 494-496

Paul Smaglik

SuperB pp. 498-498

Janet Wright

2008, volume 451, articles 7176

Journal club pp. 227-227

Vivian G. Cheung

Funding edict for mission has NASA over a barrel pp. 228-229

Eric Hand and Alexandra Witze

Stem cells: a national project pp. 229-229

David Cyranoski

Nuclear war: the safety paradox pp. 230-231

Geoff Brumfiel

Europe to capture carbon pp. 232-232

Quirin Schiermeier

Novartis Foundation to close its doors pp. 233-233

Alison Abbott

Genomics sizes up pp. 234-234

Jane Qiu and Erika Check Hayden

Experimental cosmology: Cosmos in a bottle pp. 236-238

Geoff Brumfiel

Chemistry: Power play pp. 240-243

Brendan Borrell

Citations: rankings weigh against developing nations pp. 244-244

D. C. Mishra

Citations: poor practices by authors reduce their value pp. 244-244

Peter A. Todd and Richard J. Ladle

Glacier programme shows the value of 'ground truth' pp. 244-244

Mauri Pelto

Restricted access to fossils hinders claim confirmation pp. 244-244

Christopher P. Heesy

Twenty-first-century anatomy lesson pp. 245-245

Carl Zimmer

Interdisciplinary inspiration pp. 246-246

Alice W. Flaherty

Biography of a blockbuster text book pp. 247-247

Ken Arnold

Neurons of imitation pp. 249-250

Ofer Tchernichovski and Josh Wallman

Uranium gets a reaction pp. 250-251

James M. Boncella

Hay in a haystack pp. 252-253

Kevin M. Shannon and Michelle M. Le Beau

Elliptical view of galaxies past pp. 253-254

Andrea Cimatti

Cascade into clarity pp. 254-255

Fayyaz S. Sutterwala and Richard A. Flavell

Join the dots pp. 256-256

Galina Khitrova and H. M. Gibbs

Year of planet Earth pp. 257-257

Joanna Thorpe, Juliane Mössinger and John VanDecar

A tribe of jobbing ditchers pp. 258-260

Ted Nield

A planetary perspective on the deep Earth pp. 261-265

David J. Stevenson

Using seismic waves to image Earth's internal structure pp. 266-268

Barbara Romanowicz

Mineralogy at the extremes pp. 269-270

Thomas S. Duffy

Earthquake physics and real-time seismology pp. 271-273

Hiroo Kanamori

From landscapes into geological history pp. 274-276

Philip A. Allen

The rise of atmospheric oxygen pp. 277-278

Lee R. Kump

An early Cenozoic perspective on greenhouse warming and carbon-cycle dynamics pp. 279-283

James C. Zachos, Gerald R. Dickens and Richard E. Zeebe

Unlocking the mysteries of the ice ages pp. 284-285

Maureen E. Raymo and Peter Huybers

Ocean circulation in a warming climate pp. 286-288

J. R. Toggweiler and Joellen Russell

Terrestrial ecosystem carbon dynamics and climate feedbacks pp. 289-292

Martin Heimann and Markus Reichstein

An Earth-system perspective of the global nitrogen cycle pp. 293-296

Nicolas Gruber and James N. Galloway

A steep road to climate stabilization pp. 297-298

Pierre Friedlingstein

Small-scale cloud processes and climate pp. 299-300

Marcia B. Baker and Thomas Peter

Earth science and society pp. 301-303

Frank Press

Precise auditory–vocal mirroring in neurons for learned vocal communication pp. 305-310

J. F. Prather, S. Peters, S. Nowicki and R. Mooney

The nonlinear Fano effect pp. 311-314

M. Kroner, A. O. Govorov, S. Remi, B. Biedermann, S. Seidl, A. Badolato, P. M. Petroff, W. Zhang, R. Barbour, B. D. Gerardot, R. J. Warburton and K. Karrai

Reduction and selective oxo group silylation of the uranyl dication pp. 315-317

Polly L. Arnold, Dipti Patel, Claire Wilson and Jason B. Love

Programming biomolecular self-assembly pathways pp. 318-322

Peng Yin, Harry M. T. Choi, Colby R. Calvert and Niles A. Pierce

Net production of oxygen in the subtropical ocean pp. 323-325

Stephen C. Riser and Kenneth S. Johnson

Dry mantle transition zone inferred from the conductivity of wadsleyite and ringwoodite pp. 326-329

