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Abstracts: Nutritional correlates of reproductive success of male Mediterranean fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae). Postcopulatory sexual selection in Mediterranean fruit flies: advantages for large and protein-fed males
Abstracts: Obituary: Eduard Kellenberger (1920-2004). Carl-Ivar Branden (1934-2004). Maurice Wilkins (1916-2004)
Abstracts: OBITUARY: F. Clark Howell (1925-2007). A new species of great ape from the late Miocene epoch in Ethiopia. Pleistocene Homo sapiens from Middle Awash, Ethiopia
Abstracts: OBITUARY: Ransom Aldrich Myers (1952-2007). Obituary: Jean Brossel (1918-2003). Obituary: Tom Kilburn (1921-2001)
Abstracts: Objections to Japan's system. Japanese universities are slow to welcome foreign faculty. Japan increases share of Human Frontier awards
Abstracts: Obligate cave fauna of the 48 contiguous United States. Extinction rates of North American freshwater fauna. Effects of forest roads on macroinvertebrate soil fauna of the Southern Appalachian mountains
Abstracts: Obligate monogamy without paternal care in Kirk's dikdik. No relationship between territory size and the risk of cuckoldry in birds
Abstracts: Oblique rifting in a slow-spreading ridge. Compositions of near-solidus peridotite melts from experiments and thermodynamic calculations
Abstracts: Oblique rifting in a slow-spreading ridge. Spreading rate dependence of gravity anomalies along oceanic transform faults
Abstracts: Obliquity pacing of the late Pleistocene glacial terminations. Links between annual, Milankovitch and continuum temperature variability
Abstracts: Observational confirmation of a circumsolar dust ring by the COBE satellite. Re-entry and ablation of cometary dust in the impact plumes of Shoemaker-Levy 9
Abstracts: Observational spatial memory in Clark's nutcrackers and Mexican jays. Clark's nutcracker spatial memory: many errors might not be due to forgetting
Abstracts: Observation of entanglement between a single trapped atom and a single photon. A scalable quantum computer with ions in an array of microtraps
Abstracts: Observation of Feshbach resonances in a Bose-Einstein condensate. Skyrmions in a ferromagnetic Bose-Einstein condensate
Abstracts: Observation of five-fold local symmetry in liquid lead. Entangled atomic samples. Freezing by heating
Abstracts: Observation of magnetically induced transverse diffusion of light. Enantioselective magnetochiral photochemistry
Abstracts: Observation of moist convection in Jupiter's atmosphere. Moist convection as an energy source for the large-scale motions in Jupiter's atmosphere
Abstracts: Observation of negative electron-binding energy in a molecule. Archetypal energy landscapes
Abstracts: Observation of random-phase lattice solitons. Transport and Anderson localization in disordered two-dimensional photonic lattices
Abstracts: Observation of rare-earth segregation in silicon nitride ceramics at subnanometre dimensions. Automata make antisense
Abstracts: Observation of shell structure in sodium nanowires. Carbon nanotubule membranes for electrochemical energy storage and production
Abstracts: Observation of smectic and moving-Bragg-glass phases in flowing vortex lattices. Dynamic instabilities and memory effects in vortex matter
Abstracts: Observation of spin Coulomb drag in a two-dimensional electron gas. Coherent spin manipulation without magnetic fields in strained semiconductors
Abstracts: Observation of square flux-line lattice in the unconventional superconductor Sr(sub2)RuO(sub4). A coherent three-dimensional fermi surface in a high-transition-temperature superconductor
Abstracts: Observer bias in anuran call surveys. Evaluation of noninvasive genetic sampling methods for felid and canid populations
Abstracts: Observer gender and observation bias in animal behavior research: Experimental tests with red-backed salamanders
Abstracts: Occurrence of moths in boreal forest corridors. Managing Boreal forest landscapes for flying squirrels. Responses by breeding birds to heterospecific song and mobbing call playbacks under varying predation risk
Abstracts: Ocean drilling enters choppy waters as France and UK question strategy. France: Gaullist legacy casts a long shadow
Abstracts: Oceanic migration in homing Atlantic salmon. Three-dimensional microhabitat use by young pool-dwelling Atlantic salmon and brown trout
Abstracts: Ocean margins as a significant source of organic matter to the deep open ocean. Variable ageing and storage of dissolved organic components in the open ocean
Abstracts: Ocean researchers make waves in quest for funds and military data. Ocean researchers dive to deep-sea stations
Abstracts: Oceans cool off in hottest years. The new face of the Arctic. Gas leak!
