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2006, volume 443, articles 7114

Sympatric plant speciation in islands? pp. E12-E12

Tod F. Stuessy

Sympatric plant speciation in islands? (Reply) pp. E12-E13

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

Sceptics detect flaws in US nuclear monitor plan pp. 890-890

Geoff Brumfiel

Polish scientists fight creationism pp. 890-891

Almut Graebsch

From hive minds to humans pp. 893-893

Erika Check

Funding agencies toughen stance on open access pp. 894-895

Heidi Ledford

Grants fall victim to NIH success pp. 894-894

Jim Giles and Meredith Wadman

But is it natural? pp. 895-895

Alison Abbott

The Christmas Invasion pp. 898-900

Rex Dalton

Power games pp. 901-903

Nick Lane

Drugs from the deep pp. 904-905

Emma Marris

RNAi Nobel ignores vital groundwork on plants pp. 906-906

Marc Bots, Spencer Maughan and Jeroen Nieuwland

Iran seeks nuclear power to replace reliance on oil pp. 906-906

Kamran B. Lankarani

Iran: productivity is not simple to evaluate pp. 906-906

Hamid Reza Maei

Iran: let's keep politics in the realm of rationality pp. 906-906

Ludovico Cademartiri

Preparing for the worst pp. 907-908

Michael May, Jay Davis and Raymond Jeanloz

The Chomsky of morality? pp. 909-910

Paul Bloom and Izzat Jarudi

Evidence for evolution pp. 910-910

Brian Charlesworth

Battlefield between the ears pp. 911-911

Charles Jennings

Experimental theatre pp. 913-914

Stuart Firestein

Sermons and straw men pp. 914-915

Lawrence M. Krauss

The hero of Gombe pp. 915-915

W. C. McGrew

The theorist pp. 917-918

Horace Freeland Judson

Coping with uncertainty pp. 918-918

Gianpietro Malescio

How to make a social insect pp. 919-920

Edward O. Wilson

In hot water pp. 920-921

Christina L. De La Rocha

Modern look for ancient lamprey pp. 921-923

Philippe Janvier

Like a speeding watch pp. 924-925

Miles Padgett

Blueprints for partnerships pp. 925-927

David A. Stahl and Seana K. Davidson

Protons lead the charge pp. 927-928

Greg Hirth

Red-eye redirected pp. 928-928

Barbara Marte

Skull morphology of giant terror birds pp. 929-929

Luis M. Chiappe and Sara Bertelli

Symbiosis insights through metagenomic analysis of a microbial consortium pp. 950-955

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

Complete crystallographic analysis of the dynamics of CCA sequence addition pp. 956-960

Kozo Tomita, Ryuichiro Ishitani, Shuya Fukai and Osamu Nureki

Evidence for superfluidity of ultracold fermions in an optical lattice pp. 961-964

J. K. Chin, D. E. Miller, Y. Liu, C. Stan, W. Setiawan, C. Sanner, Kuan Xu and W. Ketterle

Exploration of molecular dynamics during transient sorption of fluids in mesoporous materials pp. 965-968

Rustem Valiullin, Sergej Naumov, Petrik Galvosas, Jörg Kärger, Hyung-June Woo, Fabien Porcheron and Peter A. Monson

A palaeotemperature curve for the Precambrian oceans based on silicon isotopes in cherts pp. 969-972

François Robert and Marc Chaussidon

Hydrous olivine unable to account for conductivity anomaly at the top of the asthenosphere pp. 973-976

Takashi Yoshino, Takuya Matsuzaki, Shigeru Yamashita and Tomoo Katsura

The effect of water on the electrical conductivity of olivine pp. 977-980

Duojun Wang, Mainak Mookherjee, Yousheng Xu and Shun-ichiro Karato

A lamprey from the Devonian period of South Africa pp. 981-984

Robert W. Gess, Michael I. Coates and Bruce S. Rubidge

Regulatory constraints in the evolution of the tetrapod limb anterior–posterior polarity pp. 985-988

Basile Tarchini, Denis Duboule and Marie Kmita

Effects of biodiversity on the functioning of trophic groups and ecosystems pp. 989-992

Bradley J. Cardinale, Diane S. Srivastava, J. Emmett Duffy, Justin P. Wright, Amy L. Downing, Mahesh Sankaran and Claire Jouseau

Corneal avascularity is due to soluble VEGF receptor-1 pp. 993-997

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

Chronic polyarthritis caused by mammalian DNA that escapes from degradation in macrophages pp. 998-1002

Kohki Kawane, Mayumi Ohtani, Keiko Miwa, Takuji Kizawa, Yoshiyuki Kanbara, Yoshichika Yoshioka, Hideki Yoshikawa and Shigekazu Nagata

Amplification of histone genes by circular chromosome formation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae pp. 1003-1007

Diana E. Libuda and Fred Winston

Distinct catalytic and non-catalytic roles of ARGONAUTE4 in RNA-directed DNA methylation pp. 1008-1012

Yijun Qi, Xingyue He, Xiu-Jie Wang, Oleksiy Kohany, Jerzy Jurka and Gregory J. Hannon

Erratum: The DNA sequence and biological annotation of human chromosome 1 pp. 1013-1013

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

Correction: Origin of the obliquities of the giant planets in mutual interactions in the early Solar System pp. 1013-1013

Adrián Brunini

Erratum: Complete photo-fragmentation of the deuterium molecule pp. 1014-1014

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

Something to see pp. 1017-1019

Michael Eisenstein

UK academic salary analysis offers mixed news pp. 1025-1025

Paul Smaglik

Northern exposure pp. 1026-1027

Paul Smaglik

Carl Pilcher, director, NASA Astrobiology Institute, Moffett Field, California pp. 1028-1028

Virginia Gewin

Made-to-measure postdocs pp. 1028-1028

Mandë Holford

How studies can save a life pp. 1028-1028

Milan de Vries

Take over pp. 1030-1030

Jon Courtenay Grimwood

2006, volume 443, articles 7113

Iraqi death toll withstands scrutiny pp. 728-729

Jim Giles

Light show pp. 729-729

Nicola Jones

Is ice on the Moon just a mirage? pp. 730-730

Katharine Sanderson

Missing results might have rung warning bell over trial drug pp. 730-731

Helen Pearson

Kudos, not cash, is the real X-factor pp. 733-733

Heidi Ledford

Japan's new premier chases innovation pp. 734-735

Ichiko Fuyuno

Market watch pp. 739-739

Colin Macilwain

Showdown for Capitol Hill pp. 740-744

Geoff Brumfiel, Meredith Wadman, Emma Marris and Heidi Ledford

A life online pp. 746-747

Henry Nicholls

Nature: the many benefits of ecosystem services pp. 749-749

Walter V. Reid, Harold A. Mooney, Doris Capistrano, Stephen R. Carpenter, Kanchan Chopra, Angela Cropper, Partha Dasgupta, Rashid Hassan, Rik Leemans, Robert M. May, Prabhu Pingali, Cristián Samper, Robert Scholes, Robert T. Watson, A. H. Zakri and Zhao Shidong

