Table of contents
Volume 449 Number 7158 pp1-114
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Editorials
Life as we know it p1
To understand the human genome, researchers must spread their wings to all branches of life.
doi:10.1038/449001a
The big splash p1
An unforeseeable chain of insights into an event 65 million years ago merits celebration.
doi:10.1038/449001b
A question of breeding p2
China needs to rethink its approach to conservation if it wants to protect its endangered tigers.
doi:10.1038/449002a
News
All about Craig: the first 'full' genome sequence p6
Revealing that the genetic pioneer has wet earwax, and more...
Heidi Ledford
doi:10.1038/449006a
Genomes within genomes p6
Bacterial parasite's DNA discovered in fruitfly host.
Ewen Callaway
doi:10.1038/449006b
DNA probe finds hints of human p7
Contamination of ancient samples may have led to claims that humans and Neanderthals interbred.
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/449007a
Sidelines p8
doi:10.1038/449008a
Turkish physicists face accusations of plagiarism p8
Scores of papers are removed from arXiv server.
Geoff Brumfiel
doi:10.1038/449008b
Snapshot: Rare beef p9
Indigenous livestock breeds under threat across the world.
Michael Hopkin
doi:10.1038/449009a
Biotech crop rules get rewrite p9
US regulations on genetically modified organisms under review.
Emma Marris
doi:10.1038/449009b
The dune chorus p10
Desert songs divide sand researchers
Philip Ball
doi:10.1038/449010a
Crashing DNA's ultraconservative party p10
Genetic sequences preserved through evolutionary selection might not be functional.
Erika Check
doi:10.1038/449010b
Chinese law aims to quell fear of failure p12
Science ministry hopes to encourage risk-takers.
Jane Qiu
doi:10.1038/449012a
Business
King coal constrained p14
Sustained high oil prices won't be enough to make coal liquefaction economically viable without large-scale public investment. Katharine Sanderson reports.
doi:10.1038/449014a
In brief p15
doi:10.1038/449015a
Market watch p15
doi:10.1038/449015b
News Features
Tigers in trouble: Year of the tiger p16
Dubious science and looming legalization of the tiger trade threaten to derail China's efforts to save the Siberian tiger. Jerry Guo goes to the world's largest tiger-breeding facility to investigate.
doi:10.1038/449016a
Palaeontology: Time traps p20
The whole world felt the effects of the dinosaur-killing mass extinction 65 million years ago. But a spot in Colorado may have the best record of it. Rex Dalton reports from Denver.
doi:10.1038/449020a
Taxonomy: The Collector p23
How Paddy Patterson, one of the architects of the Encyclopedia of Life, hopes to present biodiversity to the world.
doi:10.1038/449023a
Correspondence
Poverty and environmental stress fuel Darfur crisis p24
Jeffrey D. Sachs
doi:10.1038/449024a
A paper should appear with all the information it needs p24
Larry Benson
doi:10.1038/449024b
Diverse approaches useful for microbicide trials p24
Salim S. Abdool Karim & Quarraisha Abdool Karim
doi:10.1038/449024c
DAMA sheds light on dark-matter particles p24
Rita Bernabei & Alessandro Bottino
doi:10.1038/449024d
Books and Arts
An act of communal imagination p25
A Disappearing Number, a play exploring the partnership between mathematicians G. H. Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan, opens in London this week. It is the latest of several astonishing works devised by leading international theatre company Complicite, marbled with science and technology. Artistic director Simon McBurney tells Nature about the results of his most recent round of collaboration and experimentation.
doi:10.1038/449025a
The animal in us p26
Alison Abbott reviews The Human Animal in Western Art and Science by Martin Kemp
doi:10.1038/449026a
A question of truth p27
Katherine Körner reviews A Certain Ambiguity: A Mathematical Novel by Gaurav Suri & Hartosh Singh Bal
doi:10.1038/449027a
See also: Editor's summary
News and Views
HIV/AIDS: Allied responses p29
The main function of neutralizing antibodies is to block viral entry into host cells. But, for maximal protection against HIV, such antibodies must call upon other elements of the immune system to help with the job.
John R. Mascola
doi:10.1038/449029a
See also: Editor's summary
Solar System: Lethal billiards p30
A huge collision in the asteroid belt 160 million years ago sent fragments bagatelling around the inner Solar System. One piece might have caused the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
Philippe Claeys & Steven Goderis
doi:10.1038/449030a
See also: Editor's summary
Earthquakes: Burma's fault p33
Ninad Bondre
doi:10.1038/449033a
See also: Editor's summary
Zoology: Twice bitten p33
The toothy visage of a moray eel is a fearsome sight. The discovery that morays can thrust a second pair of jaws out from their throat to wolf down prey whole increases their predatory reputation still further.
Mark W. Westneat
doi:10.1038/449033b
See also: Editor's summary
Physical oceanography: Super spin in the southern seas p34
The southern oceans are generally considered as isolated systems, much like their northern counterparts. But a combination of historical data and new density profiles suggests that they may be connected on a global scale.
Dean Roemmich
doi:10.1038/449034a
Cell biology: Taxi service for lipids p35
With its role in intracellular protein transport already known, the FAPP2 protein has now also been implicated in lipid transfer and synthesis. What is more, these two FAPP2-mediated events seem to be linked.
