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Taken together with the previous results, these findings emphasize the importance of a father's age for the risk of their offspring developing schizophrenia and autism.       Earth & Environmental Sciences More Earth & Environmental sciences ▼   Long-term decline of global atmospheric ethane concentrations and implications for methane   Ethane is the most abundant non-methane hydrocarbon in the remote atmosphere and is a precursor to tropospheric ozone. This paper presents the longest continuous record of global atmospheric ethane levels and finds that global ethane emission rates decreased by 21% between 1984 and 2010. This decline can be attributed to reduced emissions from fossil fuel sources. Ethane's major emission sources are shared with methane, suggesting that reduced fugitive fossil fuel emissions also account for much of the decrease in methane's global emissions.       Biological Sciences More Biological sciences ▼   The protein kinase Pstol1 from traditional rice confers tolerance of phosphorus deficiency   Rice is a staple crop for much of Asia but rice yields in the region are often low due to limited availability of phosphorus. Sigrid Heuer and colleagues report the characterization of a gene, phosphorus-starvation tolerance 1 (PSTOL1), that confers tolerance to phosphorus deficiency. The gene is present in the traditional rice variety Kasalath but absent from many modern varieties. PSTOL1 enhances early root growth, enabling plants to acquire more phosphorus and other nutrients. Introduction of this gene into locally adapted rice varieties should enhance productivity in poor soils.                   Nurture your career with the new-look Naturejobs As the world's largest dedicated jobs boards for the scientific community, Naturejobs is the ideal resource to build your career. Our new and improved functionality enables you to search, save and apply for jobs quickly and easily. Search over 10,000 vacancies to find exactly the right job for you at: www.naturejobs.com                 Podcast & Video     In this week's podcast: how dad's age can affect baby's risk of disease, the effects of antibiotics in early life, and the latest on the Himalayan glaciers.         News & Comment Read daily news coverage▶ ▲top             THIS WEEK           Editorial                   Social dimensions to biodiversity ▶     The international body set up to address the loss of biodiversity must take account of more than just science if it is to fulfil its mission.             The name game ▶     Nomenclature rules can disrupt planetary scientists' fun, but they serve a purpose.             World View                   Sometimes science must give way to religion ▶     The Higgs boson, and its role in  providing a rational explanation for the Universe, is only part of the story,  says Daniel Sarewitz.             Seven Days                   Seven days: 17–23 August 2012 ▶     The week in science: Gene patents upheld again; NASA picks next Mars mission; and Australia's plans to control tobacco survive legal challenge.           NEWS IN FOCUS           Test lakes face closure ▶     Slashed funding threatens Canada's unique freshwater study site.             Fathers bequeath more mutations as they age ▶     Genome study may explain links between paternal age and conditions such as autism.              US telescopes face up to agency cuts ▶     Six observatories run by the National Science Foundation should be jettisoned in favour of new facilities, says panel.             Republican spending plan casts shadow on science ▶     Romney's running mate, Paul Ryan, wants to curb expenditure on non-defence research.             Space missions trigger map wars ▶     Planetary explorers rebel against nomenclature protocols.             Companies set to fight food-label plan ▶     California's Proposition 37 would add labels to all foods made from genetically modified crops.             Features                   Tissue engineering: The brainmaker ▶     With his knack for knowing what stem cells want, Yoshiki Sasai has grown an eye and parts of a brain in a dish.             Computational social science: Making the Links ▶     From e-mails to social networks, the digital traces left by life in the modern world are transforming social science.           COMMENT           Research collaboration: When international partnerships go wrong ▶     David Southwood draws lessons from a crisis-ridden year for European cooperation in space.             