Nature: ecosystems without commodifying them pp. 749-749

Robert Costanza

Nature: poorest may see it as their economic rival pp. 749-750

Michelle Marvier, Joy Grant and Peter Kareiva

Nature: McCauley replies pp. 750-750

Douglas J. McCauley

Melanoma rates remain high in Australia pp. 750-750

Jonathan Rees

Getting the public on board for cancer screening pp. 750-750

Ramesh P. Arasaradnam

Planning for US science policy in 2009 pp. 751-752

Thomas Kalil

What just ain't so pp. 753-754

Roger A. Pielke

The road to phage therapy pp. 754-755

Sankar Adhya and Carl Merril

Eeyore goes to Washington pp. 755-756

Peter Parham

Science in Culture: Pictures from the edge of darkness pp. 756-756

Colin Martin

The promise of emptiness pp. 757-758

Raul F. Lobo

A kingdom revised pp. 758-761

Tom Bruns

Enzyme target to latch on to pp. 761-762

Malcolm A. Leissring and Dennis J. Selkoe

Return of the last Neanderthal pp. 762-763

Eric Delson and Katerina Harvati

Andromeda's troubled past pp. 762-762

Tim Lincoln

Three-dimensional miniature endoscopy pp. 765-765

D. Yelin, I. Rizvi, W. M. White, J. T. Motz, T. Hasan, B. E. Bouma and G. J. Tearney

Neurodegeneration pp. 767-767

Marie-Thérèse Heemels

A network dysfunction perspective on neurodegenerative diseases pp. 768-773

Jorge J. Palop, Jeannie Chin and Lennart Mucke

A century-old debate on protein aggregation and neurodegeneration enters the clinic pp. 774-779

Peter T. Lansbury and Hilal A. Lashuel

The roles of intracellular protein-degradation pathways in neurodegeneration pp. 780-786

David C. Rubinsztein

Mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress in neurodegenerative diseases pp. 787-795

Michael T. Lin and M. Flint Beal

Cell death in the nervous system pp. 796-802

Dale E. Bredesen, Rammohan V. Rao and Patrick Mehlen

Prions and their partners in crime pp. 803-810

Byron Caughey and Gerald S. Baron

Evolution of the continental crust pp. 811-817

C. J. Hawkesworth and A. I. S. Kemp

Reconstructing the early evolution of Fungi using a six-gene phylogeny pp. 818-822

Timothy Y. James, Frank Kauff, Conrad L. Schoch, P. Brandon Matheny, Valérie Hofstetter, Cymon J. Cox, Gail Celio, Cécile Gueidan, Emily Fraker, Jolanta Miadlikowska, H. Thorsten Lumbsch, Alexandra Rauhut, Valérie Reeb, A. Elizabeth Arnold, Anja Amtoft, Jason E. Stajich, Kentaro Hosaka, Gi-Ho Sung, Desiree Johnson, Ben O’Rourke, Michael Crockett, Manfred Binder, Judd M. Curtis, Jason C. Slot, Zheng Wang, Andrew W. Wilson, Arthur Schüßler, Joyce E. Longcore, Kerry O’Donnell, Sharon Mozley-Standridge, David Porter, Peter M. Letcher, Martha J. Powell, John W. Taylor, Merlin M. White, Gareth W. Griffith, David R. Davies, Richard A. Humber, Joseph B. Morton, Junta Sugiyama, Amy Y. Rossman, Jack D. Rogers, Don H. Pfister, David Hewitt, Karen Hansen, Sarah Hambleton, Robert A. Shoemaker, Jan Kohlmeyer, Brigitte Volkmann-Kohlmeyer, Robert A. Spotts, Maryna Serdani, Pedro W. Crous, Karen W. Hughes, Kenji Matsuura, Ewald Langer, Gitta Langer, Wendy A. Untereiner, Robert Lücking, Burkhard Büdel, David M. Geiser, André Aptroot, Paul Diederich, Imke Schmitt, Matthias Schultz, Rebecca Yahr, David S. Hibbett, François Lutzoni, David J. McLaughlin, Joseph W. Spatafora and Rytas Vilgalys

The Mg-chelatase H subunit is an abscisic acid receptor pp. 823-826

Yuan-Yue Shen, Xiao-Fang Wang, Fu-Qing Wu, Shu-Yuan Du, Zheng Cao, Yi Shang, Xiu-Ling Wang, Chang-Cao Peng, Xiang-Chun Yu, Sai-Yong Zhu, Ren-Chun Fan, Yan-Hong Xu and Da-Peng Zhang

Spatially regulated ubiquitin ligation by an ER/nuclear membrane ligase pp. 827-831

Min Deng and Mark Hochstrasser

An almost head-on collision as the origin of two off-centre rings in the Andromeda galaxy pp. 832-834

D. L. Block, F. Bournaud, F. Combes, R. Groess, P. Barmby, M. L. N. Ashby, G. G. Fazio, M. A. Pahre and S. P. Willner

No evidence for thick deposits of ice at the lunar south pole pp. 835-837

Donald B. Campbell, Bruce A. Campbell, Lynn M. Carter, Jean-Luc Margot and Nicholas J. S. Stacy

Experimental purification of two-atom entanglement pp. 838-841

R. Reichle, D. Leibfried, E. Knill, J. Britton, R. B. Blakestad, J. D. Jost, C. Langer, R. Ozeri, S. Seidelin and D. J. Wineland

High-throughput synthesis and catalytic properties of a molecular sieve with 18- and 10-member rings pp. 842-845

Avelino Corma, María J. Díaz-Cabañas, José Luis Jordá, Cristina Martínez and Manuel Moliner

Eastern Pacific cooling and Atlantic overturning circulation during the last deglaciation pp. 846-849

Markus Kienast, Stephanie S. Kienast, Stephen E. Calvert, Timothy I. Eglinton, Gesine Mollenhauer, Roger François and Alan C. Mix

Late survival of Neanderthals at the southernmost extreme of Europe pp. 850-853

Clive Finlayson, Francisco Giles Pacheco, Joaquín Rodríguez-Vidal, Darren A. Fa, José María Gutierrez López, Antonio Santiago Pérez, Geraldine Finlayson, Ethel Allue, Javier Baena Preysler, Isabel Cáceres, José S. Carrión, Yolanda Fernández Jalvo, Christopher P. Gleed-Owen, Francisco J. Jimenez Espejo, Pilar López, José Antonio López Sáez, José Antonio Riquelme Cantal, Antonio Sánchez Marco, Francisco Giles Guzman, Kimberly Brown, Noemí Fuentes, Claire A. Valarino, Antonio Villalpando, Christopher B. Stringer, Francisca Martinez Ruiz and Tatsuhiko Sakamoto

Novel microbial communities of the Haakon Mosby mud volcano and their role as a methane sink pp. 854-858

Helge Niemann, Tina Lösekann, Dirk de Beer, Marcus Elvert, Thierry Nadalig, Katrin Knittel, Rudolf Amann, Eberhard J. Sauter, Michael Schlüter, Michael Klages, Jean Paul Foucher and Antje Boetius

Fishing elevates variability in the abundance of exploited species pp. 859-862

Chih-hao Hsieh, Christian S. Reiss, John R. Hunter, John R. Beddington, Robert M. May and George Sugihara