Takashi Yoshino, Geeth Manthilake, Takuya Matsuzaki and Tomoo Katsura

Reversal of pathological pain through specific spinal GABAA receptor subtypes pp. 330-334

Julia Knabl, Robert Witschi, Katharina Hösl, Heiko Reinold, Ulrike B. Zeilhofer, Seifollah Ahmadi, Johannes Brockhaus, Marina Sergejeva, Andreas Hess, Kay Brune, Jean-Marc Fritschy, Uwe Rudolph, Hanns Möhler and Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer

Identification of RPS14 as a 5q- syndrome gene by RNA interference screen pp. 335-339

Benjamin L. Ebert, Jennifer Pretz, Jocelyn Bosco, Cindy Y. Chang, Pablo Tamayo, Naomi Galili, Azra Raza, David E. Root, Eyal Attar, Steven R. Ellis and Todd R. Golub

Cyclic dermal BMP signalling regulates stem cell activation during hair regeneration pp. 340-344

Maksim V. Plikus, Julie Ann Mayer, Damon de la Cruz, Ruth E. Baker, Philip K. Maini, Robert Maxson and Cheng-Ming Chuong

Identification of cells initiating human melanomas pp. 345-349

Tobias Schatton, George F. Murphy, Natasha Y. Frank, Kazuhiro Yamaura, Ana Maria Waaga-Gasser, Martin Gasser, Qian Zhan, Stefan Jordan, Lyn M. Duncan, Carsten Weishaupt, Robert C. Fuhlbrigge, Thomas S. Kupper, Mohamed H. Sayegh and Markus H. Frank

Listeriolysin O allows Listeria monocytogenes replication in macrophage vacuoles pp. 350-354

Cheryl L. Birmingham, Veronica Canadien, Natalia A. Kaniuk, Benjamin E. Steinberg, Darren E. Higgins and John H. Brumell

The bacterial enzyme RppH triggers messenger RNA degradation by 5′ pyrophosphate removal pp. 355-358

Atilio Deana, Helena Celesnik and Joel G. Belasco

Translational control of intron splicing in eukaryotes pp. 359-362

Olivier Jaillon, Khaled Bouhouche, Jean-François Gout, Jean-Marc Aury, Benjamin Noel, Baptiste Saudemont, Mariusz Nowacki, Vincent Serrano, Betina M. Porcel, Béatrice Ségurens, Anne Le Mouël, Gersende Lepère, Vincent Schächter, Mireille Bétermier, Jean Cohen, Patrick Wincker, Linda Sperling, Laurent Duret and Eric Meyer

Structural basis of microtubule severing by the hereditary spastic paraplegia protein spastin pp. 363-367

Antonina Roll-Mecak and Ronald D. Vale

Postdoc journal keepers embark on their journey pp. 369-369

Gene Russo

Leszek Borysiewicz, chief executive, Medical Research Council, London pp. 370-370