Conservation policy: Listen to the voices of experience ▶     The intergovernmental body for biodiversity must draw on a much broader range of knowledge and stakeholders than the IPCC, say Esther Turnhout and colleagues.             Books and Arts                   Anatomy: Flayed, pickled, plastinated ▶     Ewen Callaway discovers compelling cross-currents in two very different displays of dead animals exhibited just a few kilometres apart.             Fiction: New moral arbiters ▶     Jennifer Rohn enjoys an epic novel about scientists, the media, ethics and society.             Computer science: Algorithmic rapture ▶     Philip Ball listens in on an album of evolved music composed by the Darwinian computer program Iamus.             Correspondence                   Olympics: Some facts about Ye Shiwen's swim Weimin Zhong, Hao Wu & Linheng Li | Organ donation: Stricter management of organ transplants Alois Gratwohl           Obituary                   Sally Ride (1951–2012) ▶     Physicist, education advocate and first US woman in space.             Correction                   Correction ▶                 Biological Sciences ▲top             RESEARCH           Latest Online                   Autistic-like behaviour in Scn1a+/− mice and rescue by enhanced GABA-mediated neurotransmission ▶     Sung Han, Chao Tai, Ruth E. Westenbroek, Frank H. Yu, Christine S. Cheah et al.     Haploinsufficiency of the gene SCN1A (SCN1A+/−) causes Dravet’s syndrome in humans, a form of epilepsy with autistic features; this paper shows that Scn1a+/− mice have the same symptoms, and that social behaviours can be improved by pharmacological treatment with clonazepam.             Antibiotics in early life alter the murine colonic microbiome and adiposity ▶     Ilseung Cho, Shingo Yamanishi, Laura Cox, Barbara A. Methé, Jiri Zavadil et al.     Treatment of young mice with low levels of antibiotics results in increases in adiposity and causes both a change in the composition of the intestinal microbial community and an alteration in the activity of microbial metabolic pathways, leading to increased short-chain fatty acid production.             Set2 methylation of histone H3 lysine 36 suppresses histone exchange on transcribed genes ▶     Swaminathan Venkatesh, Michaela Smolle, Hua Li, Madelaine M. Gogol, Malika Saint et al.     In yeast, histone H3 lysine 36 methylation can suppress the incorporation of acetylated histones by inhibiting histone exchange in transcribed genes, thus preventing spurious cryptic transcripts from initiating within open reading frames.             T cells become licensed in the lung to enter the central nervous system ▶     Francesca Odoardi, Christopher Sie, Kristina Streyl, Vijay K. Ulaganathan, Christian Schläger et al.     A Lewis rat model of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis is used to show that on their way to the CNS, encephalitogenic T-cell blasts are temporarily resident in the lung, where they reprogram their gene-expression profile and functional properties to enable them to transgress the blood–brain barrier into the CNS.             Endogenous antigen tunes the responsiveness of naive B cells but not T cells ▶     Julie Zikherman, Ramya Parameswaran & Arthur Weiss     Mature B cells encounter antigens during development that induce anergy or functional unresponsiveness; this large reservoir of dormant autoreactive B cells may serve as a pool of extended antibody specificity for purposes of protective immunity, as well as the source of pathogenic autoantibodies that characterize rheumatic diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus.             Early-stage epigenetic modification during somatic cell reprogramming by Parp1 and Tet2 ▶     Claudia A. Doege, Keiichi Inoue, Toru Yamashita, David B. Rhee, Skylar Travis et al.     Parp1 and Tet2 mediate essential epigenetic remodelling events in an early phase of induced pluripotent stem cell reprogramming, thus directing subsequent induction of the pluripotency loci.             Dopamine neurons modulate pheromone responses in Drosophila courtship learning ▶     Krystyna Keleman, Eleftheria Vrontou, Sebastian Krüttner, Jai Y. Yu, Amina Kurtovic-Kozaric et al.     Young male fruitflies learn to avoid futile courtship of non-virgin females because the latter are scented with the male pheromone cis-vaccenyl acetate; this behaviour results from an increase in the males’ innate sensitivity for the pheromone and is controlled by a small set of dopaminergic neurons.             