An early evolutionary origin for the minor spliceosome pp. 863-866

Anthony G. Russell, J. Michael Charette, David F. Spencer and Michael W. Gray

A linguistic model for the rational design of antimicrobial peptides pp. 867-869

Christopher Loose, Kyle Jensen, Isidore Rigoutsos and Gregory Stephanopoulos

Structures of human insulin-degrading enzyme reveal a new substrate recognition mechanism pp. 870-874

Yuequan Shen, Andrzej Joachimiak, Marsha Rich Rosner and Wei-Jen Tang

Direct observation of individual RecA filaments assembling on single DNA molecules pp. 875-878

Roberto Galletto, Ichiro Amitani, Ronald J. Baskin and Stephen C. Kowalczykowski

EMBO awardees reveal blueprints for success pp. 879-879

Paul Smaglik

Luis Serrano, director, Systems Biology Research Unit, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park, Barcelona, Spain pp. 880-880

Virginia Gewin

Training peer reviewers pp. 880-880

David A. Mackey

Computer cold turkey pp. 880-880

Katja Bargum

A brief history of death switches pp. 882-882

David Eagleman

2006, volume 443, articles 7112

Protests mount against Libyan trial pp. 612-613

Declan Butler

Nobel prize blurs boundaries pp. 615-615

Katharine Sanderson

Intelligent design gets political pp. 615-615

Geoff Brumfiel

Hard-hitting endeavour captures Ig Nobel pp. 616-617

Steve Nadis

The real sea change pp. 622-624

Mark Schrope

A question of trust pp. 626-627

Natasha Bolognesi

Comfortably numb pp. 629-631

Erika Check

Biochemistry has outgrown its traditional boundaries pp. 632-632

Chris Kirk

Videos have starring role to play in protocol sharing pp. 632-632

Matias Pasquali

Consistency tests establish empirical generalizations pp. 632-632

Brian D. Haig

Chimp comparisons won't explain human evolution pp. 632-632

Robert Barton

Science prediction rate would be good in gambling pp. 632-632

Kenneth D. Pimple

Evolution's highest branches pp. 633-633

Matthew A. Wills

Psychoneuroindoctrinology pp. 634-634

Rebecca M. Young and Evan Balaban

The background buzz pp. 635-636

P. V. E. McClintock

A comprehensive medical history pp. 635-635

Andreas-Holger Maehle

Science in culture: A modern megalith pp. 636-636

Martin Kemp

Did the Big Bang boil? pp. 637-638

Frank Wilczek

Fly eyes get the whole picture pp. 638-639

Kevin Moses

Seeds of phase change pp. 641-641

Daan Frenkel

Controlled capillaries pp. 642-643

Brian A. MacVicar and Michael W. Salter

A change of heart pp. 642-642

Helen Dell

Ups and downs of ancient oxygen pp. 643-645

James F. Kasting

Moving to the ideal free home pp. 645-646

Douglas W. Morris

Mitochondria shape up pp. 646-647

Barbara Conradt

An accessory chromophore in red vision pp. 649-649

T. Isayama, D. Alexeev, C. L. Makino, I. Washington, K. Nakanishi and N. J. Turro

Phosphoinositides in cell regulation and membrane dynamics pp. 651-657

Gilbert Di Paolo and Pietro De Camilli

Role of Bax and Bak in mitochondrial morphogenesis pp. 658-662

Mariusz Karbowski, Kristi L. Norris, Megan M. Cleland, Seon-Yong Jeong and Richard J. Youle

Structure of eEF3 and the mechanism of transfer RNA release from the E-site pp. 663-668

Christian B. F. Andersen, Thomas Becker, Michael Blau, Monika Anand, Mario Halic, Bharvi Balar, Thorsten Mielke, Thomas Boesen, Jan Skov Pedersen, Christian M. T. Spahn, Terri Goss Kinzy, Gregers R. Andersen and Roland Beckmann

The sequestration of ethane on Titan in smog particles pp. 669-670

D. M. Hunten

Observation of strong coupling between one atom and a monolithic microresonator pp. 671-674

Takao Aoki, Barak Dayan, E. Wilcut, W. P. Bowen, A. S. Parkins, T. J. Kippenberg, K. J. Vahala and H. J. Kimble

The order of the quantum chromodynamics transition predicted by the standard model of particle physics pp. 675-678

Y. Aoki, G. Endrődi, Z. Fodor, S. D. Katz and K. K. Szabó

Origin of the dielectric dead layer in nanoscale capacitors pp. 679-682

Massimiliano Stengel and Nicola A. Spaldin

Bistability of atmospheric oxygen and the Great Oxidation pp. 683-686

Colin Goldblatt, Timothy M. Lenton and Andrew J. Watson

Long-period astronomical forcing of mammal turnover pp. 687-691

Jan A. van Dam, Hayfaa Abdul Aziz, M. Ángeles Álvarez Sierra, Frederik J. Hilgen, Lars W. van den Hoek Ostende, Lucas J. Lourens, Pierre Mein, Albert J. van der Meulen and Pablo Pelaez-Campomanes

Low-coverage vaccination strategies for the conservation of endangered species pp. 692-695

D. T. Haydon, D. A. Randall, L. Matthews, D. L. Knobel, L. A. Tallents, M. B. Gravenor, S. D. Williams, J. P. Pollinger, S. Cleaveland, M. E. J. Woolhouse, C. Sillero-Zubiri, J. Marino, D. W. Macdonald and M. K. Laurenson

Transforming the architecture of compound eyes pp. 696-699

Andrew C. Zelhof, Robert W. Hardy, Ann Becker and Charles S. Zuker

Bidirectional control of CNS capillary diameter by pericytes pp. 700-704

Claire M. Peppiatt, Clare Howarth, Peter Mobbs and David Attwell

Fast neurotransmitter release triggered by Ca influx through AMPA-type glutamate receptors pp. 705-708

Andrés E. Chávez, Joshua H. Singer and Jeffrey S. Diamond

Identification of nesfatin-1 as a satiety molecule in the hypothalamus pp. 709-712

Shinsuke Oh-I, Hiroyuki Shimizu, Tetsurou Satoh, Shuichi Okada, Sachika Adachi, Kinji Inoue, Hiroshi Eguchi, Masanori Yamamoto, Toshihiro Imaki, Koushi Hashimoto, Takafumi Tsuchiya, Tsuyoshi Monden, Kazuhiko Horiguchi, Masanobu Yamada and Masatomo Mori

The neurodegenerative disease protein aprataxin resolves abortive DNA ligation intermediates pp. 713-716

Ivan Ahel, Ulrich Rass, Sherif F. El-Khamisy, Sachin Katyal, Paula M. Clements, Peter J. McKinnon, Keith W. Caldecott and Stephen C. West

Sustainability of three apple production systems pp. 717-717

John P. Reganold, Jerry D. Glover, Preston K. Andrews and Herbert R. Hinman

Erratum: Structure of the E. coli protein-conducting channel bound to a translating ribosome pp. 718-718

Kakoli Mitra, Christiane Schaffitzel, Tanvir Shaikh, Florence Tama, Simon Jenni, Charles L. Brooks, Nenad Ban and Joachim Frank

Adaptability can trump planning in career considerations pp. 719-719

Paul Smaglik

King Holmes, director, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle pp. 720-720

