Subject: The Scientist Daily: April 27, 2005

From: The Scientist <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:00:01 +0100 (BST)

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2005

A Peek at the Pore
Scientists begin to fill in the blanks for the nuclear pore complex

(Bennett Daviss)

How birds keep secrets in color
Songbird plumage reflects UV light, but is less obvious to avian predators (Nick Atkinson)

A primitive energy pathway in fungus
Energy-generating proton pump previously seen only in prokaryotes is identified in (Charles Q Choi)

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