Rapid induction of inflammatory lipid mediators by the inflammasome in vivo ▶     Jakob von Moltke, Norver J. Trinidad, Mahtab Moayeri, Alexander F. Kintzer, Samantha B. Wang et al.     Induction of an eicosanoid storm is shown to be an unexpected consequence of inflammasome activation in peritoneal macrophages, leading to vascular leakage and rapid death in mice.             Articles and Letters                   Rate of de novo mutations and the importance of father’s age to disease risk ▶     Augustine Kong, Michael L. Frigge, Gisli Masson, Soren Besenbacher, Patrick Sulem et al.     Whole-genome sequencing of 78 Icelandic parent–offspring trios is used to study the de novo mutation rate at the genome-wide level; the rate is shown to increase by about two mutations a year as a function of the increasing age of the father at conception, highlighting the importance of father’s age on the risk of diseases such as autism and schizophrenia.             Mutations in the profilin 1 gene cause familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ▶     Chi-Hong Wu, Claudia Fallini, Nicola Ticozzi, Pamela J. Keagle, Peter C. Sapp et al.     Mutations in the profilin 1 (PFN1) gene, which is crucial for the conversion of monomeric to filamentous actin, can cause familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, suggesting that alterations in cytoskeletal pathways contribute to disease pathogenesis.             Chromatin organization is a major influence on regional mutation rates in human cancer cells ▶     Benjamin Schuster-Böckler & Ben Lehner     Mutation rates in cancer genomes are closely related to chromatin organization, indicating that the arrangement of the genome into heterochromatin- and euchromatin-like domains may be a dominant influence on variation in regional mutation rate in human somatic cells.             TNF receptor 1 genetic risk mirrors outcome of anti-TNF therapy in multiple sclerosis ▶     Adam P. Gregory, Calliope A. Dendrou, Kathrine E. Attfield, Aiden Haghikia, Dionysia K. Xifara et al.     Genome-wide association studies in combination with functional analyses identify a genetic variant that explains why anti-tumour necrosis factor therapy, used in several autoimmune diseases, exacerbates multiple sclerosis.             A subset of dopamine neurons signals reward for odour memory in Drosophila ▶     Chang Liu, Pierre-Yves Plaçais, Nobuhiro Yamagata, Barret D. Pfeiffer, Yoshinori Aso et al.     A group of dopamine neurons that are distinct from those mediating aversive reinforcement is found to signal sugar reward in the fly brain, highlighting the evolutionarily conserved function of dopamine neurons in reward processing.             Protocadherins mediate dendritic self-avoidance in the mammalian nervous system ▶     Julie L. Lefebvre, Dimitar Kostadinov, Weisheng V. Chen, Tom Maniatis & Joshua R. Sanes     Protocadherins are found to potentially provide the molecular diversity and complexity required to promote dendritic self-avoidance in mouse retina and cerebellum.             A restricted cell population propagates glioblastoma growth after chemotherapy ▶     Jian Chen, Yanjiao Li, Tzong-Shiue Yu, Renée M. McKay, Dennis K. Burns et al.     By using a GFP reporter protein expressed selectively in neural stem cells in a mouse model of glioblastoma, a small subset of GFP-positive glioma cells is shown to be responsible for re-growth of tumours after chemotherapy.             Defining the mode of tumour growth by clonal analysis ▶     Gregory Driessens, Benjamin Beck, Amélie Caauwe, Benjamin D. Simons & Cédric Blanpain     Using genetic lineage tracing, tumour cells are traced in vivo in an unperturbed solid tumour; in a carcinogen-induced papilloma mouse model, cells in these benign lesions are found to mirror the clonal hierarchy organization of normal tissue.             NRT/PTR transporters are essential for translocation of glucosinolate defence compounds to seeds ▶     Hussam Hassan Nour-Eldin, Tonni Grube Andersen, Meike Burow, Svend Roesen Madsen, Morten Egevang Jørgensen et al.     Two high-affinity proton-dependent transporters of glucosinolates have been identified in Arabidopsis and termed GTR1 and GTR2; these transporters are essential for transporting glucosinolates to seeds, offering a means to control the allocation of defence compounds in a tissue-specific manner, which may have agricultural biotechnology implications.             