Bioinformatics For Biodiversity

Diversity Digitized

Andrew Sugden and Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 29 September 2000: 2305.
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News

Taxonomic Revival

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 29 September 2000: 2306-2308.
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Fossil Databases Move to the Web

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 29 September 2000: 2307.
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Viewpoints

The Quiet Revolution: Biodiversity Informatics and the Internet

Frank A. Bisby
Science 29 September 2000: 2309-2312.
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Interoperability of Biodiversity Databases: Biodiversity Information on Every Desktop

James L. Edwards, Meredith A. Lane, and Ebbe S. Nielsen
Science 29 September 2000: 2312-2314.
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This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
A Global Biodiversity Map

Edward O. Wilson
Science 29 September 2000: 2279.
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Editors' Choice

Highlights of the recent literature.
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
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 Quarterly Author Index

Science 29 September 2000: 1-14.

 AAAS News & Notes

Science 29 September 2000: 2369.

 NEW PRODUCTS

Science 29 September 2000: 2371-2372.

News of the Week

DATA NETWORKS:
Scientists Weave New-Style Webs to Tame the Information Glut

David Voss
Science 29 September 2000: 2250-2251.
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DATA NETWORKS:
Downloading the Human Brain, With Security

Eliot Marshall
Science 29 September 2000: 2250.
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ANTHROPOLOGY:
Misconduct Alleged in Yanomamo Studies

Charles C. Mann
Science 29 September 2000: 2251-2253.
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PALEOFORENSICS:
Ice Man Warms Up for European Scientists

Richard Stone
Science 29 September 2000: 2253-2254.
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GENOMICS:
Structural Biology Gets a $150 Million Boost

Robert F. Service
Science 29 September 2000: 2254-2255.
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CEPHEID VARIABLES:
Astronomers Measure Size of a Giant's Sighs

Dana Mackenzie
Science 29 September 2000: 2255-2256.
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PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS:
Panel Cites Barriers to Government Service

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 29 September 2000: 2256.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
A New Look at How Neurons Compute

Marcia Barinaga
Science 29 September 2000: 2256-2257.
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ANTHROPOLOGY:
Bones Decision Rattles Researchers

Constance Holden
Science 29 September 2000: 2257.
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SWEDISH SCIENCE:
Funding Hike, With Strings Attached

Annika Nilsson and Joanna Rose
Science 29 September 2000: 2259.
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CONSERVATION BIOLOGY:
Group Urges Southwest Migration Corridors

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 29 September 2000: 2259.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

SCIENTIFIC PRIORITY:
CERN's Gamble Shows Perils, Rewards of Playing the Odds

Charles Seife
Science 29 September 2000: 2260-2262.
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SCIENTIFIC PRIORITY:
A Greek Letter, Demystified

Charles Seife
Science 29 September 2000: 2261.
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WEATHER MODIFICATION:
Salted Clouds Pour More Rain on Mexico

Richard A. Kerr
Science 29 September 2000: 2263-2264.
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MARINE MAMMALOGY:
Japan's Whaling Program Carries Heavy Baggage

Dennis Normile
Science 29 September 2000: 2264-2265.
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HAZARDOUS WASTE CLEANUP:
A Tentative Comeback for Bioremediation

Todd Zwillich
Science 29 September 2000: 2266-2267.
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY:
Critics Say Rulings Give State U. License to Steal

David Malakoff
Science 29 September 2000: 2267-2269.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 29 September 2000: 2281.
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 Aiding African Agriculture

Valerie S. Palmer, John Tor-Agbidye, and Peter S. Spencer
Science 29 September 2000: 2281.
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 Many Plans, One Bottom Line: Save Endangered Salmon

Peter Kareiva, Phillip S. Levin, Michelle M. McClure;, Scott Bosse;, Justin Hayes, Rob Masonis;, Charles C. Mann, and Mark L. Plummer
Science 29 September 2000: 2281-2283.
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 Thyroid Tumor Banks

G. A. Thomas and E. D. Williams
Science 29 September 2000: 2283.
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 The First Predictions

Robert L. Fleischer
Science 29 September 2000: 2283.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

Science 29 September 2000: 2283-2284.
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Books et al.

ANTHROPOLOGY:
Deep Thoughts on the Forbidden

Mary Douglas
Science 29 September 2000: 2288.
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CONSERVATION:
Against Triage

Stuart L. Pimm
Science 29 September 2000: 2289.
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

CLIMATE CHANGE:
Managing Carbon from the Bottom Up

M. Granger Morgan
Science 29 September 2000: 2285.
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CLIMATE CHANGE:
Equity and Greenhouse Gas Responsibility

Paul Baer, John Harte, Barbara Haya, Antonia V. Herzog, John Holdren, Nathan E. Hultman, Daniel M. Kammen, Richard B. Norgaard, and Leigh Raymond
Science 29 September 2000: 2287.
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Perspectives

TRANSCRIPTION:
New Insights into an Old Modification

Craig A. Mizzen and C. David Allis
Science 29 September 2000: 2290-2291.
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ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY:
Enhanced: The NO₂ Flux Conundrum

