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2001, volume 411, articles 6841

Tracking tenure pp. 3-3

Paul Smaglik

Physicist nominated as science adviser for US administration pp. 979-980

Tony Reichhardt

Budget proposal casts doubt over physics portal's future pp. 980-980

Declan Butler

Poor nations push for right to produce cheap medicines pp. 982-982

Sally Goodman

India blocks sale of transgenic cotton seeds pp. 983-983

K. S. Jayaraman

Brane new world pp. 986-988

Roland Pease

Vital signs pp. 989-990

John Whitfield

Who is out there? pp. 994-995

Don Brownlee

The view from Japan pp. 995-996

Marc Bekoff and Jane Goodall

Science in culture pp. 996-996

Alison Abbott

Archaeology of type pp. 997-997

Blaise Agüera y Arcas and Adrienne Fairhall

Predicting the future pp. 999-999

John F. Y. Brookfield

Are all cancer genes equal? pp. 1001-1002

Jiri Bartek and Jiri Lukas

Planetary candidates pp. 1002-1003

Bohdan Paczynski

Repopulating the RNA world pp. 1003-1005

Scott A. Strobel

Martian motion pp. 1005-1005

Tim Lincoln

Glowing switches pp. 1006-1007

Johannes L. Bos

A bottleneck for optical fibres pp. 1007-1009

Joseph M. Kahn and Keang-Po Ho

T cells and tumours pp. 1010-1012

Drew Pardoll

Catch the atom pp. 1010-1010

Liesbeth Venema

Phones and the brain pp. 1012-1012

David Jones

Genes lost during evolution pp. 1013-1014

Jeroen Roelofs and Peter J. M. Van Haastert

Night-time predation by Steller sea lions pp. 1013-1013

Gary L. Thomas and Richard E. Thorne

Failure to correct murine muscular dystrophy pp. 1014-1015

Giuliana Ferrari, Anna Stornaiuolo and Fulvio Mavilio

Formation of ozone by fireworks pp. 1015-1015

Arun K. Attri, Ujjwal Kumar and V. K. Jain

Subcellular positioning of small molecules pp. 1016-1016

Shuichi Takayama, Emanuele Ostuni, Philip LeDuc, Keiji Naruse, Donald E. Ingber and George M. Whitesides

Specific protection against breast cancers by cyclin D1 ablation pp. 1017-1021

Qunyan Yu, Yan Geng and Piotr Sicinski

Gravitational microlensing by low-mass objects in the globular cluster M22 pp. 1022-1024

Kailash C. Sahu, Stefano Casertano, Mario Livio, Ronald L. Gilliland, Nino Panagia, Michael D. Albrow and Mike Potter

Sub-poissonian loading of single atoms in a microscopic dipole trap pp. 1024-1027

Nicolas Schlosser, Georges Reymond, Igor Protsenko and Philippe Grangier

Nonlinear limits to the information capacity of optical fibre communications pp. 1027-1030

Partha P. Mitra and Jason B. Stark

Control of conformational and interpolymer effects in conjugated polymers pp. 1030-1034

J. Kim and T. M. Swager

Biodegradation of oil in uplifted basins prevented by deep-burial sterilization pp. 1034-1037

A. Wilhelms, S. R. Larter, I. Head, P. Farrimond, R. di-Primio and C. Zwach

Mineral disequilibrium in lavas explained by convective self-mixing in open magma chambers pp. 1037-1039

S. Couch, R. S. J. Sparks and M. R. Carroll

Anaerobic benzene oxidation coupled to nitrate reduction in pure culture by two strains of Dechloromonas pp. 1039-1043

John D. Coates, Romy Chakraborty, Joseph G. Lack, Susan M. O'Connor, Kimberly A. Cole, Kelly S. Bender and Laurie A. Achenbach

Life-history traits of voles in a fluctuating population respond to the immediate environment pp. 1043-1045

Torbjørn Ergon, Xavier Lambin and Nils Chr. Stenseth

Protein dispensability and rate of evolution pp. 1046-1049

Aaron E. Hirsh and Hunter B. Fraser

The contribution of sensory experience to the maturation of orientation selectivity in ferret visual cortex pp. 1049-1052

Leonard E. White, David M. Coppola and David Fitzpatrick

A defined range of guard cell calcium oscillation parameters encodes stomatal movements pp. 1053-1057

Gethyn J. Allen, Sarah P. Chu, Carrie L. Harrington, Karin Schumacher, Thomas Hoffmann, Yat Y. Tang, Erwin Grill and Julian I. Schroeder

Roles of tumour localization, second signals and cross priming in cytotoxic T-cell induction pp. 1058-1064

Adrian F. Ochsenbein, Sophie Sierro, Bernhard Odermatt, Marcus Pericin, Urs Karrer, Jan Hermans, Silvio Hemmi, Hans Hengartner and Rolf M. Zinkernagel

Spatio-temporal images of growth-factor-induced activation of Ras and Rap1 pp. 1065-1068

Naoki Mochizuki, Shigeko Yamashita, Kazuo Kurokawa, Yusuke Ohba, Takeharu Nagai, Atsushi Miyawaki and Michiyuki Matsuda

Cyclin-dependent kinases prevent DNA re-replication through multiple mechanisms pp. 1068-1073

Nguyen Van Q., Carl Co and Joachim J. Li

Multiple pathways cooperate in the suppression of genome instability in Saccharomyces cerevisiae pp. 1073-1076

Kyungjae Myung, Clark Chen and Richard D. Kolodner

Crystal structure of a complex of a type IA DNA topoisomerase with a single-stranded DNA molecule pp. 1077-1081

Anita Changela, Russell J. DiGate and Alfonso Mondragón

Correction: A conserved XIAP-interaction motif in caspase-9 and Smac/DIABLO regulates caspase activity and apoptosis pp. 1081-1081

Srinivasa M. Srinivasula, Ramesh Hegde, Ayman Saleh, Pinaki Datta, Eric Shiozaki, Jijie Chai, Ryung-Ah Lee, Paul D. Robbins, Teresa Fernandes-Alnemri, Yigong Shi and Emad S. Alnemri

2001, volume 411, articles 6840

Warming up Scandinavia pp. 3-3

Paul Smaglik

From bench to bedside and back? pp. 4-5

Diane Gershon

From bench to bedside and back? pp. 6-6

Diane Gershon

Too few doctors pp. 7-8

Catherine Tastemain

UK working for a better clinical climate pp. 8-8

Helen Gavaghan

Bridging sectors Medicon Valley pp. 10-11

Paul Smaglik

Database of molecular probes set to boost chemical genetics pp. 873-873

David Adam

Asthma study death spurs inquiry pp. 873-873

Paul Smaglik

Texas facilities count cost of tropical storm pp. 874-874

Rex Dalton

Congress cautious on advice office pp. 874-874

Matthew Davis

Japan aims to forge stronger European links pp. 875-875

David Cyranoski

Stem-cell research delayed by German ethics council pp. 875-875

Alison Abbott

Ruling makes it harder to convict dig thieves pp. 876-876

Rex Dalton

Deputies caught on the wrong side of the law pp. 876-876

Rex Dalton

Europe plans concessions to kick-start Kyoto pp. 877-877

Jim Giles

Flavour switching solves riddle of missing neutrinos pp. 877-877

Jim Giles

Raking through the embers pp. 880-881

Tom Clarke

The search for autism's roots pp. 882-884

Kathleen Wong

Poetry tells us that our souls have a shadow: can science respond? pp. 885-885

Fleming Carswell

Call to work together on microarray data analysis pp. 885-885

Kimberly Johnson and Simon Lin

Medical luminaries pp. 885-885

Edgar Pick

Speaking of learning pp. 887-888

Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini

The birth of matter pp. 888-888

Hans A. Bethe

Geometry down the centuries pp. 888-889

Jeremy Gray

Universal knowledge pp. 889-890

Theodore P. Snow

Risk and uncertainty pp. 891-891

Robert May

The zombie within pp. 893-893

Christof Koch and Francis Crick

Non-stick water pp. 895-896

L. Mahadevan

Chlorophylls galore pp. 897-899

Werner Kühlbrandt

Giants in the asteroid belt pp. 899-900

Derek C. Richardson

Seeing red in speciation pp. 900-901

Michael J. Ryan

Nickel probes superconductivity pp. 901-903

Michael E. Flatté

Awareness of space pp. 903-904

Michael S. A. Graziano

Dairy declines hard to swallow pp. 904-905

Peter D. Moore

Stored rail energy pp. 905-905

David Jones

Frederick Gillett (1937–2001) pp. 906-906

Frank Low

The web of human sexual contacts pp. 907-908

Fredrik Liljeros, Christofer R. Edling, Luís A. Nunes Amaral, H. Eugene Stanley and Yvonne Åberg