Virginia Gewin

More than one route to PhD success pp. 720-720

Sarah Bekessy and Brendan Wintle

Lab life or love life? pp. 720-720

Mhairi Dupré

Picasso's cat pp. 722-722

Ron Collins

2006, volume 443, articles 7111

Re-evaluating the FOXO1–PGC-1α connection pp. E10-E11

Marcia M. Schilling, James K. Oeser, Jared N. Boustead, Brian P. Flemming and Richard M. O'Brien

Climate in court pp. 486-487

Emma Marris

Youthful duo snags a swift Nobel for RNA control of genes pp. 488-488

Alison Abbott

Cosmic ripples net physics prize pp. 489-489

Katharine Sanderson and Jenny Hogan

Theorists snap over string pieces pp. 491-491

Geoff Brumfiel

Cloners break away from the herd pp. 492-492

Helen Pearson

Wikipedia rival calls in the experts pp. 493-493

Jim Giles

Copycats gear up to dog biotech brands pp. 496-497

Meredith Wadman

Market watch pp. 497-497

Quirin Schiermeier

In the name of nature pp. 498-501

Emma Marris

Driven to market pp. 502-504

Jonah Lehrer

A novel reality pp. 505-505

Britta Danger

Speaking different languages on biodiversity pp. 506-506

R. M. Ewers and A. S. L. Rodrigues

Bench-to-bedside solution to funding problems pp. 506-506

Samuel F. Bakhoum

Learning from painful experience of disaster pp. 506-506

Steven B. Oppenheimer

Hoyle's observations were right on the ball pp. 506-506

Simon K Rushton and Rob Gray

Unburdened by proof pp. 507-508

George Ellis

Developing diversity pp. 508-509

Michael Karin

Putting DNA on the map pp. 509-509

Denis Thieffry

Science in Culture pp. 510-510

Stefano Grillo

Death of a chaperone pp. 511-512

Cesare Montecucco and Maurizio Molinari

Quantum leap from light to atoms pp. 512-513

Mikhail Lukin and Matthew Eisaman

Complex evolution pp. 513-515

Gavin Sherlock

Lost lithium found pp. 516-517

Elisabeth Widom

Resurrecting a broken genome pp. 517-519

Susan T. Lovett

Downsizing SQUIDs pp. 517-517

Jessica Thomas

Junk DNA as an evolutionary force pp. 521-524

Christian Biémont and Cristina Vieira

Robotic whiskers used to sense features pp. 525-525

Joseph H. Solomon and Mitra J. Hartmann

From in vivo to in silico biology and back pp. 527-533

Barbara Di Ventura, Caroline Lemerle, Konstantinos Michalodimitrakis and Luis Serrano

Transiting extrasolar planetary candidates in the Galactic bulge pp. 534-540

Kailash C. Sahu, Stefano Casertano, Howard E. Bond, Jeff Valenti, T. Ed Smith, Dante Minniti, Manuela Zoccali, Mario Livio, Nino Panagia, Nikolai Piskunov, Thomas M. Brown, Timothy Brown, Alvio Renzini, R. Michael Rich, Will Clarkson and Stephen Lubow

Genome-wide genetic analysis of polyploidy in yeast pp. 541-547

Zuzana Storchová, Amanda Breneman, Jessica Cande, Joshua Dunn, Kendra Burbank, Eileen O'Toole and David Pellman

AB5 subtilase cytotoxin inactivates the endoplasmic reticulum chaperone BiP pp. 548-552

Adrienne W. Paton, Travis Beddoe, Cheleste M. Thorpe, James C. Whisstock, Matthew C. J. Wilce, Jamie Rossjohn, Ursula M. Talbot and James C. Paton

Electron acceleration from contracting magnetic islands during reconnection pp. 553-556

J. F. Drake, M. Swisdak, H. Che and M. A. Shay

Quantum teleportation between light and matter pp. 557-560

Jacob F. Sherson, Hanna Krauter, Rasmus K. Olsson, Brian Julsgaard, Klemens Hammerer, Ignacio Cirac and Eugene S. Polzik

Rapid subtropical North Atlantic salinity oscillations across Dansgaard–Oeschger cycles pp. 561-564

Matthew W. Schmidt, Maryline J. Vautravers and Howard J. Spero

Lithium isotope evidence for subduction-enriched mantle in the source of mid-ocean-ridge basalts pp. 565-568

Tim Elliott, Alex Thomas, Alistair Jeffcoate and Yaoling Niu

Reassembly of shattered chromosomes in Deinococcus radiodurans pp. 569-573

Ksenija Zahradka, Dea Slade, Adriana Bailone, Suzanne Sommer, Dietrich Averbeck, Mirjana Petranovic, Ariel B. Lindner and Miroslav Radman

Functional epistasis on a common MHC haplotype associated with multiple sclerosis pp. 574-577

Jon W. Gregersen, Kamil R. Kranc, Xiayi Ke, Pia Svendsen, Lars S. Madsen, Allan Randrup Thomsen, Lon R. Cardon, John I. Bell and Lars Fugger

Genomic analysis of increased host immune and cell death responses induced by 1918 influenza virus pp. 578-581

John C. Kash, Terrence M. Tumpey, Sean C. Proll, Victoria Carter, Olivia Perwitasari, Matthew J. Thomas, Christopher F. Basler, Peter Palese, Jeffery K. Taubenberger, Adolfo García-Sastre, David E. Swayne and Michael G. Katze

Sodium-dependent uptake of inorganic phosphate by the intracellular malaria parasite pp. 582-585

Kevin J. Saliba, Rowena E. Martin, Angelika Bröer, Roselani I. Henry, C. Siobhan McCarthy, Megan J. Downie, Richard J. W. Allen, Kylie A. Mullin, Geoffrey I. McFadden, Stefan Bröer and Kiaran Kirk

Identification of a mammalian mitochondrial porphyrin transporter pp. 586-589

Partha C. Krishnamurthy, Guoqing Du, Yu Fukuda, Daxi Sun, Janardhan Sampath, Kelly E. Mercer, Junfeng Wang, Beatriz Sosa-Pineda, K. Gopal Murti and John D. Schuetz

Molecular architecture and assembly of the DDB1–CUL4A ubiquitin ligase machinery pp. 590-593

Stephane Angers, Ti Li, Xianhua Yi, Michael J. MacCoss, Randall T. Moon and Ning Zheng

Co-evolution of transcriptional and post-translational cell-cycle regulation pp. 594-597

Lars Juhl Jensen, Thomas Skøt Jensen, Ulrik de Lichtenberg, Søren Brunak and Peer Bork

Erratum: Microstimulation of inferotemporal cortex influences face categorization pp. 598-598

Seyed-Reza Afraz, Roozbeh Kiani and Hossein Esteky

Erratum: Coral reef diversity refutes the neutral theory of biodiversity pp. 598-598

Maria Dornelas, Sean R. Connolly and Terence P. Hughes

Erratum: Sexual reproduction selects for robustness and negative epistasis in artificial gene networks pp. 598-598

Ricardo B. R. Azevedo, Rolf Lohaus, Suraj Srinivasan, Kristen K. Dang and Christina L. Burch

Erratum: Arctic hydrology during global warming at the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum pp. 598-598