Abstracts: Oceans of change. Paleoclimate: When the world turned cold. Models come in from the cold
Abstracts: Ocular regression conceals adaptive progression of the visual system in a blind subterranean mammal. An artic mammal fauna from the early pliocene of North America
Abstracts: Odd company. Suppression of Raf-1 kinase activity and MAP kinase signalling by RKIP. A dark jet dominates the power output of the stellar black hole Cygnus X-1
Abstracts: Odour encoding by temporal sequences of firing in oscillating neural assemblies. Hebbian STDP in mushroom bodies facilitates the synchronous flow of olfactory information in locusts
Abstracts: Odour similarities as a basis for discriminating degrees of kinship in rodents: Evidence from Mus spicilegus. Male and female mound-building mice, Mus spicilegus, discriminate dietary and individual odours of conspecifics
Abstracts: Oestrogen and mental state. An intermolecular (H2O)10 cluster in a solid-state supramolecular complex. Microsecond-resolved XAFS of the triplet excited state of Pt2(P2O5H2)4-/4
Abstracts: Of dusty tori and black holes. Correlated fast X-ray and optical variability in the black-hole candidate XTE J118+480
Abstracts: Off and on reflection. Shark skin and other solutions. Science in motion
Abstracts: Off by a whisker. Electric current captures top sperm. Coral reveals ancient origins of human genes
Abstracts: Of fingers, toes and penises. The quirks of jerks. Asymmetric toes aid underwater swimming
Abstracts: Offspring quality and female choice in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata. Reversal of female preference after visual exposure to a predator in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata
Abstracts: Off the rails: Aviation's role in climate change is causing a storm. Murder by medicine
Abstracts: Of great tits and fleas: sleep baby sleep.... Evidence for an important social role of allogrooming in a platyrrhine primate
Abstracts: Of great tits and fleas: sleep baby sleep.... Parental behaviour is unrelated to experimentally manipulated great tit brood sex ratio
Abstracts: Of ice and elephants. Iron uncertainty. Possible displacement of the climate signal in ancient ice by premelting and anomalous diffusion
Abstracts: Of it, not above it. Resistance to mantle flow inferred from the electromagnetic strike of the Australian upper mantle
Abstracts: Of mice and men? A new photoreactivating enzyme that specifically repairs ultraviolet light-induced (6-4)photoproducts
Abstracts: Of mice and the MHC. Green beard as death warrant. Tetramer data reinterpreted
Abstracts: Of mice, monkeys and men. HIV: to vaccinate or not to vaccinate? Tat protein of HIV-1 stimulates growth of cells derived from Kaposi's sarcoma lesions of AIDS patients
Abstracts: Oil and combustion-product contamination of the Gulf marine environment following the war. The stress of Gulf War syndrome
Abstracts: Oil biodegradation around roots. Eminent Victorians and science at the grass roots. The search for autism's roots
Abstracts: Oiling up against skin cancer. Paddlefish shun metal. Big chill for big bird
Abstracts: Oil rich, science poor. Smithsonian looks beyond ousted boss. What is there to fear from something so small?