Turning the key on Drosophila audition pp. 908-908

Martin C. Göpfert and Daniel Robert

Three-dimensional structure of cyanobacterial photosystem I at 2.5 Å resolution pp. 909-917

Patrick Jordan, Petra Fromme, Horst Tobias Witt, Olaf Klukas, Wolfram Saenger and Norbert Krauß

Skyrmions in a ferromagnetic Bose–Einstein condensate pp. 918-920

Usama Al Khawaja and Henk Stoof

Interplay of magnetism and high-Tc superconductivity at individual Ni impurity atoms in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ pp. 920-924

E. W. Hudson, K. M. Lang, V. Madhavan, S. H. Pan, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida and J. C. Davis

Liquid marbles pp. 924-927

Pascale Aussillous and David Quéré

Decreasing overflow from the Nordic seas into the Atlantic Ocean through the Faroe Bank channel since 1950 pp. 927-930

Bogi Hansen, William R. Turrell and Svein Østerhus

Metamorphic core complex formation by density inversion and lower-crust extrusion pp. 930-934

Fernando Martinez, Andrew M. Goodliffe and Brian Taylor

The elastic constants of MgSiO3 perovskite at pressures and temperatures of the Earth's mantle pp. 934-937

Artem R. Oganov, John P. Brodholt and G. David Price

Major fungal lineages are derived from lichen symbiotic ancestors pp. 937-940

François Lutzoni, Mark Pagel and Valérie Reeb

Phylogenetic analyses do not support horizontal gene transfers from bacteria to vertebrates pp. 940-944

Michael J. Stanhope, Andrei Lupas, Michael J. Italia, Kristin K. Koretke, Craig Volker and James R. Brown

Divergent sexual selection enhances reproductive isolation in sticklebacks pp. 944-948

Janette Wenrick Boughman

Nodulation of legumes by members of the β-subclass of Proteobacteria pp. 948-950

Lionel Moulin, Antonio Munive, Bernard Dreyfus and Catherine Boivin-Masson

Spatial awareness is a function of the temporal not the posterior parietal lobe pp. 950-953

Hans-Otto Karnath, Susanne Ferber and Marc Himmelbach

Single neurons in prefrontal cortex encode abstract rules pp. 953-956

Jonathan D. Wallis, Kathleen C. Anderson and Earl K. Miller

Bradykinin and nerve growth factor release the capsaicin receptor from PtdIns(4,5)P2-mediated inhibition pp. 957-962

Huai-hu Chuang, Elizabeth D. Prescott, Haeyoung Kong, Shannon Shields, Sven-Eric Jordt, Allan I. Basbaum, Moses V. Chao and David Julius

Agonist-independent activation of metabotropic glutamate receptors by the intracellular protein Homer pp. 962-965

F. Ango, L. Prézeau, T. Muller, J. C. Tu, B. Xiao, P. F. Worley, J. P. Pin, J. Bockaert and L. Fagni

Nodal signalling in the epiblast patterns the early mouse embryo pp. 965-969

Jane Brennan, Cindy C. Lu, Dominic P. Norris, Tristan A. Rodriguez, Rosa S. P. Beddington and Elizabeth J. Robertson

ATR/ATM-mediated phosphorylation of human Rad17 is required for genotoxic stress responses pp. 969-974

Shideng Bao, Randal S. Tibbetts, Kathryn M. Brumbaugh, Yanan Fang, D. Ashley Richardson, Ambereen Ali, Susan M. Chen, Robert T. Abraham and Xiao-Fan Wang

Correction: Gain-assisted superluminal light propagation pp. 974-974

L. J. Wang, A. Kuzmich and A. Dogariu

Correction: Genomic analysis of metastasis reveals an essential role for RhoC pp. 974-974

E. A. Clark, T. R. Golub, E. S. Lander and R. O. Hynes

Correction: Endogenous cannabinoids mediate retrograde signalling at hippocampal synapses pp. 974-974

R. I. Wilson and R. A. Nicoll

2001, volume 411, articles 6839

What's the alternative? pp. 3-3

Paul Smaglik

What's the alternative? pp. 3-3

Paul Smaglik

Bush set to clash with European leaders over carbon emissions pp. 725-725

Irwin Goodwin

Labs seek share of NIH spending pp. 725-725

Meredith Wadman

Meeting hints at thaw in relations between genome rivals pp. 726-726

Colin Macilwain

Max Planck Society admits to its predecessor's Nazi links pp. 726-726

Alison Abbott

Pathogen threat spurs research initiatives pp. 727-727

Rex Dalton

UK election sees revamp for farming and environment pp. 727-727

David Adam

Fears rise over BSE infection in UK abattoirs pp. 728-728

David Adam

Contracts offer conflict resolution pp. 728-728

Mark Schrope

Referendum stalls Japanese nuclear power strategy pp. 729-729

David Cyranoski

Airborne telescope delayed as plane is made ready pp. 729-729

Tony Reichhardt

The history man pp. 732-733

Rex Dalton

Seismic sleuths pp. 734-736

Larry O'Hanlon

More light shed on the Mauna Kea controversy pp. 737-738

Nelson Ho

Smart-card traffic system keeps Singapore in the fast lane pp. 737-737

Leo Tan Wee Hin and R. Subramaniam

Mathematical model could clarify arms race pp. 737-737

J. C. R. Hunt

A new approach to global book distribution pp. 738-738

William J. Sutherland

Improving taxonomy for us and the other fishes pp. 738-738

Harry W. Greene

The philosopher's child pp. 739-740

Bruce Weber

Scanning the mental continuum pp. 740-741

Robert Plomin

In search of perfection pp. 741-742

Alastair I. M. Rae

Science in culture pp. 742-742

Martin Kemp

Bad words pp. 743-743

Melvin Konner

A watery arms race pp. 745-745

Victor Smetacek

Electronics in a spin pp. 747-748

Michael L. Roukes

Quieting the raucous crowd pp. 748-749

Jared R. Leadbetter

The roots of the matter pp. 749-751

F. Stuart Chapin and Roger W. Ruess

Homing in on ant navigation pp. 752-753

Mandyam V. Srinivasan

Crystals, asymmetry and life pp. 753-755

Lia Addadi and Steve Weiner

Australia's last giants pp. 755-757

Jared M. Diamond

Origins of instability pp. 757-758

Richard R. Sinden

The tense road pp. 758-758

David Jones

The ins and outs of signalling pp. 759-762

Julian Downward

p25 protein in neurodegeneration pp. 763-764

Byong Chul Yoo and Gert Lubec

Knot tied around an octahedral metal centre pp. 763-763

Harry Adams, Eleanor Ashworth, Gloria A. Breault, Jun Guo, Christopher A. Hunter and Paul C. Mayers

p25 protein in neurodegeneration pp. 764-765

G. N. Patrick, L. Zukerberg, M. Nikolic, S. de la Monte, P. Dikkes and L.-H. Tsai

Reef corals bleach to survive change pp. 765-766

Andrew C. Baker

African elephants and contraception pp. 766-766

Stuart L. Pimm and Rudi J. van Aarde

African elephants and contraception pp. 766-766

R. A. Fayrer-Hosken, D. Grobler, J. J. van Altena, H. J. Bertschinger and J. F. Kirkpatrick

The four final rotation states of Venus pp. 767-770

Alexandre C. M. Correia and Jacques Laskar

Persistent sourcing of coherent spins for multifunctional semiconductor spintronics pp. 770-772

I. Malajovich, J. J. Berry, N. Samarth and D. D. Awschalom

Jamming phase diagram for attractive particles pp. 772-775

V. Trappe, V. Prasad, Luca Cipelletti, P. N. Segre and D. A. Weitz

Formation of chiral morphologies through selective binding of amino acids to calcite surface steps pp. 775-779

C.A. Orme, A. Noy, A. Wierzbicki, M. T. McBride, M. Grantham, H.H. Teng, P.M. Dove and J.J. DeYoreo

Evidence for fault weakness and fluid flow within an active low-angle normal fault pp. 779-783