Mark Pagani, Nikolai Pedentchouk, Matthew Huber, Appy Sluijs, Stefan Schouten, Henk Brinkhuis, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Gerald R. Dickens, (Jan Backman, Steve Clemens, Thomas Cronin, Frédérique Eynaud, Jérôme Gattacceca, Martin Jakobsson, Ric Jordan, Michael Kaminski, John King, Nalân Koc, Nahysa C. Martinez, Jens Matthiessen, David McInroy, Theodore C. Moore, Kathryn Moran, Matthew O'Regan, Jonaotaro Onodera, Heiko Pälike, Brice Rea, Domenico Rio, Tatsuhiko Sakamoto, David C. Smith, Ruediger Stein, Kristen E. K. St John, Itsuki Suto, Noritoshi Suzuki, Kozo Takahashi, Mahito Watanabe and Masanobu Yamamoto)

Prospects pp. 599-599

Paul Smaglik

A jumping off point pp. 600-601

Ricki Lewis

Sam Aronson, director, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York pp. 602-602

Virginia Gewin

Stand up and be quoted pp. 602-602

Richard Van Noorden

D-day pp. 602-602

Andreas Andersson

Operation Tesla pp. 604-604

Jeff Hecht

2006, volume 443, articles 7110

Increased outcrossing in hothead mutants (Reply) pp. E8-E9

Susan J. Lolle, Robert E. Pruitt, J. L. Victor and J. M. Young

Increased outcrossing in hothead mutants pp. E8-E8

Peng Peng, Simon W.-L. Chan, Govind A. Shah and Steve E. Jacobsen

Stem cells derived from 'dead' human embryo pp. 376-376

Helen Pearson and Alison Abbott

Superconductivity research is down but not out pp. 376-377

Katharine Sanderson

Is US hurricane report being quashed? pp. 378-378

Jim Giles

Face facts pp. 379-379

Jenny Hogan

Statistical flaw trips up study of bad stats pp. 379-379

Jim Giles

Mouse brain map is complete pp. 380-381

David Brill

Bad Boys question received wisdom on HIV pp. 380-380

Erika Check

'Big science' protein project under fire pp. 382-382

David Cyranoski

Turbulent times pp. 385-385

Ned Stafford

Decadal surveys: Wishing for the stars pp. 386-389

Geoff Brumfiel

Hagia Sophia: Shaken, not stirred pp. 390-391

Virginia Hughes

Fighting a reporting battle pp. 392-393

Mike Shanahan

Hungary's 'reforms' are threatening basic science pp. 394-394

Zsuzsanna Izsvák, Zoltán Ivics and Lajos Mátés

Challenge of choosing right level of microarray detail pp. 394-394

Ron Edgar

Funders with money to spare could just pay more pp. 394-394

Shantenu Jha

Piltdown wasn't cricket but does the hobbit ring true? pp. 394-394

Simon L. Goodman

The making of the modern world pp. 395-396

Nasir Tyabji

Science uncut pp. 396-396

Lee M. Silver

The moral element pp. 397-397

Prashanth Ak

Intellect and intuition pp. 398-398

Gautam R Desiraju

A pitcher of things to come pp. 399-400

Jonathan B Shurin

Hydrogen at the flick of a switch pp. 400-401

Masanori Takimoto and Zhaomin Hou

Different paths to the same end pp. 401-402

Antonis Rokas

Coherent questions pp. 403-404

David Snoke

Balancing regeneration and cancer pp. 404-405

Christian M Beausejour and Judith Campisi

A nasty surprise in the greenhouse pp. 405-406

Jos Lelieveld

Silk-like secretion from tarantula feet pp. 407-407

Stanislav N Gorb, Senta Niederegger, Cheryl Y Hayashi, Adam P Summers, Walter Vötsch and Paul Walther

Bose–Einstein condensation of exciton polaritons pp. 409-414

J. Kasprzak, M. Richard, S. Kundermann, A. Baas, P. Jeambrun, J. M. J. Keeling, F. M. Marchetti, M. H. Szymańska, R. André, J. L. Staehli, V. Savona, P. B. Littlewood, B. Deveaud and Le Si Dang

Evolution of alternative transcriptional circuits with identical logic pp. 415-420

Annie E. Tsong, Brian B. Tuch, Hao Li and Alexander D. Johnson

Stem-cell ageing modified by the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p16INK4a pp. 421-426

Viktor Janzen, Randolf Forkert, Heather E. Fleming, Yoriko Saito, Michael T. Waring, David M. Dombkowski, Tao Cheng, Ronald A. DePinho, Norman E. Sharpless and David T. Scadden

Infall of gas as the formation mechanism of stars up to 20 times more massive than the Sun pp. 427-429

Maria T. Beltrán, Riccardo Cesaroni, Claudio Codella, Leonardo Testi, Ray S. Furuya and Luca Olmi

Bose–Einstein condensation of quasi-equilibrium magnons at room temperature under pumping pp. 430-433

S. O. Demokritov, V. E. Demidov, O. Dzyapko, G. A. Melkov, A. A. Serga, B. Hillebrands and A. N. Slavin

Violation of the incompressibility of liquid by simple shear flow pp. 434-438

Akira Furukawa and Hajime Tanaka

Contribution of anthropogenic and natural sources to atmospheric methane variability pp. 439-443

P. Bousquet, P. Ciais, J. B. Miller, E. J. Dlugokencky, D. A. Hauglustaine, C. Prigent, G. R. Van der Werf, P. Peylin, E.-G. Brunke, C. Carouge, R. L. Langenfelds, J. Lathière, F. Papa, M. Ramonet, M. Schmidt, L. P. Steele, S. C. Tyler and J. White

Continental-scale patterns of canopy tree composition and function across Amazonia pp. 444-447

Hans ter Steege, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Oliver L. Phillips, Jerome Chave, Daniel Sabatier, Alvaro Duque, Jean-François Molino, Marie-Françoise Prévost, Rodolphe Spichiger, Hernán Castellanos, Patricio von Hildebrand and Rodolfo Vásquez

Increasing p16INK4a expression decreases forebrain progenitors and neurogenesis during ageing pp. 448-452

Anna V. Molofsky, Shalom G. Slutsky, Nancy M. Joseph, Shenghui He, Ricardo Pardal, Janakiraman Krishnamurthy, Norman E. Sharpless and Sean J. Morrison

p16INK4a induces an age-dependent decline in islet regenerative potential pp. 453-457

Janakiraman Krishnamurthy, Matthew R. Ramsey, Keith L. Ligon, Chad Torrice, Angela Koh, Susan Bonner-Weir and Norman E. Sharpless

BRX mediates feedback between brassinosteroid levels and auxin signalling in root growth pp. 458-461

Céline F. Mouchel, Karen S. Osmont and Christian S. Hardtke

Centrosome polarization delivers secretory granules to the immunological synapse pp. 462-465

Jane C. Stinchcombe, Endre Majorovits, Giovanna Bossi, Stephen Fuller and Gillian M. Griffiths

Structural insights into yeast septin organization from polarized fluorescence microscopy pp. 466-469

Alina M. Vrabioiu and Timothy J. Mitchison

Ion permeation through the Na+,K+-ATPase pp. 470-474

Nicolás Reyes and David C. Gadsby

Prospects pp. 475-475

Paul Smaglik

Building a better foundation pp. 476-477

Gene Russo

Haifan Lin, director, stem-cell programme, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut pp. 478-478