Abstracts: Oil spill fouls wildlife refuge. 1997 refuges calendar available. Tracking contaminants in fish, wildlife and on refuges with the BEST program
Abstracts: Oil spill threatens Japanese nuclear plants. Election tonic for Japanese science funding. Soccer boom may score for Japanese science
Abstracts: Okavango elephants. Rock, paper, scissors. Elephants are walking paper mills
Abstracts: Old, colorful male yellowhammers, Emberzia citrinella, benefit from extra-pair copulations. Escape flights of yellowhammers and greenfinches: More than just physics
Abstracts: Older is better: Beaver ponds on boreal streams as breeding habitat for the wood frog. Range and habitat selection of African Buffalo in South Africa
Abstracts: Oldest fossil record of gliding in rodents. Portrait of a suburban family. High-level similarity of dentitions in carnivorans and rodents
Abstracts: Oldest known fossils of monocotyledons. Three-dimensional preservation of algae and animal embryos in a Neoproterozoic phosphorite
Abstracts: Oldest known sea turtle. Type III InsP(sub3) receptor channel stays open in the presence of increased calcium
Abstracts: Oldest playable musical instruments found at Jiahu early Neolithic site in China. Millet noodles in late Neolithic China
Abstracts: Oldest record of a bisexual plant. The vertebrate track record. Longevity record for deep-sea invertebrate
Abstracts: Oldest stars are older still. Discovery of three lead-rich stars. Measurement of stellar age from uranium decay
Abstracts: Old head on young shoulders. Origin of patterning in neural tubes. The future of evolutionary developmental biology
Abstracts: Old world monkey vocalization: adaptation to the local habitat? Activity patterns, habitat use and mortality risks of mangabey males living outside social groups
Abstracts: Olfactory traces and spatial learning in rats. Long-term memory for a spatial task in young chicks. Field experiments on duration and precision of grey and red squirrel spatial memory
Abstracts: Oligomerization activates c-Raf-1 through a Ras-dependent mechanism. A dimeric 14-3-3 protein is an essential cofactor for Raf kinase activity
Abstracts: Oligophrenin-1 encodes a rhoGAP protein involved in X-linked mental retardation. GATA3 haplo-insufficiency causes human HDR syndrome
Abstracts: Olivine emerges from isolation. Unmixing of hot inorganic melts. Possible presence of high-pressure ice in cold subducting slabs
Abstracts: Olympus finds market rival hard to swallow. Meat meter measures marbled muscles. Fluid movement
Abstracts: On being a birder...or not. Fishing for enlightenment. Ambassador from the roof of the world
Abstracts: On being pro-thought. Remembering the animals. Learning from debate
Abstracts: On being vegan. Absolutely no-kill: maintaining a vegan sanctuary. Vegan Visions
Abstracts: On border patrol. WHO calls for vaccine boost to prepare for flu pandemic. Food panel calls for beefed up response to mad cow disease
Abstracts: Oncogenic activity of Cdc6 through repression of the INK4/ARF locus. Policing of oncogene activity by p53
Abstracts: Oncoprotein MDM2 conceals the activation domain of tumour suppressor p53. Surfing the P53 network
Abstracts: Oncoproteins: GAPs in understanding Ras. Negative regulation of human c-fos expression by the retinoblastoma gene product
Abstracts: On designs for testing the effect of song repertoire size. Extended song learning in wild European starlings. Response of eastern chipmunks to conspecific alarm calls
Abstracts: One for all - and all for one. German astronomers fight rumoured closing of institute
Abstracts: One into two will go. Battle of the sexes. Haldane's rule has multiple genetic causes
Abstracts: One man's trash. Winds of change blow away the cobwebs on campus. Dispute over data privacy halts cancer study
Abstracts: One nest at a time. Diver: A brown bear swims for salmon in Katmai, Alaska. Colobus congregations: primate society in Rwanda's Nyungwe Forest
Abstracts: One neuron, many units? Sorting out the neuron. Neuronal self-reliance
Abstracts: One of our planets is missing. Compact protoplanetary disks around the stars of a young binary system. Continuous excitation of planetary free oscillations by atmospheric disturbances
Abstracts: One slip, and you're dead ........ A lower limit for atmospheric carbon dioxide levels 3.2 billion years ago. Biological chemistry: a glass bead game
Abstracts: One slip, and you're dead ........ The art of restoration. Frame dragging confirmed
Abstracts: One step to Earth. Silicate regulation of new production in the equatorial Pacific upwelling. Seismic and geochemical evidence for large-scale mantle upwelling beneath the eastern Atlantic and western and central Europe
Abstracts: One-stop shop for microarray data: is a universal, public DNA-microarray database a realistic goal? Single-molecule analysis of DNA uncoiling by a type II topoisomerase
Abstracts: One-strided waggle dance in bees. Flies go with the flow. Spanwise flow and the attachment of the leading-edge cortex on insect wings
Abstracts: One substance, two liquids? Absence of thermodynamic phase transition in a model glass former. Supercooled liquids and the glass transition
Abstracts: One thousand families for the molecular biologist. Identification of the receptor component of the IkappaBalpha-ubiquitin ligase
Abstracts: One way out of a patent quagmire. Not enough places to go in Europe. Patent for a mouse: Europe is making heavy weather of the patenting of transgenic animals and plants
Abstracts: One wiley fox. Vultures on the verge. Constipation adaptation?
Abstracts: On improving telemetry-based survival estimation. Evaluation of potential factors predisposing livestock to predation by jaguars
Abstracts: Online access offers fresh scope for bug identification. Tissue survey raises spectre of 'second wave' of vCJD
Abstracts: Online methods share insider tricks. A life online. First chapter of book of life goes live
Abstracts: Only a matter of time. Time's broken arrow. Two is the magic number
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