Jill U. Adams

Bound for Bangalore pp. 370-370

K. S. Jayaraman

Starting anew pp. 370-370

Aliza le Roux

Project: Verbivore pp. 372-372

James Lovegrove

2008, volume 451, articles 7175

Journal club pp. 111-111

Dirk Brockmann

Accelerator plans stalled after US and UK cuts pp. 112-112

Eric Hand and Geoff Brumfiel

India aims for 'quantum jump' in science pp. 112-112

K. S. Jayaraman

Could global gardening fix climate change? pp. 113-113

Jeff Tollefson

Nuclear war: the threat that never went away pp. 114-115

Declan Butler

China bows to public over chemical plant pp. 117-117

Jane Qiu

Fears for oldest human footprints pp. 118-118

Rex Dalton

Snapshot: Making light work of indoor gardening pp. 119-119

David Cyranoski

Conservation: Providential outcome pp. 122-123

Mark Schrope

Cell biology: Bacteria's new bones pp. 124-126

Ewen Callaway

Conservation: in a rut, we need rut-inspired solutions pp. 127-127

Kai M. A. Chan

Conservation: academics should 'conserve or perish' pp. 127-127

Guillaume Chapron and Raphaël Arlettaz

Frog transparency led to discovery of melatonin pp. 127-127

Thomas C. Erren, Russel J. Reiter and V. Benno Meyer-Rochow

Schizophrenia is a disease, so electrons aren't at risk pp. 127-127

Ronald Chase

Schizophrenia does not mean split personality pp. 127-127

Alex C. W. May

From bench to book pp. 128-128

Jennifer Rohn

Rex appeal pp. 129-130

Frank A. J. L. James

Dreamscapes pp. 129-129

Henry Nicholls

Pulling power pp. 130-130

Sean Carroll

RNA rules pp. 131-132

Meng-Chao Yao

Desperately seeking silicon pp. 132-133

Cronin B. Vining

Ancient worms in armour pp. 133-134

Jean-Bernard Caron

Cats, rats and seabirds pp. 134-135

Matthieu Le Corre

A new year and a new era pp. 135-136

Martin F. Pera

The force of fluctuations pp. 136-137

Sébastien Balibar

Evolution stopped in its tracks pp. 137-138

Lev Vaidman

Seymour Benzer (1921–2007) pp. 139-139

David Anderson and Sydney Brenner

Reprogramming of human somatic cells to pluripotency with defined factors pp. 141-146

In-Hyun Park, Rui Zhao, Jason A. West, Akiko Yabuuchi, Hongguang Huo, Tan A. Ince, Paul H. Lerou, M. William Lensch and George Q. Daley

Endogenous human microRNAs that suppress breast cancer metastasis pp. 147-152

Sohail F. Tavazoie, Claudio Alarcón, Thordur Oskarsson, David Padua, Qiongqing Wang, Paula D. Bos, William L. Gerald and Joan Massagué

RNA-mediated epigenetic programming of a genome-rearrangement pathway pp. 153-158

Mariusz Nowacki, Vikram Vijayan, Yi Zhou, Klaas Schotanus, Thomas G. Doak and Laura F. Landweber

An asymmetric distribution of positrons in the Galactic disk revealed by γ-rays pp. 159-162

Georg Weidenspointner, Gerry Skinner, Pierre Jean, Jürgen Knödlseder, Peter von Ballmoos, Giovanni Bignami, Roland Diehl, Andrew W. Strong, Bertrand Cordier, Stéphane Schanne and Christoph Winkler

Enhanced thermoelectric performance of rough silicon nanowires pp. 163-167

Allon I. Hochbaum, Renkun Chen, Raul Diaz Delgado, Wenjie Liang, Erik C. Garnett, Mark Najarian, Arun Majumdar and Peidong Yang

Silicon nanowires as efficient thermoelectric materials pp. 168-171

Akram I. Boukai, Yuri Bunimovich, Jamil Tahir-Kheli, Jen-Kan Yu, William A. Goddard and James R. Heath

Direct measurement of critical Casimir forces pp. 172-175

C. Hertlein, L. Helden, A. Gambassi, S. Dietrich and C. Bechinger

Crude-oil biodegradation via methanogenesis in subsurface petroleum reservoirs pp. 176-180

D. M. Jones, I. M. Head, N. D. Gray, J. J. Adams, A. K. Rowan, C. M. Aitken, B. Bennett, H. Huang, A. Brown, B. F. J. Bowler, T. Oldenburg, M. Erdmann and S. R. Larter

Seismic identification of along-axis hydrothermal flow on the East Pacific Rise pp. 181-184

M. Tolstoy, F. Waldhauser, D. R. Bohnenstiehl, R. T. Weekly and W.-Y. Kim

Machaeridians are Palaeozoic armoured annelids pp. 185-188

Jakob Vinther, Peter Van Roy and Derek E. G. Briggs

The coevolution of choosiness and cooperation pp. 189-192

John M. McNamara, Zoltan Barta, Lutz Fromhage and Alasdair I. Houston

Identification of the sex genes in an early diverged fungus pp. 193-196

Alexander Idnurm, Felicia J. Walton, Anna Floyd and Joseph Heitman

Ultra-fine frequency tuning revealed in single neurons of human auditory cortex pp. 197-201