Virginia Gewin

Investing in people pp. 478-478

Sohaila Rastan

Sounds of scientists pp. 478-478

Milan de Vries

Twenty2 pp. 480-480

Nate Balding

2006, volume 443, articles 7109

Is IL2RG oncogenic in T-cell development? pp. E5-E5

Karin Pike-Overzet, Dick de Ridder, Floor Weerkamp, Miranda R. M. Baert, Monique M. Verstegen, Martijn H. Brugman, Steven J. Howe, Marcel J. T. Reinders, Adrian J. Thrasher, Gerard Wagemaker, Jacques J. M. van Dongen and Frank J. T. Staal

X-SCID transgene leukaemogenicity pp. E5-E6

Adrian J. Thrasher, H. Bobby Gaspar, Christopher Baum, Ute Modlich, Axel Schambach, Fabio Candotti, Makoto Otsu, Brian Sorrentino, Linda Scobie, Ewan Cameron, Karen Blyth, Jim Neil, Salima Hacein-Bey Abina, Marina Cavazzana-Calvo and Alain Fischer

Is IL2RG oncogenic in T-cell development?: X-SCID transgene leukaemogenicity (reply) pp. E6-E7

Niels-Bjarne Woods, Virginie Bottero, Manfred Schmidt, Christof von Kalle and Inder M. Verma

Claims of brain drain follow CDC reshuffle pp. 250-250

Helen Pearson

Health agency backs use of DDT against malaria pp. 250-251

Apoorva Mandavilli

Agency accused of 'illusion of integrity' pp. 252-253

Meredith Wadman

Mystery surrounds lab death pp. 253-253

Ichiko Fuyuno and David Cyranoski

Lawyers call for science to clear AIDS nurses in Libya pp. 254-254

Declan Butler

Idol scans pp. 256-256

Alison Abbott

That's no laser, it's a particle accelerator pp. 256-256

Geoff Brumfiel

Sleep it off pp. 261-263

Helen Pearson

A testing experience pp. 265-267

Amanda Haag

The history man pp. 268-269

Rex Dalton

Freedom of the mind got Nature banned by the Nazis pp. 271-271

Uwe Hoßfeld and Lennart Olsson

Iran: support for science does not outweigh crimes pp. 271-271

Itamar Rabinovich

Iran is sixth, not second, in Middle East publication list pp. 271-271

Eran Meshorer

Iran's progress towards nuclear capability is no joke pp. 271-271

Guy Goodwin

Taking time to savour the rewards of slow science pp. 271-271

Lisa Alleva

The road to hell? pp. 273-273

Simon Conway Morris

Astronomy through the years pp. 274-275

Jay M. Pasachoff

Teeming boisterous life pp. 274-274

Jon Copley

Failing the ailing pp. 275-276

Andrew Scull

Science in Culture: A miracle in sight pp. 276-276

Martin Kemp

Greenland's ice on the scales pp. 277-278

Tavi Murray

A precious little bundle pp. 278-279

Bernard Wood

Search research pp. 281-282

Michael F. Shlesinger

Tired T cells turn around pp. 282-283

Sarah Rowland-Jones and Tao Dong

Champagne supernova pp. 283-284

David Branch

A new route to rejuvenation pp. 284-285

M. Azim Surani and Anne McLaren

A sweet exchange pp. 285-286

Christopher T. Walsh

Induction of an illusory shadow person pp. 287-287

Shahar Arzy, Margitta Seeck, Stephanie Ortigue, Laurent Spinelli and Olaf Blanke

Central nervous system control of food intake and body weight pp. 289-295

G. J. Morton, D. E. Cummings, D. G. Baskin, G. S. Barsh and M. W. Schwartz

A juvenile early hominin skeleton from Dikika, Ethiopia pp. 296-301

Zeresenay Alemseged, Fred Spoor, William H. Kimbel, René Bobe, Denis Geraads, Denné Reed and Jonathan G. Wynn

Crystal structure of an H/ACA box ribonucleoprotein particle pp. 302-307

Ling Li and Keqiong Ye

The type Ia supernova SNLS-03D3bb from a super-Chandrasekhar-mass white dwarf star pp. 308-311

D. Andrew Howell, Mark Sullivan, Peter E. Nugent, Richard S. Ellis, Alexander J. Conley, Damien Le Borgne, Raymond G. Carlberg, Julien Guy, David Balam, Stephane Basa, Dominique Fouchez, Isobel M. Hook, Eric Y. Hsiao, James D. Neill, Reynald Pain, Kathryn M. Perrett and Christopher J. Pritchet

Spontaneous symmetry breaking in a quenched ferromagnetic spinor Bose–Einstein condensate pp. 312-315

L. E. Sadler, J. M. Higbie, S. R. Leslie, M. Vengalattore and D. M. Stamper-Kurn

‘Designer atoms’ for quantum metrology pp. 316-319

C. F. Roos, M. Chwalla, K. Kim, M. Riebe and R. Blatt

A guest-free germanium clathrate pp. 320-323

Arnold M. Guloy, Reiner Ramlau, Zhongjia Tang, Walter Schnelle, Michael Baitinger and Yuri Grin

The cause of the fragile relationship between the Pacific El Niño and the Atlantic Niño pp. 324-328

Ping Chang, Yue Fang, R. Saravanan, Link Ji and Howard Seidel

Acceleration of Greenland ice mass loss in spring 2004 pp. 329-331

Isabella Velicogna and John Wahr

Geological and palaeontological context of a Pliocene juvenile hominin at Dikika, Ethiopia pp. 332-336

Jonathan G. Wynn, Zeresenay Alemseged, René Bobe, Denis Geraads, Denné Reed and Diana C. Roman

A common progenitor for haematopoietic and endothelial lineages in the zebrafish gastrula pp. 337-339

Kevin M. Vogeli, Suk-Won Jin, Gail R. Martin and Didier Y. R. Stainier

Topical drug rescue strategy and skin protection based on the role of Mc1r in UV-induced tanning pp. 340-344

John A. D'Orazio, Tetsuji Nobuhisa, Rutao Cui, Michelle Arya, Malinda Spry, Kazumasa Wakamatsu, Vivien Igras, Takahiro Kunisada, Scott R. Granter, Emi K. Nishimura, Shosuke Ito and David E. Fisher

Calcineurin/NFAT signalling regulates pancreatic β-cell growth and function pp. 345-349

Jeremy J. Heit, Åsa A. Apelqvist, Xueying Gu, Monte M. Winslow, Joel R. Neilson, Gerald R. Crabtree and Seung K. Kim

PD-1 expression on HIV-specific T cells is associated with T-cell exhaustion and disease progression pp. 350-354

Cheryl L. Day, Daniel E. Kaufmann, Photini Kiepiela, Julia A. Brown, Eshia S. Moodley, Sharon Reddy, Elizabeth W. Mackey, Joseph D. Miller, Alasdair J. Leslie, Chantal DePierres, Zenele Mncube, Jaikumar Duraiswamy, Baogong Zhu, Quentin Eichbaum, Marcus Altfeld, E. John Wherry, Hoosen M. Coovadia, Philip J. R. Goulder, Paul Klenerman, Rafi Ahmed, Gordon J. Freeman and Bruce D. Walker

