Corrections and clarifications

In the editorial "Punctuated equilibrium in scientific publishing" by Ellis Rubinstein (9 June, p. 1415), the first name of Gerard Piel was spelled incorrectly, and his year of retirement, and that of Dennis Flanagan, should have been given as 1984, not 1986.     

Corrections and clarifications

In the ScienceScope item "NIH to review gene therapy program" (5 May, p. 627). Arno Motulsky is incorrectly identified as "an ethicist." Dr. Motulsky is a medical geneticist.     

Corrections and clarifications

In table 1 (p. 1124) of the article "Prehistoric extinction of Pacific island birds: Biodiversity meets zooarchaeology," by David W. Steadman (24 Feb., p. 1123), the column headings for modern and fossil record were reversed; under each island name, the letters "F M" should have appeared.     

Corrections and clarifications

The image in the Table of Contents for the issue of 23 October (p. 523) illustrating the report by G. D. Schellenberg et al. (p. 668) and the Research News article by Jean Marx (p. 550) about early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease being linked to chromosome 14 was incorrect. The correct figure appears on page 668 of the same issue.     

Corrections and clarifications

In Joseph Palca's article "The case of the Florida dentist" (News & Comment, 24 Jan., p. 392), it should have been made clear that when Barbara Mishkin was indirectly quoted as saying that data gathered by government scientists is fair game for Freedom of Information Act requests, she was speaking of data generated by scientists in the National Institutes of Science intramural research program, unless those data fall within one of the statutory exemptions.     

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References related to citation 2 include J. A. Sepulchre and A. Babloyantz, Phys. Rev. E 48, 187 (1993); A. Babloyantz and J. A. Sepulchre, Physica D 49, 52 (1991); and J. A. Sepulchre and A. Babloyantz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1314 (1991).     

Corrections and clarifications

In Claire O'Brien's News & Comment article "Priority initiatives squeeze science"(10 Feb., p. 782), David Porteous was incorrectly described as head of the Medical Research Council's (MRC's) Human Genetics Unit. He is head of the Molecular Genetics Section of the MRC's Human Genetics Unit.     

Corrections and clarifications

In the Random Samples item "Charting biodiversity to guide conservation" (5 Feb., p. 758), Janis Alcom should have been described as the "director of CNA ['conservation needs assessment'] at the Biodiversity Support Program, a consortium of the World Wildlife Fund, the World Resources Institute, and the Nature Conservancy."     

Corrections and clarifications

In the special section "Minorities in science: The pipeline problem" (13 Nov., p. 1175), the graph on page 1199 showing the field distribution of employed scientists and engineers by ethnicity should have been labeled "Percentage" along the x axis. Also, the designation "Engineers" should have read, "Engineers, total." Labeled correctly, the graph would indicate, for example, that among all employed white scientists and engineers in 1988, about 50% were scientists and 50% were engineers. Of employed black scientists and engineers, about 70% were scientists and only about 30% were engineers. Among Hispanics, the breakdown was about 45% scientists and 55% engineers.     

Corrections and clarifications

In the Meeting Brief "EUVE [Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer] takes the long view" by Faye Flam (Research News, 25 June, p. 1879), the EUVE principal investigator was incorrectly identified. He is Stuart Bowyer of the University of California, Berkeley.     

Corrections and clarifications

Table 2 (p. 1127) of the report "Rules for alpha-helix termination by glycine" by R. Aurora et al. (20 May, p. 1126) was incorrectly printed. The corrected table appears below. In the same report, the second sentence of reference 36 should not have appeared. [See table in the PDF file].     

Corrections and clarifications

D. G. Rainnie et al., in their report "Adenosine inhibition of mesopontine cholinergic neurons: Implications for EEG arousal" (4 Feb., p. 689), suggested that adenosine may mediate sleep-debt related potentiation of EEG slow-wave activity in non-REM sleep. This is similar to a hypothesis proposed by J. H. Benington et al. [Sleep Res. 22, 4 (1993)]. Rainnie et al. suggested that adenosine exerts this effect by means of inhibition of mesopontine cholinergic neurons rather than by direct inhibition of neurons in the cerebral cortex.     

Corrections and clarifications

Figure 4 of the report "Selective and ATP-dependent translocation of peptides by the MHC-encoded peptide transporter" by J. J. Neefjes, F. Momburg, and G. J. Hammerling (6 Aug., p. 769) stated incorrectly that a peptide with T as the COOH-terminal residue was not efficiently translocated. Resynthesis revealed that the peptide RYWANATRST is transported by rat TAP. This does not change the general conclusion that the transporters are selective, because several other peptides are not well translocated [F. Momburg et al., Nature 367, 648 (1994)].     

Corrections and clarifications

In reference 12 (p. 996) of the Perspective "Neuroscience on the net" by P. T. Fox and J. L. Lancaster (11 Nov., p. 994), errors appeared in three of the Uniform Resource Locators (URL's) listed. For BrainMap, the URL should have read, "http://biad 38.uthscsa.edu/brainmap/brainmap94.html"; for ICBM/SPMap, "http://www.loni.ucla.edu"; and for Genesis, "http://www.bbb.caltech.edu/GENESIS."     

Corrections and clarifications

The price listed for Franco Pavese and Gianfranco Molinar's Modern Gas-Based Temperature and Pressure Measurements (Plenum Press) in the Books Received column of 6 November (p. 1015) was incorrect. The price of the book is $110.     

Corrections and clarifications

The Books Received listing of 26 November (p. 1463) for Thomas F. Lee's Gene Future: The Promise and Perils of the New Biology (Plenum, New York, 1993) included a line of information that did not apply to that book. The price given for the book, $24.95, was correct.     

Corrections and clarifications

In the letter of 23 October by Charles A. Gardner (p. 530), Dr. Gardner's address was incorrectly given as the Subcommittee on Human Resources and Intergovernmental Relations of the House Committee on Government Operations. Dr. Gardner was a AAAS Congressional Science Fellow assigned to that subcommittee through August 1992, but the views expressed in his letter were his own and not those of the subcommittee.     

Corrections and clarifications

In the report "A nuclear-encoded form II RuBisCO in dinoflagellates" by D. Morse et al. (16 June, p. 1622), in the seventh line of the first full paragraph in the third column on page 1622, "glysine-cysteine" should have been "guanine-cytosine."     

Corrections and clarifications

In This Week in Science, 10 March, page 1401, under the title "Knowing when to go," the name of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans was misspelled.