Y. Bitterman, R. Mukamel, R. Malach, I. Fried and I. Nelken

Epigenetic silencing of tumour suppressor gene p15 by its antisense RNA pp. 202-206

Wenqiang Yu, David Gius, Patrick Onyango, Kristi Muldoon-Jacobs, Judith Karp, Andrew P. Feinberg and Hengmi Cui

Abscisic acid controls calcium-dependent egress and development in Toxoplasma gondii pp. 207-210

Kisaburo Nagamune, Leslie M. Hicks, Blima Fux, Fabien Brossier, Eduardo N. Chini and L. David Sibley

Defective tryptophan catabolism underlies inflammation in mouse chronic granulomatous disease pp. 211-215

Luigina Romani, Francesca Fallarino, Antonella De Luca, Claudia Montagnoli, Carmen D’Angelo, Teresa Zelante, Carmine Vacca, Francesco Bistoni, Maria C. Fioretti, Ursula Grohmann, Brahm H. Segal and Paolo Puccetti

Erratum: Two stellar components in the halo of the Milky Way pp. 216-216

Daniela Carollo, Timothy C. Beers, Young Sun Lee, Masashi Chiba, John E. Norris, Ronald Wilhelm, Thirupathi Sivarani, Brian Marsteller, Jeffrey A. Munn, Coryn A. L. Bailer-Jones, Paola Re Fiorentin and Donald G. York

A controversial move to central London for the Medical Research Council's flagship lab will have career repercussions pp. 217-217

Paul Smaglik

A career at the museum pp. 218-219

Ricki Lewis

Zed's fanverse pp. 222-222

Toiya Kristen Finley

2008, volume 451, articles 7174

Budget blow to US science pp. 2-3

Eric Hand

Airgun ban halts seismic tests pp. 3-3

Rex Dalton

Iowa and after pp. 4-5

Eric Hand

Free journal-ranking tool enters citation market pp. 6-6

Declan Butler

Capacity building: The road from Rio pp. 8-11

Ehsan Masood

Geology: The next land rush pp. 12-15

Daniel Cressey

Strategies and alliances needed to protect forest from palm-oil industry pp. 16-16

Oscar Venter, Erik Meijaard and Kerrie Wilson

Illegal mining could revive Xinjiang's coalfield fires pp. 16-16

Maohua Zhong and Tairan Fu

Slow development impedes the uptake of diagnostics pp. 16-16

Chul-So Moon, Eddy C. Agbo and David Sidransky

Keeping pace with change pp. 17-17

Daniel Hartl

Split world pp. 18-18

Anton Zeilinger

Drawing conclusions pp. 19-19

Jenny Meyer

The greening of genomics pp. 19-19

Andrew H. Paterson

Paradox of a tumour repressor pp. 21-22

David W. Threadgill

Freedom for the poles pp. 22-23

Oleg Tchernyshyov

The price of lice pp. 23-24

Andrew A. Rosenberg

Love hangover pp. 24-25

Leslie C. Griffith

Sources, sinks and seasons pp. 26-27

John B. Miller

Watch your back pp. 27-27

Kosmas L. Tsakmakidis and Ortwin Hess

Alan J. Southward (1928–2007) pp. 28-28

Paul R. Dando

Extrasolar planets pp. 29-31

Dimitar D. Sasselov

A receptor that mediates the post-mating switch in Drosophila reproductive behaviour pp. 33-37

Nilay Yapici, Young-Joon Kim, Carlos Ribeiro and Barry J. Dickson

A young massive planet in a star–disk system pp. 38-41

J. Setiawan, Th. Henning, R. Launhardt, A. Müller, P. Weise and M. Kürster

Magnetic monopoles in spin ice pp. 42-45

C. Castelnovo, R. Moessner and S. L. Sondhi

Three-dimensional atomic-scale structure of size-selected gold nanoclusters pp. 46-48

Z. Y. Li, N. P. Young, M. Di Vece, S. Palomba, R. E. Palmer, A. L. Bleloch, B. C. Curley, R. L. Johnston, J. Jiang and J. Yuan

