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Abstracts: Why do male birds not discriminate between their own and extra-pair offspring? Studying paternity and paternal care: pitfalls and problems
Abstracts: Why don't plants get cancer? Degradation of the cyclin-dependent-kinase inhibitor p27Kip1 is instigated by Jab1
Abstracts: Why do yellow-bellied marmots call? Yellow-bellied marmots discriminate between the alarm calls of individuals and are more responsive to calls from juveniles
Abstracts: Why drinking green tea could prevent cancer. Preventing cancer. The sounds of silence
Abstracts: Why 'false' colours are seen by butterflies. Thermally induced ultrasonic emission from porous silicon. Ultrasonic hearing in nocturnal butterflies: Hedylids have ultrasound-sensitive ears on their wings to help them avoid bats
Abstracts: Why fight? Socially dominant jackdaws, Corvus monedula, have low fitness. Socially acquired information from chemical cues in the common lizard, Lacerta vivipara
Abstracts: Why is double clutching rare in the Majorcan midwife toad? Sexual selection constrained by internal fertilization in the livebearing fish Xenotoca eiseni
Abstracts: Why Japan ought to legalize the Pill. Ethical discourse by science-in-fiction: It can be difficult to discuss ethical dilemmas in the academic environment. One way of doing it is through 'science-in-fiction'
Abstracts: Why listing may be forever: perspectives on delisting under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Discrepancies in Reported Levels of International Wildlife Trade
Abstracts: Why not plutonium? Pore show. An expanding view of plutonium
Abstracts: Why pebbles float to the surface. Genetics helping molecular dynamics. Fred Hoyle (1915-2001)
Abstracts: Why poor logging practices persist in the tropics. Seed removal and fate in two selectively logged lowland forests with constrasting protection levels
Abstracts: Why the long latent period? Mimicking ligands. Do antibodies enhance the infection of cells by HIV?
Abstracts: Why those who would save the world cannot. The making of a magazine. It's a man's world
Abstracts: Why thumbs are up? Too much sex is bad for males. Living with bad architecture
Abstracts: Why voles stick together. Group living and hungry lions. The voles of Hokkaido
Abstracts: Why wildlife matters in Sudan. Making scents. Dog days
Abstracts: Wide-angle lens. The uses of strong and weak lenses
Abstracts: Widespread magma oceans on asteroidal bodies in the early Solar System. Discovery of the triple asteroidal system 87 Sylvia
Abstracts: Wildfire, Fuel Reduction, and Herpetofaunas across Diverse Landscape Mosaics in Northwestern Forests. Forest Restoration and Fire: Principles in the Context of Place
Abstracts: Wildlife and Nahanni Park Reserve, Northwest territories, Canada. Conkouati-Douli
Abstracts: Wildlife caught in crossfire of US immigration battle. Green activists enlist penguins to save the world. Merck opts for shake-up to clear drug pipeline
Abstracts: Wildlife hits the wall. Trump of the trumpeter. A world under a rock: when the tide withdraws in the upper Gulf of California, a living laboratory of marine animals is uncovered
Abstracts: Wildlife regime in the Boreal forest and the idea of suppression and fuel buildup. The use of full-time volunteers and interns by natural resource professionals
Abstracts: Wildlife regime in the Boreal forest and the idea of suppression and fuel buildup. part 2 Forest edges as nutrient and pollutant concentrators: potential synergisms between fragmentation, forest canopies, and the atmosphere
Abstracts: Wildlife survival beyond park boundaries: the impact of slash-and-burn agriculture and hunting in mammals in Tambopata, Peru
Abstracts: Wildlife under fire: charred land in Yellowstone became a symbol of renewal. Highway madness
Abstracts: Wildlife watching in southern Connecticut. Something to grouse about. Can we make "humane" one of the H-words?