The protein kinase Pstol1 from traditional rice confers tolerance of phosphorus deficiency ▶     Rico Gamuyao, Joong Hyoun Chin, Juan Pariasca-Tanaka, Paolo Pesaresi, Sheryl Catausan et al.     A gene that is present in phosphate-deficiency-tolerant rice but absent from modern rice varieties is characterized and named phosphorus-starvation tolerance 1 (PSTOL1); overexpression of PSTOL1 in rice species that naturally lack this gene confers tolerance to low phosphorus conditions, a finding that may have implications for agricultural productivity in rice-growing countries.             The human CST complex is a terminator of telomerase activity ▶     Liuh-Yow Chen, Sophie Redon & Joachim Lingner     The human CST complex is shown to interact with the telomeric primer and the POT1–TPP1 complex to inhibit telomerase activity in late S phase, thereby keeping unrestrained telomere lengthening in check.             News & Views                   Cancer: Resolving the stem-cell debate ▶     Richard J. Gilbertson & Trevor A. Graham             Tissue engineering: Blood vessels on a chip ▶     Claudio Franco & Holger Gerhardt             Plant nutrition: Rooting for more phosphorus ▶     Leon V. Kochian             Genetics: The rate of human mutation ▶     Alexey Kondrashov             Brief Communications Arising                   Is BID required for NOD signalling? ▶     Ueli Nachbur, James E. Vince, Lorraine A. O’Reilly, Andreas Strasser & John Silke             Yeretssian et al. reply ▶     Garabet Yeretssian, Ricardo G. Correa, Karine Doiron, Patrick Fitzgerald, Christopher P. Dillon et al.             Erratum                   Erratum: Integrated genomic analyses of ovarian carcinoma ▶     The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network             Research Highlights                   Animal health: The spread of herpes in zoos | Microbiology: Cigarette smoke boosts biofilms | Reproductive biology: Molecule blocks sperm production | Microbiology: Inflamed guts boost bad bacteria | Neurobiology: Flushing proteins from the brain         NEWS & COMMENT           Social dimensions to biodiversity | Fathers bequeath more mutations as they age | Companies set to fight food-label plan | Tissue engineering: The brainmaker | Conservation policy: Listen to the voices of experience | Anatomy: Flayed, pickled, plastinated | Organ donation: Stricter management of organ transplants Alois Gratwohl           CAREERS           Turning point: Sohini Ramachandran             More Biological Sciences ▶                         For the 5th year running, Nature will be sponsoring the 'Scientific Merit' and 'Audience' awards at the Imagine Science Film Festival (ISFF). For information, or to submit your film and compete for the $2,500 Nature Scientific Merit Award and the $1,000 Nature Audience Award. www.imaginesciencefilms.org/festival/submit-your-film               Chemical Sciences ▲top             RESEARCH           Latest Online                   Set2 methylation of histone H3 lysine 36 suppresses histone exchange on transcribed genes ▶     Swaminathan Venkatesh, Michaela Smolle, Hua Li, Madelaine M. Gogol, Malika Saint et al.     In yeast, histone H3 lysine 36 methylation can suppress the incorporation of acetylated histones by inhibiting histone exchange in transcribed genes, thus preventing spurious cryptic transcripts from initiating within open reading frames.             Articles and Letters                   Room-temperature ferroelectricity in supramolecular networks of charge-transfer complexes ▶     Alok S. Tayi, Alexander K. Shveyd, Andrew C.-H. Sue, Jodi M. Szarko, Brian S. Rolczynski et al.     Organic ferroelectrics with switchable electrical polarization would be an attractive prospect for applications if their Curie temperature—below which these materials display ferroelectric behaviour—could be raised to room temperature or above; this goal has now been achieved with a family of organic materials characterized by a supramolecular structural motif.             Long-term decline of global atmospheric ethane concentrations and implications for methane ▶     Isobel J. Simpson, Mads P. Sulbaek Andersen, Simone Meinardi, Lori Bruhwiler, Nicola J. Blake et al.     The longest continuous record of global atmospheric ethane levels is presented, showing that global ethane emission rates decreased by 21 per cent from 1984 to 2010, probably owing to decreased venting and flaring of natural gas in oil fields; decreased venting and flaring also account for at least 30 to 70 per cent of the decrease in methane emissions over the same period.             