Net carbon dioxide losses of northern ecosystems in response to autumn warming pp. 49-52

Shilong Piao, Philippe Ciais, Pierre Friedlingstein, Philippe Peylin, Markus Reichstein, Sebastiaan Luyssaert, Hank Margolis, Jingyun Fang, Alan Barr, Anping Chen, Achim Grelle, David Y. Hollinger, Tuomas Laurila, Anders Lindroth, Andrew D. Richardson and Timo Vesala

Vertical structure of recent Arctic warming pp. 53-56

Rune G. Graversen, Thorsten Mauritsen, Michael Tjernström, Erland Källén and Gunilla Svensson

Effects of acoustic waves on stick–slip in granular media and implications for earthquakes pp. 57-60

Paul A. Johnson, Heather Savage, Matt Knuth, Joan Gomberg and Chris Marone

Sparse optical microstimulation in barrel cortex drives learned behaviour in freely moving mice pp. 61-64

Daniel Huber, Leopoldo Petreanu, Nima Ghitani, Sachin Ranade, Tomáš Hromádka, Zach Mainen and Karel Svoboda

Behavioural report of single neuron stimulation in somatosensory cortex pp. 65-68

Arthur R. Houweling and Michael Brecht

TRPC channel activation by extracellular thioredoxin pp. 69-72

Shang-Zhong Xu, Piruthivi Sukumar, Fanning Zeng, Jing Li, Amit Jairaman, Anne English, Jacqueline Naylor, Coziana Ciurtin, Yasser Majeed, Carol J. Milligan, Yahya M. Bahnasi, Eman Al-Shawaf, Karen E. Porter, Lin-Hua Jiang, Paul Emery, Asipu Sivaprasadarao and David J. Beech

Trisomy represses ApcMin -mediated tumours in mouse models of Down’s syndrome pp. 73-75

Thomas E. Sussan, Annan Yang, Fu Li, Michael C. Ostrowski and Roger H. Reeves

NUMB controls p53 tumour suppressor activity pp. 76-80

Ivan N. Colaluca, Daniela Tosoni, Paolo Nuciforo, Francesca Senic-Matuglia, Viviana Galimberti, Giuseppe Viale, Salvatore Pece and Pier Paolo Di Fiore

Poly(ADP-ribose)-binding zinc finger motifs in DNA repair/checkpoint proteins pp. 81-85

Ivan Ahel, Dragana Ahel, Takahiro Matsusaka, Allison J. Clark, Jonathon Pines, Simon J. Boulton and Stephen C. West

Non-fermentative pathways for synthesis of branched-chain higher alcohols as biofuels pp. 86-89

Shota Atsumi, Taizo Hanai and James C. Liao

Distinct domains of tRNA synthetase recognize the same base pair pp. 90-93

Kirk Beebe, Marissa Mock, Eve Merriman and Paul Schimmel

Structure of a tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase splicing factor bound to a group I intron RNA pp. 94-97

Paul J. Paukstelis, Jui-Hui Chen, Elaine Chase, Alan M. Lambowitz and Barbara L. Golden

Structure of the sulphiredoxin–peroxiredoxin complex reveals an essential repair embrace pp. 98-101

Thomas J. Jönsson, Lynnette C. Johnson and W. Todd Lowther

Erratum: Dissecting a circuit for olfactory behaviour in Caenorhabditis elegans pp. 102-102

Sreekanth H. Chalasani, Nikos Chronis, Makoto Tsunozaki, Jesse M. Gray, Daniel Ramot, Miriam B. Goodman and Cornelia I. Bargmann

Erratum: Gene-specific control of inflammation by TLR-induced chromatin modifications pp. 102-102

Simmie L. Foster, Diana C. Hargreaves and Ruslan Medzhitov

Tales of life as a postdoc pp. 103-103

Gene Russo

When Britney Spears comes to my lab pp. 106-106

Vince LiCata

Partnerships pp. 114-114

Maria Ocampo-Hafalla

Has the gamble paid off? pp. 114-114

Chris Rowan

Balancing act pp. 131-131

Moira Sheehan