Stoichiometry and turnover in single, functioning membrane protein complexes pp. 355-358

Mark C. Leake, Jennifer H. Chandler, George H. Wadhams, Fan Bai, Richard M. Berry and Judith P. Armitage

Prevalence of off-target effects in Drosophila RNA interference screens pp. 359-363

Yong Ma, Adrian Creanga, Lawrence Lum and Philip A. Beachy

Prospects pp. 365-365

Paul Smaglik

Up and coming pp. 366-367

Ricki Lewis

Arthur Ellis, vice-chancellor for research, University of California, San Diego pp. 368-368

Virginia Gewin

The mouse house pp. 368-368

Hannah Hoag

Farewell to the hive pp. 368-368

Katja Bargum

Dr Williamson and the master speed pp. 370-370

Michael Livingston

2006, volume 443, articles 7108

Progress and pitfalls in radiocarbon dating pp. E3-E3

Chris S. M. Turney, Richard G. Roberts and Zenobia Jacobs

Progress and pitfalls in radiocarbon dating (Reply) pp. E4-E4

Paul Mellars

Neutrinos make a splash in Italy pp. 126-126

Nicola Nosengo

Warning flag for ethics boards pp. 127-127

Jim Giles

Journey to the birth of the Universe pp. 128-129

Jenny Hogan

Biomedical research gets a fresh twist down on the farm pp. 129-129

Gene Russo

Women at work pp. 131-131

Alison Abbott

Extreme TB strain threatens HIV victims worldwide pp. 131-131

Emma Marris

'Vegetative' patient shows signs of conscious thought pp. 132-133

Michael Hopkin

Digging for dodo pp. 138-140

Henry Nicholls

A cosmic connection pp. 141-143

Jeff Kanipe

Investigator-initiated trials are more impartial pp. 144-144

Bradley C. Johnston and Sunita Vohra

Biochar trials aim to enrich soil for smallholders pp. 144-144

William I. Woods, Newton P. S. Falcão and Wenceslau G. Teixeira

Biochar and biofuels for a brighter future pp. 144-144

M. H. B. Hayes

Science networks spread throughout the Arab world pp. 144-144

A. Abyad

Our place in the Multiverse pp. 145-146

Joseph Silk

Back on track pp. 146-146

Ann S. Masten

A mathematical tonic pp. 147-147

Timothy Gowers

A global vision pp. 148-148

Alison Jolly

Human brain gene wins genome race pp. 149-150

Chris P. Ponting and Gerton Lunter

Solid oxygen takes shape pp. 150-151

Burkhard Militzer and Russell J. Hemley

Dawn after the dark age pp. 151-152

Richard McMahon

Can less be more for p53? pp. 153-154

Anton Berns

Observing and the observed pp. 154-155

Michael Roukes

The ins and outs of drug transport pp. 157-157

Shimon Schuldiner

To catch a bee pp. 158-158

Helen Dell

James A. Van Allen (1914–2006) pp. 158-158

Donald A. Gurnett

Policing of oncogene activity by p53 pp. 159-159

Alejo Efeyan, Isabel Garcia-Cao, Daniel Herranz, Susana Velasco-Miguel and Manuel Serrano

Variations in solar luminosity and their effect on the Earth's climate pp. 161-166

P. Foukal, C. Fröhlich, H. Spruit and T. M. L. Wigley

An RNA gene expressed during cortical development evolved rapidly in humans pp. 167-172

Katherine S. Pollard, Sofie R. Salama, Nelle Lambert, Marie-Alexandra Lambot, Sandra Coppens, Jakob S. Pedersen, Sol Katzman, Bryan King, Courtney Onodera, Adam Siepel, Andrew D. Kern, Colette Dehay, Haller Igel, Manuel Ares, Pierre Vanderhaeghen and David Haussler

Crystal structures of a multidrug transporter reveal a functionally rotating mechanism pp. 173-179

Satoshi Murakami, Ryosuke Nakashima, Eiki Yamashita, Takashi Matsumoto and Akihito Yamaguchi

Structure of a bacterial multidrug ABC transporter pp. 180-185

Roger J. P. Dawson and Kaspar P. Locher

A galaxy at a redshift z = 6.96 pp. 186-188

Masanori Iye, Kazuaki Ota, Nobunari Kashikawa, Hisanori Furusawa, Tetsuya Hashimoto, Takashi Hattori, Yuichi Matsuda, Tomoki Morokuma, Masami Ouchi and Kazuhiro Shimasaku

Rapid evolution of the most luminous galaxies during the first 900 million years pp. 189-192

Rychard J. Bouwens and Garth D. Illingworth

Cooling a nanomechanical resonator with quantum back-action pp. 193-196

A. Naik, O. Buu, M. D. LaHaye, A. D. Armour, A. A. Clerk, M. P. Blencowe and K. C. Schwab

Oscillatory dependence of current-driven magnetic domain wall motion on current pulse length pp. 197-200

Luc Thomas, Masamitsu Hayashi, Xin Jiang, Rai Moriya, Charles Rettner and Stuart S. P. Parkin

Observation of an O8 molecular lattice in the ɛ phase of solid oxygen pp. 201-204

Lars F. Lundegaard, Gunnar Weck, Malcolm I. McMahon, Serge Desgreniers and Paul Loubeyre

Land–atmosphere coupling and climate change in Europe pp. 205-209

Sonia I. Seneviratne, Daniel Lüthi, Michael Litschi and Christoph Schär

The tumour suppressor Hippo acts with the NDR kinases in dendritic tiling and maintenance pp. 210-213

Kazuo Emoto, Jay Z. Parrish, Lily Yeh Jan and Yuh-Nung Jan

The pathological response to DNA damage does not contribute to p53-mediated tumour suppression pp. 214-217

M. A. Christophorou, I. Ringshausen, A. J. Finch, L. Brown Swigart and G. I. Evan

Structure of the insulin receptor ectodomain reveals a folded-over conformation pp. 218-221

Neil M. McKern, Michael C. Lawrence, Victor A. Streltsov, Mei-Zhen Lou, Timothy E. Adams, George O. Lovrecz, Thomas C. Elleman, Kim M. Richards, John D. Bentley, Patricia A. Pilling, Peter A. Hoyne, Kellie A. Cartledge, Tam M. Pham, Jennifer L. Lewis, Sonia E. Sankovich, Violet Stoichevska, Elizabeth Da Silva, Christine P. Robinson, Maurice J. Frenkel, Lindsay G. Sparrow, Ross T. Fernley, V. Chandana Epa and Colin W. Ward

Autophosphorylation at serine 1987 is dispensable for murine Atm activation in vivo pp. 222-225

Manuela Pellegrini, Arkady Celeste, Simone Difilippantonio, Rong Guo, Weidong Wang, Lionel Feigenbaum and André Nussenzweig

Molecular identification of the CRAC channel by altered ion selectivity in a mutant of Orai pp. 226-229

Andriy V. Yeromin, Shenyuan L. Zhang, Weihua Jiang, Ying Yu, Olga Safrina and Michael D. Cahalan