The human CST complex is a terminator of telomerase activity ▶     Liuh-Yow Chen, Sophie Redon & Joachim Lingner     The human CST complex is shown to interact with the telomeric primer and the POT1–TPP1 complex to inhibit telomerase activity in late S phase, thereby keeping unrestrained telomere lengthening in check.             Brief Communications Arising                   Is BID required for NOD signalling? ▶     Ueli Nachbur, James E. Vince, Lorraine A. O’Reilly, Andreas Strasser & John Silke             Yeretssian et al. reply ▶     Garabet Yeretssian, Ricardo G. Correa, Karine Doiron, Patrick Fitzgerald, Christopher P. Dillon et al.             More Chemical Sciences ▶               Physical Sciences ▲top             RESEARCH           Latest Online                   Climate change: Brief but warm Antarctic summer ▶     Eric J. Steig             Astronomy: Collision course ▶     R. Brent Tully             Recent Antarctic Peninsula warming relative to Holocene climate and ice-shelf history ▶     Robert Mulvaney, Nerilie J. Abram, Richard C. A. Hindmarsh, Carol Arrowsmith, Louise Fleet et al.     An ice-core record from the northeastern Antarctic Peninsula shows that the present warming period in the region is unusual in the context of natural climate variability over the past two thousand years, and that continued warming could cause ice-shelf instability farther south along the peninsula.             Articles and Letters                   Non-classical light generated by quantum-noise-driven cavity optomechanics ▶     Daniel W. C. Brooks, Thierry Botter, Sydney Schreppler, Thomas P. Purdy, Nathan Brahms et al.     The effect of quantum radiation-pressure fluctuations on the collective motion of ultracold atoms is observed in a cavity-optomechanical system, and the back-action of this motion on the cavity light field is shown to produce sub-shot-noise optical squeezing.             Exciton condensation and perfect Coulomb drag ▶     D. Nandi, A. D. K. Finck, J. P. Eisenstein, L. N. Pfeiffer & K. W. West     An electronic current flowing in one conductor can induce a drag current in another spatially separated conductor by means of Coulomb interactions; when these interactions are sufficiently strong the currents become equal and the drag therefore ‘perfect’, as shown here for a bilayer two-dimensional electron system.             Room-temperature ferroelectricity in supramolecular networks of charge-transfer complexes ▶     Alok S. Tayi, Alexander K. Shveyd, Andrew C.-H. Sue, Jodi M. Szarko, Brian S. Rolczynski et al.     Organic ferroelectrics with switchable electrical polarization would be an attractive prospect for applications if their Curie temperature—below which these materials display ferroelectric behaviour—could be raised to room temperature or above; this goal has now been achieved with a family of organic materials characterized by a supramolecular structural motif.             Long-term decline of global atmospheric ethane concentrations and implications for methane ▶     Isobel J. Simpson, Mads P. Sulbaek Andersen, Simone Meinardi, Lori Bruhwiler, Nicola J. Blake et al.     The longest continuous record of global atmospheric ethane levels is presented, showing that global ethane emission rates decreased by 21 per cent from 1984 to 2010, probably owing to decreased venting and flaring of natural gas in oil fields; decreased venting and flaring also account for at least 30 to 70 per cent of the decrease in methane emissions over the same period.             Contrasting patterns of early twenty-first-century glacier mass change in the Himalayas ▶     Andreas Kääb, Etienne Berthier, Christopher Nuth, Julie Gardelle & Yves Arnaud     Data for the Hindu Kush–Karakoram–Himalaya region from satellite laser altimetry and a global elevation model shows that glacier thinning varied by an order of magnitude across the region, with surface debris not seeming to provide effective insulation, and that the melting ice added several per cent to the annual discharge of the mountain rivers.             