J. S. Floyd, J. C. Mutter, A. M. Goodliffe and B. Taylor

Anisotropy of thermal diffusivity in the upper mantle pp. 783-786

Andréa Tommasi, Benolt Gibert, Ulfert Seipold and David Mainprice

Proteorhodopsin phototrophy in the ocean pp. 786-789

Oded Béjà, Elena N. Spudich, John L. Spudich, Marion Leclerc and Edward F. DeLong

Large-scale forest girdling shows that current photosynthesis drives soil respiration pp. 789-792

Peter Högberg, Anders Nordgren, Nina Buchmann, Andrew F. S. Taylor, Alf Ekblad, Mona N. Högberg, Gert Nyberg, Mikaell Ottosson-Löfvenius and David J. Read

Proximity signal and shade avoidance differences between early and late successional trees pp. 792-795

Ian R. Gilbert, Paul G. Jarvis and Harry Smith

Ant odometry in the third dimension pp. 795-798

Sandra Wohlgemuth, Bernhard Ronacher and Rüdiger Wehner

Motion-induced blindness in normal observers pp. 798-801

Yoram S. Bonneh, Alexander Cooperman and Dov Sagi

Interaction with the NMDA receptor locks CaMKII in an active conformation pp. 801-805

K.-Ulrich Bayer, Paul De Koninck, A. Soren Leonard, Johannes W. Hell and Howard Schulman

Molecular mechanism of cAMP modulation of HCN pacemaker channels pp. 805-810

Brian J. Wainger, Matthew DeGennaro, Bina Santoro, Steven A. Siegelbaum and Gareth R. Tibbs

Sensitive detection of pathological prion protein by cyclic amplification of protein misfolding pp. 810-813

Gabriela P. Saborio, Bruno Permanne and Claudio Soto

Quenching quorum-sensing-dependent bacterial infection by an N-acyl homoserine lactonase pp. 813-817

Yi-Hu Dong, Lian-Hui Wang, Jin-Ling Xu, Hai-Bao Zhang, Xi-Fen Zhang and Lian-Hui Zhang

Production of multiple plant hormones from a single polyprotein precursor pp. 817-820

Gregory Pearce, Daniel S. Moura, Johannes Stratmann and Clarence A. Ryan

Structure of a human γδ T-cell antigen receptor pp. 820-824

Timothy J. Allison, Christine C. Winter, Jean-Jacques Fournié, Marc Bonneville and David N. Garboczi

Correction: Plant diversity enhances ecosystem responses to elevated CO2 and nitrogen deposition pp. 824-824

Peter B. Reich, Jean Knops, David Tilman, Joseph Craine, David Ellsworth, Mark Tjoelker, Tali Lee, David Wedin, Shahid Naeem, Dan Bahauddin, George Hendrey, Shibu Jose, Keith Wrage, Jenny Goth and Wendy Bengston

Correction: Enabling the chemistry of life pp. 824-824

C. Walsh

Plant pathogens and integrated defence responses to infection pp. 826-833

Jeffery L. Dangl and Jonathan D. G. Jones

Gene silencing as an adaptive defence against viruses pp. 834-842

Peter M. Waterhouse, Ming-Bo Wang and Tony Lough

Natural products and plant disease resistance pp. 843-847

Richard A. Dixon

Programmed cell death, mitochondria and the plant hypersensitive response pp. 848-853

Eric Lam, Naohiro Kato and Michael Lawton

Surface-to-air signals pp. 854-856

Edward E. Farmer

Co-evolution and plant resistance to natural enemies pp. 857-864

Mark D. Rausher

Engineering disease resistance in plants pp. 865-868

Maarten H. Stuiver and Jerome H. H. V. Custers

2001, volume 411, articles 6838

Positive vibes for biophysics pp. 3-3

Paul Smaglik

Researchers unnerved by echoes of the past in Russian directive pp. 621-621

Bryon MacWilliams and David Adam

Watchdog fuels doubts over laser pp. 621-621

Rex Dalton

Patent ruling could cut PCR enzyme prices pp. 622-622

Rex Dalton

French unions walk out of talks over 35-hour week pp. 622-622

Sally Goodman

Review urges US physicists to think globally pp. 623-623

Irwin Goodwin

MIT to set up Media Lab in India pp. 623-623

K. S. Jayaraman

Rivals clash over plans to take science to London public pp. 624-624

David Adam

Museum director quits over Smithsonian restructuring pp. 624-624

Corie Lok

Mars rock samples condemned to quarantine pp. 625-625

Tony Reichhardt

Aurora project set to pave way for human space flight pp. 625-625

Alison Abbott

Tabletop astrophysics pp. 628-630

Philip Ball

Biology's name game pp. 631-632

Helen Pearson

Misclassification of pest as 'fungus' puts vital research on wrong track pp. 633-633

Francine Govers

Who is prepared to pay, and how much? pp. 633-633

Johannes Velterop

Drug test warning pp. 633-633

T. C. Whitmore

Diverse origins of biodiversity pp. 635-636

Richard G. Harrison

Changing times pp. 636-637

Joseph W. Dauben

When baguette meets coffee pp. 637-638

Vincent Dusastre

Sulphur and holy water pp. 639-639

Paolo Mazzarello

Physics in the noise pp. 641-641

Michael F. Shlesinger

Fifty years of inactivation pp. 643-644

Richard W. Aldrich

Reverend Berkeley's devil pp. 644-645

Nicholas P. Money

A twisted look at the X-ray sky pp. 645-647

Webster Cash

Telomerase meets its mismatch pp. 647-648

Raju Kucherlapati and Ronald A. DePinho

Nanotubes go ballistic pp. 649-651

Carter T. White and Tchavdar N. Todorov

Advances in aggregation pp. 651-652

Andrew Zangwill

Endless clear skies pp. 651-651

Sarah Tomlin

Slow rubber pp. 652-652

David Jones

Successful invasion of a floral market pp. 653-653

L. Chittka and S. Schürkens

Molecular consequences of presenilin-1 mutation pp. 654-655

Sam Gandy, Jan Naslund and Christer Nordstedt

Keystone-like crystals in cells of hornet combs pp. 654-654

Ietse Stokroos, Luba Litinetsky, Johannes J. L. van der Want and Jacob S. Ishay

Molecular consequences of presenilin-1 mutation pp. 655-655

C. Russo, G. Schettini, T. C. Saido, C. Hulette, C. Lippa, L. Lannfelt, B. Ghetti, P. Gambetti, M. Tabaton and J. K. Teller

Simulation of defect nucleation in a crystal pp. 656-656

Andrew Gouldstone, Krystyn J. Van Vliet and Subra Suresh

Potassium channel receptor site for the inactivation gate and quaternary amine inhibitors pp. 657-661

Ming Zhou, João H. Morais-Cabral, Sabine Mann and Roderick MacKinnon

An efficient photoelectric X-ray polarimeter for the study of black holes and neutron stars pp. 662-665

Enrico Costa, Paolo Soffitta, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Alessandro Brez, Nicholas Lumb and Gloria Spandre

Fabry - Perot interference in a nanotube electron waveguide pp. 665-669

Wenjie Liang, Marc Bockrath, Dolores Bozovic, Jason H. Hafner, M. Tinkham and Hongkun Park

Non-Fermi-liquid behaviour in La4Ru6O19 pp. 669-671

P. Khalifah, K. D. Nelson, R. Jin, Z. Q. Mao, Y. Liu, Q. Huang, X. P. A. Gao, A. P. Ramirez and R. J. Cava

Self-assembly of regular hollow icosahedra in salt-free catanionic solutions pp. 672-675

Monique Dubois, Bruno Demé, Thaddée Gulik-Krzywicki, Jean-Claude Dedieu, Claire Vautrin, Sylvain Désert, Emile Perez and Thomas Zemb

Stability of atmospheric CO2 levels across the Triassic/Jurassic boundary pp. 675-677

Lawrence H. Tanner, John F. Hubert, Brian P. Coffey and Dennis P. McInerney

A phenomenological model for precursor volcanic eruptions pp. 678-680

Thierry Menand and Stephen R. Tait

Reykjanes 'V'-shaped ridges originating from a pulsing and dehydrating mantle plume pp. 681-684

Garrett Ito

Earliest evidence for efficient oral processing in a terrestrial herbivore pp. 684-687