Abstracts: Wild turkey population dynamics in southwestern Wisconsin. Reproductive ecology of eastern wild turkeys in southwestern Wisconsin
Abstracts: Wild turkey poult survival in southcentral Iowa. Evaluation of transmitter attachment techniques on growth of wild turkey poults
Abstracts: Will biomedicine outgrow support? Taking the pressure off. Cause of neural death in neurodegenerative diseases attributable to expansion of glutamine repeats
Abstracts: Will el Lobo return? Grizzlies in Swan Valley. The endangered birds of Balcones Canyonlands NWR
Abstracts: William J. Loeffel, 1894-1962: A brief biography. Howard J. Gramlich, 1889-1985: a brief biography. H.H. Kildee, 1884-1973: a brief biography
Abstracts: Will medics' qualms kill the death penalty? Showdown for Capitol Hill. Bush accused of trying to foist favourites on health agency
Abstracts: Will soil amplify climate change? Carbon sinks threatened by increasing ozone. Reduction of soil carbon formation by tropospheric ozone under increased carbon dioxide levels
Abstracts: Will space-based astronomy give value for money? ESO negotiates with Chile over agreement on telescopes. Conflict over scope of research splits Human Frontier programme
Abstracts: Will the availability of insular nesting sites limit reproduction in urban Canada goose populations? Effectiveness of volatile irritants at reducing consumption of eggs by captive coyotes
Abstracts: Will there ever be peace in Europe? Eradication of rabies in Europe. Europe can benefit from East-West collaboration rather than globalization
Abstracts: Wind-dominated optical line emission from accretion disks around luminous cataclysmic variable stars. Origin of the cataclysmic late heavy bombardment period of the terrestrial planets
Abstracts: Wind energy development and wildlife conservation: challenges and opportunities. A framework for monitoring multiple-species conservation plans
Abstracts: Windows on the brain. Mexican science waits to see if election promises are met. The sandman's secrets
Abstracts: Windows on the water. Mermaid mysteries: Looking for dugongs in the Indian Ocean. The tsunami and the Onge: The day the land became water
Abstracts: Winds of change. Into the eye of the storm. Creating the perfect wave
Abstracts: Wind speeds measured in the deep Jovian atmosphere by Galileo probe accelerometers. Europa's oxygen atmosphere
Abstracts: wingless refines its own expression domain on the Drosophila wing margin. Evidence that stem cells reside in the adult Drosophila midgut epithelium
Abstracts: Wing upstroke and the evolution of flapping flight. Impact energy measurement in time-of-flight mass spectrometry with cryogenic microcalorimeters
Abstracts: Winning the drugs war. Identification of an anti-malarial synthetic trioxolane drug development candidate. A worthy adversary for malaria
Abstracts: Winter behavior of desert tortoises in southcentral Nevada. Genetic structure and evidence of a local bottleneck in moose in Sweden
Abstracts: Winter dialects in the bronzed cowbird and their relationship to breeding-season dialects. How selfish is a cowbird nestling?
Abstracts: Winter feeding ecology of northern shovelers on freshwater and saline wetlands in south Texas. Exposure to volatile d-pulegone alters feeding behavior in European starlings
Abstracts: Winter foraging ecology of moose on glyphosate-treated clearcuts in Maine. Study designs and tests for comparing resource use and availability II
Abstracts: Winter forest soil respiration controlled by climate and microbial community composition. The long-term carbon cycle, fossil fuels and atmospheric composition
Abstracts: Winter habitat selection by Canada lynx in Maine: prey abundance or accessibility? Influence of partial timber harvesting on American martens in north-central Maine
Abstracts: Winter habitat selection by Sitka black-tailed deer. A spatial model of potential jaguar habitat in Arizona. Recruitment dynamics of black-tailed deer in the western cascades
Abstracts: Wintering diving duck use of coastal ponds: an analysis of alternative hypotheses. Foods used by male mallards wintering in southeastern Missouri
Abstracts: Wintering waterbird use of two aquatic plant habitats in a southern reservoir. Frequency of nest box maintenance: effects on wood duck nesting in South Carolina
Abstracts: Winter prey selection and estimation of wolf kill rates in Yellowstone National Park, 1995-2000. Winter severity and wolf predation on a formerly wolf-free elk herd
Abstracts: Winter roosting ecology of eastern red bats in Southwest Missouri. Interspecific and intersexual variation in roost-site selection of Northern long-eared and little brown bats in the Greater Fundy National Park ecosystem
Abstracts: Winter's tail. Singing in the sea. When rhinos fly
Abstracts: Winter survival of adult female Harlequin Ducks in relation to history of contamination by the Exxon Valdez oi spill
Abstracts: Wise fathers. Decisions about parental care in response to perceived paternity. Sexually antagonistic genetic variation for fitness in red deer
Abstracts: Wit and wisdom. Making waves. A clash of two cultures
Abstracts: Without a way to measure their success, Japanese projects are very hard to stop. Japanese physicists say SSC will hurt domestic research