Anthony H. Futerman
doi:10.1038/449035a
News and Views Q&A
Technology: Biometric recognition p38
Whether in passports, credit cards, laptops or mobile phones, automated methods of identifying people through their anatomical features or behavioural traits are an increasing feature of modern life.
Anil K. Jain
doi:10.1038/449038a
See also: Editor's summary
Review
Dragging of inertial frames p41
Ignazio Ciufolini
doi:10.1038/nature06071
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Articles
An asteroid breakup 160 Myr ago as the probable source of the K/T impactor p48
William F. Bottke, David Vokrouhlický & David Nesvorný
doi:10.1038/nature06070
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (1,264K) | Supplementary information
See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Claeys & Goderis
Natural history and evolutionary principles of gene duplication in fungi p54
Ilan Wapinski, Avi Pfeffer, Nir Friedman & Aviv Regev
doi:10.1038/nature06107
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Glycosphingolipid synthesis requires FAPP2 transfer of glucosylceramide p62
Giovanni D'Angelo, Elena Polishchuk, Giuseppe Di Tullio, Michele Santoro, Antonella Di Campli, Anna Godi, Gun West, Jacek Bielawski, Chia-Chen Chuang, Aarnoud C. van der Spoel, Frances M. Platt, Yusuf A. Hannun, Roman Polishchuk, Peter Mattjus & Maria Antonietta De Matteis
doi:10.1038/nature06097
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See also: News and Views by Futerman
Letters
Entanglement of single-atom quantum bits at a distance p68
D. L. Moehring, P. Maunz, S. Olmschenk, K. C. Younge, D. N. Matsukevich, L.-M. Duan & C. Monroe
doi:10.1038/nature06118
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Control of the electronic phase of a manganite by mode-selective vibrational excitation p72
Matteo Rini, Ra'anan Tobey, Nicky Dean, Jiro Itatani, Yasuhide Tomioka, Yoshinori Tokura, Robert W. Schoenlein & Andrea Cavalleri
doi:10.1038/nature06119
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The potential for giant tsunamigenic earthquakes in the northern Bay of Bengal p75
Phil R. Cummins
doi:10.1038/nature06088
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See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Bondre
Raptorial jaws in the throat help moray eels swallow large prey p79
Rita S. Mehta & Peter C. Wainwright
doi:10.1038/nature06062
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See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Westneat
Genome-wide expression dynamics of a marine virus and host reveal features of co-evolution p83
Debbie Lindell, Jacob D. Jaffe, Maureen L. Coleman, Matthias E. Futschik, Ilka M. Axmann, Trent Rector, Gregory Kettler, Matthew B. Sullivan, Robert Steen, Wolfgang R. Hess, George M. Church & Sallie W. Chisholm
doi:10.1038/nature06130
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Cadherin 23 and protocadherin 15 interact to form tip-link filaments in sensory hair cells p87
Piotr Kazmierczak, Hirofumi Sakaguchi, Joshua Tokita, Elizabeth M. Wilson-Kubalek, Ronald A. Milligan, Ulrich Müller & Bechara Kachar
doi:10.1038/nature06091
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Temporal precision in the neural code and the timescales of natural vision p92
Daniel A. Butts, Chong Weng, Jianzhong Jin, Chun-I Yeh, Nicholas A. Lesica, Jose-Manuel Alonso & Garrett B. Stanley
doi:10.1038/nature06105
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Polo inhibits progenitor self-renewal and regulates Numb asymmetry by phosphorylating Pon p96
Hongyan Wang, Yingshi Ouyang, W. Gregory Somers, William Chia & Bingwei Lu
doi:10.1038/nature06056
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Fc receptor but not complement binding is important in antibody protection against HIV p101
Ann J. Hessell, Lars Hangartner, Meredith Hunter, Carin E. G. Havenith, Frank J. Beurskens, Joost M. Bakker, Caroline M. S. Lanigan, Gary Landucci, Donald N. Forthal, Paul W. H. I. Parren, Preston A. Marx & Dennis R. Burton
doi:10.1038/nature06106
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See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Mascola
p53 is regulated by the lysine demethylase LSD1 p105
Jing Huang, Roopsha Sengupta, Alexsandra B. Espejo, Min Gyu Lee, Jean A. Dorsey, Mario Richter, Susanne Opravil, Ramin Shiekhattar, Mark T. Bedford, Thomas Jenuwein & Shelley L. Berger
doi:10.1038/nature06092
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Naturejobs
ProspectProspect p109
US graduate education rebounds from effects of visa restrictions after 9/11. But how much has competition from abroad siphoned away talent?
Gene Russo
doi:10.1038/nj7158-109a
Special Report
Hydrogen hopes p110
Europe has started to invest in hydrogen, potentially paving the way for a fertile jobs market.
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/nj7158-110a
Career View
William Chameides, dean, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina p112
Former chief scientist at Environmental Defense heads to Duke University.
Virginia Gewin
doi:10.1038/nj7158-112a
Keep your eye on the goal p112
In my tortuous road to a biotech job, I learned some important job-hunting lessons.
Limor Chen
doi:10.1038/nj7158-112b
To teach or not to teach? p112
To get a teaching position I may have to cut down on my current teaching duties.
Chris Rowan
doi:10.1038/nj7158-112c
Highlights
Highlight on Canada
doi:10.1038/nj0169
Opportunities: The National Institutes of Health
doi:10.1038/nj0170
Futures
A bullet with your name on it p114
You have the right to remain silent.
David Hall
doi:10.1038/449114a