Natalia Rybczynski and Robert R. Reisz

Effects of macrophyte species richness on wetland ecosystem functioning and services pp. 687-689

Katharina A. M. Engelhardt and Mark E. Ritchie

Sexual selection and the maintenance of sex pp. 689-692

Steven Siller

Sexual selection and the maintenance of sexual reproduction pp. 692-695

Aneil F. Agrawal

PCR amplification of the Irish potato famine pathogen from historic specimens pp. 695-697

Jean B. Ristaino, Carol T. Groves and Gregory R. Parra

Retinal ganglion cells act largely as independent encoders pp. 698-701

S. Nirenberg, S. M. Carcieri, A. L. Jacobs and P. E. Latham

Regulation of Ca2+ channel expression at the cell surface by the small G-protein kir/Gem pp. 701-706

Pascal Béguin, Kazuaki Nagashima, Tohru Gonoi, Tadao Shibasaki, Kazuo Takahashi, Yasushige Kashima, Nobuaki Ozaki, Käthi Geering, Toshihiko Iwanaga and Susumu Seino

KANADI regulates organ polarity in Arabidopsis pp. 706-709

Randall A. Kerstetter, Krista Bollman, R. Alexandra Taylor, Kirsten Bomblies and R. Scott Poethig

Role of PHABULOSA and PHAVOLUTA in determining radial patterning in shoots pp. 709-713

Jane R. McConnell, John Emery, Yuval Eshed, Ning Bao, John Bowman and M. Kathryn Barton

Defects in mismatch repair promote telomerase-independent proliferation pp. 713-716

Aylin Rizki and Victoria Lundblad

A freely diffusible form of Sonic hedgehog mediates long-range signalling pp. 716-720

Xin Zeng, John A. Goetz, Liza M. Suber, William J. Scott, Claire M. Schreiner and David J. Robbins

addendum: A universal scaling law for atomic diffusion in condensed matter pp. 720-720

M. Dzugutov

Erratum: Homologues of Twisted gastrulation are extracellular cofactors in antagonism of BMP signalling pp. 720-720

Ian C. Scott, Ira L. Blitz, William N. Pappano, Sarah A. Maas, Ken W. Y. Cho and Daniel S. Greenspan

2001, volume 411, articles 6837

A tale of two energy policies pp. 3-3

Paul Smaglik

Renewable-energy funds threatened pp. 4-6

Steve Bunk

Alternatives energize Europe pp. 7-8

Helen Gavaghan

Data protection law threatens to derail UK epidemiology studies pp. 509-509

David Adam

Arson hampers conservation work pp. 509-509

Rex Dalton

Senate shift bodes well for 'green' science pp. 510-510

Tony Reichhardt and Rex Dalton

'Contrary' trade sanctions worry malaria researchers pp. 510-510

Declan Butler

NIH faces double trouble over budget rise pp. 511-511

Matthew Davis

Dust settles on defamation case pp. 511-511

Rex Dalton

Eastern Europe decries EU research proposal pp. 512-512

Quirin Schiermeier

Astronomers find fast-food plans hard to swallow pp. 512-512

Sally Goodman

Gene tests lift lid on drug-resistance puzzle pp. 513-513

Jonathan Knight

Bioinformatics to be nurtured online pp. 513-513

Declan Butler

A change of climate for big oil pp. 516-518

Mark Schrope

The North Sea bubble pp. 518-518

David Adam

Toronto's science jewel pp. 519-520

Trisha Gura

Authors willing to pay for instant web access pp. 521-522

Thomas J. Walker

Free online availability substantially increases a paper's impact pp. 521-521

Steve Lawrence

Impact factors, and why they won't go away pp. 522-522

Eugene Garfield

Evolution is what's needed, not revolution pp. 522-522

Colyn Crane-Robinson

The Net is many people's only chance of access pp. 522-522

F. A. Khan

No occupation for a gentleman pp. 523-524

Walter Gratzer

Still waiting for the revolution pp. 524-525

David Colquhoun

Breaking down the barriers pp. 525-526

Christophe Boesch

Science in culture pp. 526-526

Giovanni F. Bignami

Formally speaking pp. 527-527

John L. Casti

Knife-edge of design pp. 529-529

Jack Cohen

Entrepreneurial insects pp. 531-532

Stuart L. Pimm

Rehearsals for prime time pp. 532-533

Paul Grant

Fishing for morphogens pp. 533-536

Stephane Vincent and Norbert Perrimon

Down on fungal farm pp. 536-536

John Whitfield

Mantle cookbook calibration pp. 536-537

Craig R. Bina

Tackling common disease pp. 537-539

John A. Todd

A new twist on molecular shape pp. 539-541

Frank Weinhold

Brief encounter pp. 541-542

Raymond M. Welsh

Channels as enzymes pp. 542-543

Michael D. Cahalan

Four feet, one mouth pp. 543-543

David Jones

G. N. Ramachandran (1922–2001) pp. 544-544

M. Vijayan

Natural selection and resistance to HIV pp. 545-546

Paul Schliekelman, Chad Garner and Montgomery Slatkin

Increasing shrub abundance in the Arctic pp. 546-547

Matthew Sturm, Charles Racine and Kenneth Tape

Tunable colour vision in a mantis shrimp pp. 547-548

Thomas W. Cronin, Roy L. Caldwell and Justin Marshall

Lungfish dental pattern conserved for 360 Myr pp. 548-548

Robert R. Reisz and Moya M. Smith

Many-body and correlation effects in semiconductors pp. 549-557

D. S. Chemla and Jagdeep Shah

High critical current density and enhanced irreversibility field in superconducting MgB2 thin films pp. 558-560

C. B. Eom, M. K. Lee, J. H. Choi, L. J. Belenky, X. Song, L. D. Cooley, M. T. Naus, S. Patnaik, J. Jiang, M. Rikel, A. Polyanskii, A. Gurevich, X. Y. Cai, S. D. Bu, S. E. Babcock, E. E. Hellstrom, D. C. Larbalestier, N. Rogado, K. A. Regan, M. A. Hayward, T. He, J. S. Slusky, K. Inumaru, M. K. Haas and R. J. Cava

Enhancement of the high-magnetic-field critical current density of superconducting MgB2 by proton irradiation pp. 561-563

Y. Bugoslavsky, L. F. Cohen, G. K. Perkins, M. Polichetti, T. J. Tate, R. Gwilliam and A. D. Caplin

High critical currents in iron-clad superconducting MgB2 wires pp. 563-565

S. Jin, H. Mavoori, C. Bower and R. B. van Dover

Hyperconjugation not steric repulsion leads to the staggered structure of ethane pp. 565-568

Vojislava Pophristic and Lionel Goodman

Possible displacement of the climate signal in ancient ice by premelting and anomalous diffusion pp. 568-571

A. W. Rempel, E. D. Waddington, J. S. Wettlaufer and M. G. Worster

The post-spinel transformation in Mg2SiO4 and its relation to the 660-km seismic discontinuity pp. 571-574

Sang-Heon Shim, Thomas S. Duffy and Guoyin Shen

High-pressure polymorphs of olivine and the 660-km seismic discontinuity pp. 574-577

L. Chudinovskikh and R. Boehler

Ecological and evolutionary processes at expanding range margins pp. 577-581

C. D. Thomas, E. J. Bodsworth, R. J. Wilson, A. D. Simmons, Z. G. Davies, M. Musche and L. Conradt

Honeybee dances communicate distances measured by optic flow pp. 581-583

Harald E. Esch, Shaowu Zhang, Mandyan V. Srinivasan and Juergen Tautz

Single cocaine exposure in vivo induces long-term potentiation in dopamine neurons pp. 583-587

Mark A. Ungless, Jennifer L. Whistler, Robert C. Malenka and Antonello Bonci

Presynaptic glycine receptors enhance transmitter release at a mammalian central synapse pp. 587-590

Rostislav Turecek and Laurence O. Trussell

LTRPC7 is a Mg·ATP-regulated divalent cation channel required for cell viability pp. 590-595

Monica J. S. Nadler, Meredith C. Hermosura, Kazunori Inabe, Anne-Laure Perraud, Qiqin Zhu, Alexander J. Stokes, Tomohiro Kurosaki, Jean-Pierre Kinet, Reinhold Penner, Andrew M. Scharenberg and Andrea Fleig

ADP-ribose gating of the calcium-permeable LTRPC2 channel revealed by Nudix motif homology pp. 595-599