Manuel T. Lerdau, J. William Munger, and Daniel J. Jacob
Science 29 September 2000: 2291-2293.
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BIOMEDICINE:
Protein Loss in Cancer Cachexia

Michael J. Tisdale
Science 29 September 2000: 2293-2294.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING:
Separating Rare Earth Elements

Derek J. Fray
Science 29 September 2000: 2295-2296.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
An Accomplice for g-Secretase Brought into Focus

Sangram S. Sisodia
Science 29 September 2000: 2296-2297.
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Reports

Flashing Superluminal Components in the Jet of the Radio Galaxy 3C120

José-Luis Gómez, Alan P. Marscher, Antonio Alberdi, Svetlana G. Jorstad, and Cristina García-Miró
Science 29 September 2000: 2317-2320.
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Quantum Hall Ferromagnetism in a Two-Dimensional Electron System

J. Eom, H. Cho, W. Kang, K. L. Campman, A. C. Gossard, M. Bichler, and W. Wegscheider
Science 29 September 2000: 2320-2323.
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Imaging Coherent Electron Flow from a Quantum Point Contact

M. A. Topinka, B. J. LeRoy, S. E. J. Shaw, E. J. Heller, R. M. Westervelt, K. D. Maranowski, and A. C. Gossard
Science 29 September 2000: 2323-2326.
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Technique for Enhanced Rare Earth Separation

Tetsuya Uda, K. Thomas Jacob, and Masahiro Hirasawa
Science 29 September 2000: 2326-2329.
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A Mechanical Model for Intraplate Earthquakes: Application to the New Madrid Seismic Zone

Shelley J. Kenner and and Paul Segall
Science 29 September 2000: 2329-2332.
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Dating of Pore Waters with ¹²⁹I: Relevance for the Origin of Marine Gas Hydrates

Udo Fehn, Glen Snyder, and Per K. Egeberg
Science 29 September 2000: 2332-2335.
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Polyploidy and the Evolution of Gender Dimorphism in Plants

J. S. Miller and D. L. Venable
Science 29 September 2000: 2335-2338.
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Alteration of Stimulus-Specific Guard Cell Calcium Oscillations and Stomatal Closing in Arabidopsis det3 Mutant

Gethyn J. Allen, Sarah P. Chu, Karin Schumacher, Chad T. Shimazaki, Dionne Vafeados, Andrea Kemper, Scott D. Hawke, Gary Tallman, Roger Y. Tsien, Jeffrey F. Harper, Joanne Chory, and Julian I. Schroeder
Science 29 September 2000: 2338-2342.
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High Direct Estimate of the Mutation Rate in the Mitochondrial Genome of Caenorhabditis elegans

Dee R. Denver, Krystalynne Morris, Michael Lynch, Larissa L. Vassilieva, and W. Kelley Thomas
Science 29 September 2000: 2342-2344.
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Resetting of Circadian Time in Peripheral Tissues by Glucocorticoid Signaling

Aurélio Balsalobre, Steven A. Brown, Lysiane Marcacci, François Tronche, Christoph Kellendonk, Holger M. Reichardt, Günther Schütz, and Ueli Schibler
Science 29 September 2000: 2344-2347.
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Dendritic Computation of Direction Selectivity by Retinal Ganglion Cells

W. Rowland Taylor, Shigang He, William R. Levick, and David I. Vaney
Science 29 September 2000: 2347-2350.
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Failure to Regulate TNF-Induced NF-B and Cell Death Responses in A20-Deficient Mice

Eric G. Lee, David L. Boone, Sophia Chai, Shon L. Libby, Marcia Chien, James P. Lodolce, and Averil Ma
Science 29 September 2000: 2350-2354.
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A Specificity-Enhancing Factor for the ClpXP Degradation Machine

Igor Levchenko, Meredith Seidel, Robert T. Sauer, and Tania A. Baker
Science 29 September 2000: 2354-2356.
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Ubiquitin-Activating/Conjugating Activity of TAF_II250, a Mediator of Activation of Gene Expression in Drosophila

Anh-Dung Pham and Frank Sauer
Science 29 September 2000: 2357-2360.
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Active Remodeling of Somatic Nuclei in Egg Cytoplasm by the Nucleosomal ATPase ISWI

Nobuaki Kikyo, Paul A. Wade, Dmitry Guschin, Hui Ge, and Alan P. Wolffe
Science 29 September 2000: 2360-2362.
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NF-B-Induced Loss of MyoD Messenger RNA: Possible Role in Muscle Decay and Cachexia

Denis C. Guttridge, Marty W. Mayo, Lee V. Madrid, Cun-Yu Wang, and Albert S. Baldwin, Jr.
Science 29 September 2000: 2363-2366.
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Increase of Maximum Life-Span in Sweden, 1861-1999

J. R. Wilmoth, L. J. Deegan, H. Lundström, and S. Horiuchi
Science 29 September 2000: 2366-2368.
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