Orai1 is an essential pore subunit of the CRAC channel pp. 230-233

Murali Prakriya, Stefan Feske, Yousang Gwack, Sonal Srikanth, Anjana Rao and Patrick G. Hogan

An intron with a constitutive transport element is retained in a Tap messenger RNA pp. 234-237

Ying Li, Yeou-cherng Bor, Yukiko Misawa, Yuming Xue, David Rekosh and Marie-Louise Hammarskjöld

The anniversary of Hurricane Katrina reminds all scientists of a valuable lesson: be prepared pp. 239-239

Paul Smaglik

When it's personal pp. 240-241

Kendall Powell

Richard Granger, director, Neukom Institute for Computational Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire pp. 242-242

Virginia Gewin

Coming home pp. 242-242

Livia Puljak

Tables turned pp. 242-242

Mhairi Dupré

The trial of Jeremy Owens pp. 244-244

Peter Roberts

2006, volume 443, articles 7107

Bedrock formation at Meridiani Planum pp. E1-E2

S. W. Squyres, O. Aharonson, R. E. Arvidson, J. F. Bell, P. R. Christensen, B. C. Clark, J. A. Crisp, W. Farrand, T. Glotch, M. P. Golombek, J. Grant, J. Grotzinger, K. E. Herkenhoff, J. R. Johnson, B. L. Jolliff, A. H. Knoll, S. M. McLennan, H. Y. McSween, J. M. Moore, J. W. Rice and N. Tosca

Bedrock formation at Meridiani Planum (Reply) pp. E2-E2

Thomas M. McCollom and Brian M. Hynek

Mix and match: the hunt for what makes us human pp. 8-9

Erika Check

Muslim council phases in lunar calendar pp. 9-9

Ehsan Masood

When science and theology meet pp. 10-11

Declan Butler

French confusion leaves Iranians locked out of meeting pp. 11-11

Declan Butler

'Ethical' stem-cell paper under attack pp. 12-12

Alison Abbott

Market watch pp. 17-17

Alexandra Witze

A new day dawning?: Silicon Valley sunrise pp. 19-22

Oliver Morton

Radiation nation pp. 23-24

Carina Dennis

Refund fertility-treatment costs for donated embryos pp. 26-26

Boon Chin Heng and Tong Cao

Dogma, not faith, is the barrier to scientific enquiry pp. 26-26

U Kutschera

Author lists: specify who did what to aid assessment pp. 26-26

Marcos V C Vital

And finally pp. 26-26

R Martyn Bracewell, Steve Tipper and Robert Rafal

Selling out on nature pp. 27-28

Douglas J. McCauley

Hitting the right note pp. 29-30

Petr Janata

Learning the mother tongue pp. 30-30

Annette Karmiloff-Smith

A pro-darwinian tool-kit pp. 31-31

Mark Pagel

Reflections on Wallace pp. 33-34

Charles H. Smith

Infectious tumour cells pp. 35-36

David Dingli and Martin A. Nowak

Turbulence lost in transience pp. 36-37

Daniel Perry Lathrop

Antiviral drugs fit for a purpose pp. 37-38

Ming Luo

Playing molecular tag pp. 39-39

Richard Webb

Controlling our errors pp. 39-40

Barry Mazur

Catalysts break symmetry pp. 40-41

Scott E. Denmark

Sticky end in protein synthesis pp. 41-42

Hervé Roy and Michael Ibba

Nitrogen balance and Arctic throughflow pp. 43-43

Michiyo Yamamoto-Kawai, Eddy Carmack and Fiona McLaughlin

The structure of H5N1 avian influenza neuraminidase suggests new opportunities for drug design pp. 45-49

Rupert J. Russell, Lesley F. Haire, David J. Stevens, Patrick J. Collins, Yi Pu Lin, G. Michael Blackburn, Alan J. Hay, Steven J. Gamblin and John J. Skehel

Editing-defective tRNA synthetase causes protein misfolding and neurodegeneration pp. 50-55

Jeong Woong Lee, Kirk Beebe, Leslie A. Nangle, Jaeseon Jang, Chantal M. Longo-Guess, Susan A. Cook, Muriel T. Davisson, John P. Sundberg, Paul Schimmel and Susan L. Ackerman

Developing space weathering on the asteroid 25143 Itokawa pp. 56-58

Takahiro Hiroi, Masanao Abe, Kohei Kitazato, Shinsuke Abe, Beth E. Clark, Sho Sasaki, Masateru Ishiguro and Olivier S. Barnouin-Jha

Finite lifetime of turbulence in shear flows pp. 59-62

Björn Hof, Jerry Westerweel, Tobias M. Schneider and Bruno Eckhardt

A class of non-precious metal composite catalysts for fuel cells pp. 63-66

Rajesh Bashyam and Piotr Zelenay

Enantioselective silyl protection of alcohols catalysed by an amino-acid-based small molecule pp. 67-70

Yu Zhao, Jason Rodrigo, Amir H. Hoveyda and Marc L. Snapper

Methane bubbling from Siberian thaw lakes as a positive feedback to climate warming pp. 71-75

K. M. Walter, S. A. Zimov, J. P. Chanton, D. Verbyla and F. S. Chapin

Magma heating by decompression-driven crystallization beneath andesite volcanoes pp. 76-80

Jon Blundy, Kathy Cashman and Madeleine Humphreys

Potentiation of cortical inhibition by visual deprivation pp. 81-84

Arianna Maffei, Kiran Nataraj, Sacha B. Nelson and Gina G. Turrigiano

Experience-dependent representation of visual categories in parietal cortex pp. 85-88

David J. Freedman and John A. Assad

Interference among deleterious mutations favours sex and recombination in finite populations pp. 89-92

Peter D. Keightley and Sarah P. Otto

Evidence for complete denitrification in a benthic foraminifer pp. 93-96

Nils Risgaard-Petersen, Alexandra M. Langezaal, Signe Ingvardsen, Markus C. Schmid, Mike S. M. Jetten, Huub J. M. Op den Camp, Jan W. M. Derksen, Elisa Piña-Ochoa, Susanne P. Eriksson, Lars Peter Nielsen, Niels Peter Revsbech, Tomas Cedhagen and Gijsbert J. van der Zwaan

Soma–germline interactions coordinate homeostasis and growth in the Drosophila gonad pp. 97-100

Lilach Gilboa and Ruth Lehmann

Sperm chromatin proteomics identifies evolutionarily conserved fertility factors pp. 101-105

Diana S. Chu, Hongbin Liu, Paola Nix, Tammy F. Wu, Edward J. Ralston, John R. Yates and Barbara J. Meyer

AtSNX1 defines an endosome for auxin-carrier trafficking in Arabidopsis pp. 106-109

Yvon Jaillais, Isabelle Fobis-Loisy, Christine Miège, Claire Rollin and Thierry Gaude

Unravelling the dynamics of RNA degradation by ribonuclease II and its RNA-bound complex pp. 110-114

Carlos Frazão, Colin E. McVey, Mónica Amblar, Ana Barbas, Clemens Vonrhein, Cecília M. Arraiano and Maria A. Carrondo

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Paul Smaglik

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Hannah Hoag

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Virginia Gewin

A bridge from Portugal to the States pp. 118-118

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Andreas Andersson

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