Anne-Laure Perraud, Andrea Fleig, Christopher A. Dunn, Leigh Ann Bagley, Pierre Launay, Carsten Schmitz, Alexander J. Stokes, Qiqin Zhu, Maurice J. Bessman, Reinhold Penner, Jean-Pierre Kinet and Andrew M. Scharenberg

Association of NOD2 leucine-rich repeat variants with susceptibility to Crohn's disease pp. 599-603

Jean-Pierre Hugot, Mathias Chamaillard, Habib Zouali, Suzanne Lesage, Jean-Pierre Cézard, Jacques Belaiche, Sven Almer, Curt Tysk, Colm A. O'Morain, Miquel Gassull, Vibeke Binder, Yigael Finkel, Antoine Cortot, Robert Modigliani, Pierre Laurent-Puig, Corine Gower-Rousseau, Jeanne Macry, Jean-Frédéric Colombel, Mourad Sahbatou and Gilles Thomas

A frameshift mutation in NOD2 associated with susceptibility to Crohn's disease pp. 603-606

Yasunori Ogura, Denise K. Bonen, Naohiro Inohara, Dan L. Nicolae, Felicia F. Chen, Richard Ramos, Heidi Britton, Thomas Moran, Reda Karaliuskas, Richard H. Duerr, Jean-Paul Achkar, Steven R. Brant, Theodore M. Bayless, Barbara S. Kirschner, Stephen B. Hanauer, Gabriel Nuñez and Judy H. Cho

The zebrafish Nodal signal Squint functions as a morphogen pp. 607-610

Yu Chen and Alexander F. Schier

MOR1 is essential for organizing cortical microtubules in plants pp. 610-613

Angela T. Whittington, Oliver Vugrek, Ke Jun Wei, Nortrud G. Hasenbein, Keiko Sugimoto, Madeleine C. Rashbrooke and Geoffrey O. Wasteneys

Metastasis suppressor gene KiSS-1 encodes peptide ligand of a G-protein-coupled receptor pp. 613-617

Tetsuya Ohtaki, Yasushi Shintani, Susumu Honda, Hirokazu Matsumoto, Akira Hori, Kimiko Kanehashi, Yasuko Terao, Satoshi Kumano, Yoshihiro Takatsu, Yasushi Masuda, Yoshihiro Ishibashi, Takuya Watanabe, Mari Asada, Takao Yamada, Masato Suenaga, Chieko Kitada, Satoshi Usuki, Tsutomu Kurokawa, Haruo Onda, Osamu Nishimura and Masahiko Fujino

Erratum: Self-assembly of mesoscopically ordered chromatic polydiacetylene/silica nanocomposites pp. 617-617

Yunfeng Lu, Yi Yang, Alan Sellinger, Mengcheng Lu, Jinman Huang, Hongyou Fan, Raid Haddad, Gabriel Lopez, Alan R. Burns, Darryl Y. Sasaki, John Shelnutt and C. Jeffrey Brinker

Correction: Formation cross-sections of singlet and triplet excitons in π-conjugated polymers pp. 617-617

M. Wohlgenannt, Kunj Tandon, S. Mazumdar, S. Ramasesha and Z. V. Vardeny

Correction: Crystal structure of the B7-1/CTLA-4 complex that inhibits human immune responses pp. 617-617

Carin C. Stamper, Yan Zhang, James F. Tobin, David V. Erbe, Shinji Ikemizu, Simon J. Davis, Mark L. Stahl, Jasbir Seehra, William S. Somers and Lidia Mosyak

2001, volume 411, articles 6836

Trend or aberration? pp. 3-3

Paul Smaglik

Stanford agrees to settle gender discrimination case pp. 401-401

Rex Dalton

Russia fuels fury with scheme for importing nuclear waste pp. 401-402

Quirin Schiermeier

GM cows face slaughter in multiple sclerosis experiment pp. 402-402

Bob Brockie

Individual genomes targeted in sequencing revolution pp. 402-402

David Adam

More funding needed to wipe out rinderpest pp. 403-403

Sally Goodman

Plans for GM livestock fail the poor pp. 403-403

David Adam

Company tells researchers to look to profits pp. 404-404

Corie Lok and David Cyranoski

Europe's biotech industry still losing to US, say analysts pp. 404-404

Quirin Schiermeier

Plans to eradicate polio hit by virus outbreak in Bulgaria pp. 405-405

Mark Schrope

Congress hears plan to boost science at environment agency pp. 405-405

Tony Reichhardt

What's in a name? pp. 408-409

David Adam

Genetic medicine gets real pp. 410-412

Alison Abbott

Piecing together the history of our knowledge of chimpanzee tool use pp. 413-413

Ulrich Kattmann

Piecing together the history of our knowledge of chimpanzee tool use pp. 413-413

Andrew Whiten and William C. McGrew

Three-person rule was not set by Nobel himself pp. 413-413

Lori Bradford and Perrie O'Tierney

Final frontier or ultimate mystery? pp. 415-416

John C. Marshall

Good communications pp. 416-417

Michael D. Ehlers and Guoping Feng

Flitting around the subject pp. 417-418

Peter Lawrence

Betwixt and between pp. 417-417

John Lydon

Chemical reflections pp. 418-418

Jacques Reisse

Explanatory tyranny pp. 419-419

Timothy Taylor

A question of scale pp. 421-421

Tamas Vicsek

Almost Planet X pp. 423-424

S. C. Tegler and W. Romanishin

Switching on kinesin pp. 424-425

Manfred Schliwa and Günther Woehlke

Getting excited about helium pp. 425-427

Randall G. Hulet

The short answer pp. 428-429

Brenda L. Bass

Synthetic lessons from quinine pp. 429-431

Steven M. Weinreb

Fertile forest experiments pp. 431-433

Eric A. Davidson and Adam I. Hirsch

Learning from a fly's memory pp. 433-434

Randolf Menzel and Uli Müller

Why vortices matter pp. 434-435

Peter Gammel

Gas is for burning pp. 435-435

David Jones

John Frank (Jack) Allen (1908–2001) pp. 436-436

Allan Griffin

Converting currencies in the Old World pp. 437-437

Alfredo Mederos and C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky

Mitochondrial control of fungal hybrid virulence pp. 438-438

Åke Olson and Jan Stenlid

A fern that hyperaccumulates arsenic pp. 438-438

L. Q. Ma, K. M. Komar, Cong Tu, Weihua Zhang, Yong Cai and E. D. Kennelley

Switch-based mechanism of kinesin motors pp. 439-445

Masahide Kikkawa, Elena P. Sablin, Yasushi Okada, Hiroaki Yajima, Robert J. Fletterick and Nobutaka Hirokawa

The size and albedo of the Kuiper-belt object (20000) Varuna pp. 446-447

David Jewitt, Herve Aussel and Aaron Evans

An unusual phase transition to a second liquid vortex phase in the superconductor YBa2Cu3O7 pp. 448-451

F. Bouquet, C. Marcenat, E. Steep, R. Calemczuk, W. K. Kwok, U. Welp, G. W. Crabtree, R. A. Fisher, N. E. Phillips and A. Schilling

'Inverse' melting of a vortex lattice pp. 451-454

Nurit Avraham, Boris Khaykovich, Yuri Myasoedov, Michael Rappaport, Hadas Shtrikman, Dima E. Feldman, Tsuyoshi Tamegai, Peter H. Kes, Ming Li, Marcin Konczykowski, Kees van der Beek and Eli Zeldov

Coherent transfer of Cooper pairs by a movable grain pp. 454-457

L. Y. Gorelik, A. Isacsson, Y. M. Galperin, R. I. Shekhter and M. Jonson

The complex nature of superconductivity in MgB2 as revealed by the reduced total isotope effect pp. 457-460

D. G. Hinks, H. Claus and J. D. Jorgensen

Constraints on hydrothermal processes and water exchange in Lake Vostok from helium isotopes pp. 460-462

Philippe Jean-Baptiste, Jean-Robert Petit, Vladimir Ya. Lipenkov, Dominique Raynaud and Nartsiss I. Barkov

Earthquake triggering by seismic waves following the Landers and Hector Mine earthquakes pp. 462-466

J. Gomberg, P. A. Reasenberg, P. Bodin and R. A. Harris

Limited carbon storage in soil and litter of experimental forest plots under increased atmospheric CO2 pp. 466-469