Abstracts: Witwatersrand seeks to defuse 'race row.' (University of Witwatersrand) Black scientist faces inquiry at South African university
Abstracts: WNT7b mediates macrophage-induced programmed cell death in patterning of the vasculaturea. Neural crest origins of the neck and shoulder
Abstracts: Wnt-mediated axon guidance via the Drosophila derailed receptor. Delta-promoted filopodia mediate long-range lateral inhibition in Drosophila
Abstracts: Wobbly oscillations. Found in translation. Politics, morals and embryos
Abstracts: Wolbachia-induced incompatibility precedes other hybrid incompatibilities in Nasonia. Symbiotic solution to arsenic contamination
Abstracts: Wolf depredation trends and the use of fladry barriers to protect livestock in western North America. Impacts of the brown tree snake: patterns of decline and species persistence in Guam's avifauna
Abstracts: Wolf reintroduction approved for Yellowstone and central Idaho. A reintroduction program for the conservation of the black howler monkey in Belize
Abstracts: Wolverine conservation and management. Inferring geographic isolation of wolverines in California using historical DNA
Abstracts: Wolves, outreach, and rural Idaho. Life on the windiest peak. Taking an ecosystem approach
Abstracts: Woman's meat, a man's poison. The book of genes. Genome analysis
Abstracts: Women in science: discrimination against women in science is wrong but so is a quota system. Privatization goes wrong
Abstracts: Wood duck brood movements and habitat use on prairie rivers in South Dakota. Effects of phorate on ducklings in northern prairie wetlands
Abstracts: Woodpecker population drills. Wide diversity of Crenarchaeota. Birds in double trouble
Abstracts: Woodpigeons nesting in association with hobby falcons: advantages and choice rules. Assessing the degree of association in groups of animals using the concept of entropy
Abstracts: Woodstock of physics revisited. (Confirmation of high temperature superconductivity). Superconductivity at 52 K in hole-doped C60
Abstracts: Wood thrush population sinks and implications for the scale of regional conservation strategies. Evaluating Great Smoky Mountains national park as a population source for the wood thrush
Abstracts: Words and rules in the human brain. Talk of genetics and vice versa. Survival of the clearest: There are now fossils to show how language evolved
Abstracts: Worker reproduction and social hierarchies in Leptothorax ants. Reproductive conflicts and mutilation in queenless Diacamma ants
Abstracts: Working for food under conditions of varying motivation in broilers. Superparasitism acceptance and patch-leaving mechanisms in parasitoids: A comparison between two sympatric wasps
Abstracts: Working in a wider Europe. Research heads seek European platform. New EC commissioner is seen as friend of basic research
Abstracts: Working in the chemical industry. Working double-blind. Working backwards to find answers
Abstracts: Working with local communities to safeguard Fiji's seascapes. In search of the spectacled bear: exploring the Central Andes of Colombia
Abstracts: Working with the Navy in San Diego. Partnering with the Army in Georgia. Defense Department's Biodiversity Initiative
Abstracts: World Animal Awareness Week. Veganism as the path to animal liberation. World laboratory animal liberation week
Abstracts: World Bank calls for a fairer deal on patents and knowledge. The seed-storing corvid Clark's nutcracker learns geometric relationships among landmarks
Abstracts: World Bank renews its support for Brazil. Brazil's science budget looks good - on paper. British are helping to build Amazonian research station
Abstracts: World heritage status and conservation of southern ocean islands. Integrating costs of conservation into international priority setting
Abstracts: World of birds. Gardeners' Eden. Protecting birds of paradise
Abstracts: Worlds apart. Neutrino probes of dark energy. On the trail of the neutrino
Abstracts: Worlds in common through NF-kappa-B. Hox9 genes and vertebrate limb specification. A tool for transgenesis
Abstracts: Worm holes and avian space-time: Can animals remember where and when events happened? A study of birds that hoard and then retrieve their foods shows they can, and may ultimately provide clues about how human memories are formed
Abstracts: Wrestling with kinesin. Making connections count. Variations on the theme of movement
Abstracts: Written in the blood. Developing themes. Growth industry
Abstracts: WW domains and retrovirus budding. Crystal structure of a Src-homology 3 (SH3) domain. Structure of the WW domain of a kinase-associated protein complexed with-a proline-rich peptide
Abstracts: Wza the translocon for E. coli capsular polysaccharides defines a new class of membrane protein. Crystal structure and mechanism of a bacterial fluorinating enzyme
Abstracts: X-activation profile reveals extensive variability in X-linked gene expression in females. Tales of the Y chromosome
Abstracts: Xenotransplant experts face good and bad news. Africa pursues goal of scientific unity. A continent divided
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