News & Views                   Quantum physics: Electrons in perfect drag ▶     Steven M. Girvin             Tissue engineering: Blood vessels on a chip ▶     Claudio Franco & Holger Gerhardt             Climate science: Himalayan glaciers in the balance ▶     J. Graham Cogley             Climate change: Brief but warm Antarctic summer ▶     Eric J. Steig             Astronomy: Collision course ▶     R. Brent Tully             Corrigendum                   Corrigendum: Past extreme warming events linked to massive carbon release from thawing permafrost ▶     Robert M. DeConto, Simone Galeotti, Mark Pagani, David Tracy, Kevin Schaefer et al.             Research Highlights                   Astronomy: Dark matter hugs the Sun | Information technology: Textbook encoded in DNA | Climate Science: Melting triggers more melting | Materials: Graphene, heal thyself         NEWS & COMMENT           Social dimensions to biodiversity | The name game | US telescopes face up to agency cuts | Computational social science: Making the Links | Research collaboration: When international partnerships go wrong | Computer science: Algorithmic rapture | Sally Ride (1951–2012)             More Physical Sciences ▶               Earth & Environmental Sciences ▲top             RESEARCH           Latest Online                   Climate change: Brief but warm Antarctic summer ▶     Eric J. Steig             Recent Antarctic Peninsula warming relative to Holocene climate and ice-shelf history ▶     Robert Mulvaney, Nerilie J. Abram, Richard C. A. Hindmarsh, Carol Arrowsmith, Louise Fleet et al.     An ice-core record from the northeastern Antarctic Peninsula shows that the present warming period in the region is unusual in the context of natural climate variability over the past two thousand years, and that continued warming could cause ice-shelf instability farther south along the peninsula.             Articles and Letters                   Long-term decline of global atmospheric ethane concentrations and implications for methane ▶     Isobel J. Simpson, Mads P. Sulbaek Andersen, Simone Meinardi, Lori Bruhwiler, Nicola J. Blake et al.     The longest continuous record of global atmospheric ethane levels is presented, showing that global ethane emission rates decreased by 21 per cent from 1984 to 2010, probably owing to decreased venting and flaring of natural gas in oil fields; decreased venting and flaring also account for at least 30 to 70 per cent of the decrease in methane emissions over the same period.             Contrasting patterns of early twenty-first-century glacier mass change in the Himalayas ▶     Andreas Kääb, Etienne Berthier, Christopher Nuth, Julie Gardelle & Yves Arnaud     Data for the Hindu Kush–Karakoram–Himalaya region from satellite laser altimetry and a global elevation model shows that glacier thinning varied by an order of magnitude across the region, with surface debris not seeming to provide effective insulation, and that the melting ice added several per cent to the annual discharge of the mountain rivers.             The protein kinase Pstol1 from traditional rice confers tolerance of phosphorus deficiency ▶     Rico Gamuyao, Joong Hyoun Chin, Juan Pariasca-Tanaka, Paolo Pesaresi, Sheryl Catausan et al.     A gene that is present in phosphate-deficiency-tolerant rice but absent from modern rice varieties is characterized and named phosphorus-starvation tolerance 1 (PSTOL1); overexpression of PSTOL1 in rice species that naturally lack this gene confers tolerance to low phosphorus conditions, a finding that may have implications for agricultural productivity in rice-growing countries.             News & Views                   Climate science: Himalayan glaciers in the balance ▶     J. Graham Cogley             Climate change: Brief but warm Antarctic summer ▶     Eric J. Steig             Corrigendum                   Corrigendum: Past extreme warming events linked to massive carbon release from thawing permafrost ▶     Robert M. DeConto, Simone Galeotti, Mark Pagani, David Tracy, Kevin Schaefer et al.             Research Highlights                   Climate Science: Melting triggers more melting         NEWS & COMMENT           Social dimensions to biodiversity | The name game | Test lakes face closure | Space missions trigger map wars | Research collaboration: When international partnerships go wrong | Sally Ride (1951–2012)             More Earth & Environmental Sciences ▶                         HudsonAlpha - Natureconference on Immunogenomics October 1-2, 2012, The Jackson Center, Huntsville, AL, USA The conference will bring together four areas to shape this emerging field: scientists in genomics and genetics, immunology, bioinformatics and methodology, and clinical research. 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