William H. Schlesinger and John Lichter

Soil fertility limits carbon sequestration by forest ecosystems in a CO2-enriched atmosphere pp. 469-472

Ram Oren, David S. Ellsworth, Kurt H. Johnsen, Nathan Phillips, Brent E. Ewers, Chris Maier, Karina V.R. Schäfer, Heather McCarthy, George Hendrey, Steven G. McNulty and Gabriel G. Katul

An Early Cambrian tunicate from China pp. 472-473

D.-G. Shu, L. Chen, J. Han and X.-L. Zhang

Orientation-selective adaptation and tilt after-effect from invisible patterns pp. 473-476

Sheng He and Donald I. A. MacLeod

Disruption of neurotransmission in Drosophila mushroom body blocks retrieval but not acquisition of memory pp. 476-480

Josh Dubnau, Lori Grady, Toshi Kitamoto and Tim Tully

Leptin activates anorexigenic POMC neurons through a neural network in the arcuate nucleus pp. 480-484

Michael A. Cowley, James L. Smart, Marcelo Rubinstein, Marcelo G. Cerdán, Sabrina Diano, Tamas L. Horvath, Roger D. Cone and Malcolm J. Low

Calmodulin bifurcates the local Ca2+ signal that modulates P/Q-type Ca2+ channels pp. 484-489

Carla D. DeMaria, Tuck Wah Soong, Badr A. Alseikhan, Rebecca S. Alvania and David T. Yue

B cells acquire antigen from target cells after synapse formation pp. 489-494

Facundo D. Batista, Dagmar Iber and Michael S. Neuberger

Duplexes of 21-nucleotide RNAs mediate RNA interference in cultured mammalian cells pp. 494-498

Sayda M. Elbashir, Jens Harborth, Winfried Lendeckel, Abdullah Yalcin, Klaus Weber and Thomas Tuschl

Ribosomal peptidyl transferase can withstand mutations at the putative catalytic nucleotide pp. 498-501

Norbert Polacek, Marne Gaynor, Aymen Yassin and Alexander S. Mankin

Microscopic origins of entropy, heat capacity and the glass transition in proteins pp. 501-504

Andrew L. Lee and A. Joshua Wand

2001, volume 411, articles 6835

Panning for gold pp. 3-3

Paul Smaglik

The birthplace of biotech California pp. 4-5

Potter Wickware

United States treads its own path on climate change pp. 225-225

Irwin Goodwin

Espionage charges threaten to undermine research relations pp. 225-226

Laura Bonetta and David Cyranoski

Record salmon populations disguise uncertain future pp. 226-226

Julie Wakefield

Californian labs feel the heat of energy crisis pp. 227-227

Rex Dalton

Angry researchers pour scorn on astrology classes pp. 227-227

K. S. Jayaraman

Epidemiology gains an ally in bioweapons surveillance project pp. 228-228

Jonathan Knight

Array system promises global atmospheric monitoring pp. 228-228

David Cyranoski

Fresh funding offers lifeline to bioinformatics centre pp. 229-229

Declan Butler and Alison Abbott

Physicists put a value that matters on the standard model pp. 229-229

Josette Chen

Resuscitated 'alien' microbes stir up an Italian storm pp. 229-229

Alison Abbott

The bugs of war pp. 232-235

Carina Dennis

A fine set of threads pp. 236-236

David Adam

Hero or villain? Stasi archives shed light on Russian scientist pp. 237-237

Uwe Hossfeld and Mark Walker

Sorting out the Smiths pp. 237-237

Andrew Bradbury

Health-funding boost not enough for Canada pp. 237-237

Ronald N. McElhaney

Why science and religion need to talk pp. 239-240

Charles L. Harper

Hopping through the Mathiverse pp. 240-241

Lisa Lehrer Dive and Andrew Irvine

Affairs of the mind pp. 241-242

Steven Rose

Science in culture pp. 242-242

Martin Kemp

Sense and sensibility pp. 243-243

Robert Simmons

Ecological forecasts pp. 245-245

Gretchen C. Daily

Leaf sensor for CO2 in deep time pp. 247-248

Wolfram M. Kürschner

Why is the cortex a slow learner? pp. 248-249

John Lisman and Richard Morris

100 and 50 years ago pp. 249-249

Max Born

A stellar performance pp. 251-252

Kevin B. Marvel

Strain against the machine pp. 252-252

Josette Chen

Snails, synapses and smokers pp. 252-255

Dennis A. Dougherty and Henry A. Lester

Making head or tail of Dickkopf pp. 255-256

Roel Nusse

Watching the wind pp. 256-256

David Jones

Sex differences in vocal learning in birds pp. 257-258

Ayako Yamaguchi

Foot-and-mouth disease under control in the UK pp. 258-259

Mark Woolhouse, Margo Chase-Topping, Daniel Haydon, John Friar, Louise Matthews, Gareth Hughes, Darren Shaw, John Wilesmith, Alex Donaldson, Stephen Cornell, Matthew Keeling and Bryan Grenfell

Phosphorus solubilization in rewetted soils pp. 258-258

Benjamin L. Turner and Philip M. Haygarth

Annotation of the Drosophila genome pp. 259-260

Samuel Karlin, Aviv Bergman and Andrew J. Gentles

A glia-derived acetylcholine-binding protein that modulates synaptic transmission pp. 261-268

August B. Smit, Naweed I. Syed, Dick Schaap, Jan van Minnen, Judith Klumperman, Karel S. Kits, Hans Lodder, Roel C. van der Schors, René van Elk, Bertram Sorgedrager, KatjuS̆a Brejc, Titia K. Sixma and Wijnand P. M. Geraerts

Crystal structure of an ACh-binding protein reveals the ligand-binding domain of nicotinic receptors pp. 269-276

KatjuS̆a Brejc, Willem J. van Dijk, Remco V. Klaassen, Mascha Schuurmans, John van der Oost, August B. Smit and Titia K. Sixma

Spherical episodic ejection of material from a young star pp. 277-280

J. M. Torrelles, N. A. Patel, J. F. Gómez, P. T. P. Ho, L. F. Rodríguez, G. Anglada, G. Garay, L. Greenhill, S. Curiel and J. Cantó

Observation of the ideal Josephson effect in superfluid 4He pp. 280-283

Kalyani Sukhatme, Yury Mukharsky, Talso Chui and David Pearson

Conversion of silicon carbide to crystalline diamond-structured carbon at ambient pressure pp. 283-287

Yury Gogotsi, Sascha Welz, Daniel A. Ersoy and Michael J. McNallan

A 300-million-year record of atmospheric carbon dioxide from fossil plant cuticles pp. 287-290

Gregory J. Retallack

Strong coherence between solar variability and the monsoon in Oman between 9 and 6 kyr ago pp. 290-293

U. Neff, S. J. Burns, A. Mangini, M. Mudelsee, D. Fleitmann and A. Matter

Metamorphic devolatilization of subducted marine sediments and the transport of volatiles into the Earth's mantle pp. 293-296

D. M. Kerrick and J. A. D. Connolly

Adjustment to climate change is constrained by arrival date in a long-distance migrant bird pp. 296-298

Christiaan Both and Marcel E. Visser

Endosymbiotic sulphate-reducing and sulphide-oxidizing bacteria in an oligochaete worm pp. 298-302

Nicole Dubilier, Caroline Mülders, Tim Ferdelman, Dirk de Beer, Annelie Pernthaler, Michael Klein, Michael Wagner, Christer Erséus, Frank Thiermann, Jens Krieger, Olav Giere and Rudolf Amann

Reproductive isolation caused by colour pattern mimicry pp. 302-305

Chris D. Jiggins, Russell E. Naisbit, Rebecca L. Coe and James Mallet

Lesions of the human amygdala impair enhanced perception of emotionally salient events pp. 305-309

Adam K. Anderson and Elizabeth A. Phelps

α-CaMKII-dependent plasticity in the cortex is required for permanent memory pp. 309-313

Paul W. Frankland, Cara O'Brien, Masuo Ohno, Alfredo Kirkwood and Alcino J. Silva

A new role for cryptochrome in a Drosophila circadian oscillator pp. 313-317

Balaji Krishnan, Joel D. Levine, M. Kathlea S. Lynch, Harold B. Dowse, Pablo Funes, Jeffrey C. Hall, Paul E. Hardin and Stuart E. Dryer

Integrins mediate functional pre- and postsynaptic maturation at a hippocampal synapse pp. 317-321

Pascale Chavis and Gary Westbrook

LDL-receptor-related protein 6 is a receptor for Dickkopf proteins pp. 321-325

Bingyu Mao, Wei Wu, Yan Li, Dana Hoppe, Peter Stannek, Andrei Glinka and Christof Niehrs

The status of Wnt signalling regulates neural and epidermal fates in the chick embryo pp. 325-330

Sara Wilson, Anna Rydström, Tolleiv Trimborn, Karl Willert, Roel Nusse, Thomas M. Jessell and Thomas Edlund

Mae mediates MAP kinase phosphorylation of Ets transcription factors in Drosophila pp. 330-334

David A. Baker, Blandine Mille-Baker, S. Mark Wainwright, David Ish-Horowicz and Nicholas J. Dibb

Cancer pp. 335-335

Bernd Pulverer, Lesley Anson, Chris Surridge and Liz Allen

Cancer genetics pp. 336-341

Bruce A. J. Ponder

Proliferation, cell cycle and apoptosis in cancer pp. 342-348

Gerard I. Evan and Karen H. Vousden

The Hedgehog and Wnt signalling pathways in cancer pp. 349-354

Jussi Taipale and Philip A. Beachy

Oncogenic kinase signalling pp. 355-365

Peter Blume-Jensen and Tony Hunter

Genome maintenance mechanisms for preventing cancer pp. 366-374

Jan H. J. Hoeijmakers

The microenvironment of the tumour–host interface pp. 375-379

Lance A. Liotta and Elise C. Kohn

Progress in human tumour immunology and immunotherapy pp. 380-384

Steven A. Rosenberg

Haematopoietic cell transplantation as immunotherapy pp. 385-389

Frederick R. Appelbaum

Cancer epidemiology in the last century and the next decade pp. 390-395

Julian Peto

AstraZeneca and Cancer discovery from a global perspective pp. 396-396

Les Hughes

2001, volume 411, articles 6834

Women physicists needed pp. 3-3

Paul Smaglik

High-energy physics pp. 4-5

Alexander Hellemans

Reprieve for Smithsonian centre pp. 119-119

Corie Lok

Stem-cell research in doubt as funders clash with government pp. 119-120

Alison Abbott

Birthday meeting bemoans low profile of science office pp. 120-120

Steve Nadis

Plans for missile defence system perturb physicists pp. 120-120

Irwin Goodwin

Dissent grows over Helmholtz proposals pp. 121-121

Alison Abbott

Mouse genome effort 'on course' pp. 121-121

Jonathan Knight

Canada stakes claim on fusion energy project pp. 122-122

Rex Dalton

Inquiry set up into Porton Down nerve-gas death pp. 122-122

David Adam

Europe brings experiments on chimpanzees to an end pp. 123-123

Sally Goodman

Record donation from Silicon Valley pioneer goes to Stanford pp. 123-123

Jonathan Knight

Decisions, decisions pp. 126-128

Bas Kast

Private investigations pp. 129-130

Rex Dalton

No campaign to strip Baltimore of his Nobel pp. 131-132

James D. Watson

Science should help teach children the meaning of humanity pp. 131-131

Greg Kontos

Particle physicists need a common objective pp. 131-131

Albrecht Wagner

How inbreeding affects productivity in Europe pp. 132-132

Manuel Soler

Philanthropists are paying their dues pp. 132-132

Ben A. Barres

The hidden meanings of maps pp. 133-134

Catherine Delano-Smith

Telling it like it really is pp. 134-135

David L. Hull

Voyager's treasures lost and found pp. 135-136

John Gascoigne

Mastermind of the bird world pp. 136-136

Matthias Glaubrecht

Floral tributes pp. 137-137

H. W. Lack

A light and a dark side pp. 139-139

Thomas Elbert and Sabine Heim

Evolving ideas of brain evolution pp. 141-142

Jon H. Kaas and Christine E. Collins

The Indonesian valve pp. 142-143

James D. Wright

Developmental circuits rewired pp. 143-145

Eörs Szathmáry

Young stars go cruising by pp. 145-146

Gibor Basri

Hip-hopping out of control pp. 147-149

David E. Symer and Judith Bender

Sex and the X pp. 149-150

Laurence D. Hurst

Shock delay pp. 150-151

Elizabeth Harding Hearn

Beyond the spherical cow pp. 151-152

John Doyle

The art of spinning pp. 152-152

David Jones

Spiny lobsters stick and slip to make sound pp. 153-154

Sheila N. Patek

Signals from mature to new leaves pp. 154-154

J. A. Lake, W. P. Quick, D. J. Beerling and F. I. Woodward

How old are bacteria from the Permian age? pp. 155-156

Dennis W. Powers, Russell H. Vreeland and William D. Rosenzweig

How old are bacteria from the Permian age? pp. 155-155

Robert M. Hazen and Edwin Roedder

Different behaviour of North and Irish Sea cod pp. 156-156

David Righton, Julian Metcalfe and Paul Connolly

Closing of the Indonesian seaway as a precursor to east African aridification around 3–4 million years ago pp. 157-162

Mark A. Cane and Peter Molnar

Evidence for planet engulfment by the star HD82943 pp. 163-166

G. Israelian, N. C. Santos, M. Mayor and R. Rebolo

A complementarity experiment with an interferometer at the quantum–classical boundary pp. 166-170

P. Bertet, S. Osnaghi, A. Rauschenbeutel, G. Nogues, A. Auffeves, M. Brune, J. M. Raimond and S. Haroche

Semiconducting non-molecular nitrogen up to 240 GPa and its low-pressure stability pp. 170-174

Mikhail I. Eremets, Russell J. Hemley, Ho-kwang Mao and Eugene Gregoryanz

A prototype storage ring for neutral molecules pp. 174-176

Floris M.H. Crompvoets, Hendrick L. Bethlem, Rienk T. Jongma and Gerard Meijer

Evidence against dust-mediated control of glacial–interglacial changes in atmospheric CO2 pp. 176-180

B. A. Maher and P. F. Dennis

Delayed triggering of the 1999 Hector Mine earthquake by viscoelastic stress transfer pp. 180-183

Andrew M. Freed and Jian Lin

Emperor penguins and climate change pp. 183-186

Christophe Barbraud and Henri Weimerskirch

Host recognition by the tobacco hornworm is mediated by a host plant compound pp. 186-189

Marta L. del Campo, Carol I. Miles, Frank C. Schroeder, Caroline Mueller, Ronald Booker and J. Alan Renwick

Scalable architecture in mammalian brains pp. 189-193

Damon A. Clark, Partha P. Mitra and Samuel S.-H. Wang

An evolutionary scaling law for the primate visual system and its basis in cortical function pp. 193-195

Charles F. Stevens

Interocular rivalry revealed in the human cortical blind-spot representation pp. 195-199

Frank Tong and Stephen A. Engel

Linkage disequilibrium in the human genome pp. 199-204

David E. Reich, Michele Cargill, Stacey Bolk, James Ireland, Pardis C. Sabeti, Daniel J. Richter, Thomas Lavery, Rose Kouyoumjian, Shelli F. Farhadian, Ryk Ward and Eric S. Lander

The Ph1 locus is needed to ensure specific somatic and meiotic centromere association pp. 204-207

Enrique Martinez-Perez, Peter Shaw and Graham Moore

Phagocytosis and clearance of apoptotic cells is mediated by MER pp. 207-211

Rona S. Scott, Eileen J. McMahon, Shannon M. Pop, Elizabeth A. Reap, Roberto Caricchio, Philip L. Cohen, H. Shelton Earp and Glenn K. Matsushima

Mobilization of transposons by a mutation abolishing full DNA methylation in Arabidopsis pp. 212-214

Asuka Miura, Shoji Yonebayashi, Koichi Watanabe, Tomoko Toyama, Hiroaki Shimada and Tetsuji Kakutani

The structural basis of Arfaptin-mediated cross-talk between Rac and Arf signalling pathways pp. 215-219

C. Tarricone, B. Xiao, N. Justin, P. A. Walker, K. Rittinger, S. J. Gamblin and S. J. Smerdon

Erratum: Drought-induced guard cell signal transduction involves sphingosine-1-phosphate pp. 219-219

Carl K.-Y. Ng, Kathryn Carr, Martin R. McAinsh, Brian Powell and Alistair M. Hetherington

Erratum: BRI1 is a critical component of a plasma-membrane receptor for plant steroids pp. 219-219

Zhi-Yong Wang, Hideharu Seto, Shozo Fujioka, Shigeo Yoshida and Joanne Chory

2001, volume 411, articles 6833

Study says authors are averse to declaring conflicts of interest pp. 3-4

Jonathan Knight

Bills threaten total US ban on human cloning pp. 3-3

Meredith Wadman

Active solutions for PhDs pp. 3-3

Paul Smaglik

Pasteur turns to biotech firms in bid to revitalize research pp. 4-4

Sally Goodman

Congress hints at brighter outlook for physical science pp. 4-4

Irwin Goodwin

Dispute over digital music muzzles academic pp. 5-5

Corie Lok

Electronic ink for current issues pp. 5-5

Declan Butler

Funding crisis could spell the end for millimetre telescope pp. 6-6

Rex Dalton

Professors facing power cuts in German university reforms pp. 6-6

Marco Jäger and Quirin Schiermeier

Researchers strike back in animal-rights row pp. 7-7

David Adam

Fungus fingered as dogwood disappears from forests pp. 7-7

Mark Schrope

On the trail of the neutrino pp. 10-12

Dan Falk

The youth team pp. 13-14

Josette Chen

Who will fill the gap by making nucleic synthesizers now? pp. 15-15

David M. J. Lilley, Michael Gait and Fritz Eckstein

Outbreak needs lab tests and clinical diagnosis pp. 15-15

Hugh M. Pirie

Fossil hunters in dispute over Ethiopian sites pp. 15-15

Horst Seidler

What is 'dangerous' climate change? pp. 17-19

Stephen H. Schneider

Volcanic irony pp. 21-22

William I. Rose

Too faint a flavour? pp. 22-22

Peter Waterman

Who guards the guardians? pp. 23-24

Nicholas Zarimpas, Jean Pascal Zanders and Zdzislaw Lachowski

Science in culture pp. 24-24

Philip Ball

Newton in Japan pp. 25-25

Scott L. Montgomery

Here be no dragons pp. 27-27

David Ruelle

Wiping out dirty displays pp. 29-30

Jos van Haaren

Unspinning the web pp. 30-31

Jeff Hasty and James J. Collins

A new twist on neutron stars pp. 31-33

Chris Fryer and Stan Woosley

Asymmetry in action pp. 33-33

Amanda Tromans

Hybrid costs avoided pp. 34-35

Dennis Hasselquist

Dopamine receptors get a boost pp. 35-38

Francis J. White

Hard-cored continents pp. 38-39

Andrew A. Nyblade

Resistance of a perfect wire pp. 39-40

Albert M. Chang

Scroll-reading pp. 40-40

David Jones

Lethality and centrality in protein networks pp. 41-42

H. Jeong, S. P. Mason, A.-L. Barabási and Z. N. Oltvai

Progenitor cells from human brain after death pp. 42-43

Theo D. Palmer, Philip H. Schwartz, Philippe Taupin, Brian Kaspar, Stuart A. Stein and Fred H. Gage

Refraction of a particle beam pp. 43-43

Patric Muggli, Seung Lee, Thomas Katsouleas, Ralph Assmann, Franz-Joseph Decker, Mark J. Hogan, Richard Iverson, Pantaleo Raimondi, Robert H. Siemann, Dieter Walz, Brent Blue, Christopher E. Clayton, Evan Dodd, Ricardo A. Fonseca, Roy Hemker, Chandrashekhar Joshi, Kenneth A. Marsh, Warren B. Mori and Shoquin Wang

Chaperonin turned insect toxin pp. 44-44

Naofumi Yoshida, Kenji Oeda, Eijiro Watanabe, Toshiyuki Mikami, Yoshikazu Fukita, Keiichiro Nishimura, Koichiro Komai and Kazuhiko Matsuda

Hybridization and adaptive mate choice in flycatchers pp. 45-50

Thor Veen, Thomas Borge, Simon C. Griffith, Glenn-Peter Saetre, Stanislav Bures, Lars Gustafsson and Ben C. Sheldon

Four-terminal resistance of a ballistic quantum wire pp. 51-54

R. de Picciotto, H. L. Stormer, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. Baldwin and K. W. West

Superconductivity in the non-oxide perovskite MgCNi3 pp. 54-56

T. He, Q. Huang, A. P. Ramirez, Y. Wang, K. A. Regan, N. Rogado, M. A. Hayward, M. K. Haas, J. S. Slusky, K. Inumara, H. W. Zandbergen, N. P. Ong and R. J. Cava

Atomic-beam alignment of inorganic materials for liquid-crystal displays pp. 56-59

P. Chaudhari, James Lacey, James Doyle, Eileen Galligan, Shui-Chi Alan Lien, Alesandro Callegari, Gareth Hougham, Norton D. Lang, Paul S. Andry, Richard John, Kei-Hsuing Yang, Minhua Lu, Chen Cai, James Speidell, Sampath Purushothaman, John Ritsko, Mahesh Samant, Joachim Stöhr, Yoshiki Nakagawa, Yoshimine Katoh, Yukito Saitoh, Kazumi Sakai, Hiroyuki Satoh, Shuichi Odahara, Hiroki Nakano, Johji Nakagaki and Yasuhiko Shiota

Size-dependent control of the binding of biotinylated proteins to streptavidin using a polymer shield pp. 59-62

Zhongli Ding, Robin B. Fong, Cynthia J. Long, Patrick S. Stayton and Allan S. Hoffman

Evolution of Asian monsoons and phased uplift of the Himalaya–Tibetan plateau since Late Miocene times pp. 62-66

An Zhisheng, John E. Kutzbach, Warren L. Prell and Stephen C. Porter

Phosphorus limitation of nitrogen fixation by Trichodesmium in the central Atlantic Ocean pp. 66-69

Sergio A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy, Adam B. Kustka, Christopher J. Gobler, David A. Hutchins, Min Yang, Kamazima Lwiza, James Burns, Douglas G. Capone, John A. Raven and Edward J. Carpenter

Preservation of ancient and fertile lithospheric mantle beneath the southwestern United States pp. 69-73

Cin-Ty Lee, Qingzhu Yin, Roberta L. Rudnick and Stein B. Jacobsen

Consistent patterns and the idiosyncratic effects of biodiversity in marine ecosystems pp. 73-77

Mark C. Emmerson, Martin Solan, Chas Emes, David M. Paterson and Dave Raffaelli

Larval dispersal potential of the tubeworm Riftia pachyptila at deep-sea hydrothermal vents pp. 77-80

Adam G. Marsh, Lauren S. Mullineaux, Craig M. Young and Donal T. Manahan

Foci of orientation plasticity in visual cortex pp. 80-86

Valentin Dragoi, Casto Rivadulla and Mriganka Sur

BDNF controls dopamine D3 receptor expression and triggers behavioural sensitization pp. 86-89

Olivier Guillin, Jorge Diaz, Patrick Carroll, Nathalie Griffon, Jean-Charles Schwartz and Pierre Sokoloff

Membrane protein diffusion sets the speed of rod phototransduction pp. 90-94

P. D. Calvert, V. I. Govardovskii, N. Krasnoperova, R. E. Anderson, J. Lem and C. L. Makino

Translational repression determines a neuronal potential in Drosophila asymmetric cell division pp. 94-98

Masataka Okabe, Takao Imai, Mitsuhiko Kurusu, Yasushi Hiromi and Hideyuki Okano

Exploitation of syndecan-1 shedding by Pseudomonas aeruginosa enhances virulence pp. 98-102

Pyong Woo Park, Gerald B. Pier, Michael T. Hinkes and Merton Bernfield

Initiation of a G2/M checkpoint after ultraviolet radiation requires p38 kinase pp. 102-107

Dmitry V. Bulavin, Yuichiro Higashimoto, Ian J. Popoff, William A. Gaarde, Venkatesha Basrur, Olga Potapova, Ettore Appella and Albert J. Fornace

Microarrays of cells expressing defined cDNAs pp. 107-110

Junaid Ziauddin and David M. Sabatini

An aminoacyl tRNA synthetase whose sequence fits into neither of the two known classes pp. 110-114

Carme Fàbrega, Mark A. Farrow, Biswarup Mukhopadhyay, Valérie de Crécy-Lagard, Angel R. Ortiz and Paul Schimmel