[ot] [!nt] \n2+0\ NATO.0+55 kontra NATO - INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS needs _your money

[integer at www.god-emil.dk]

Due to nr.1  50 percent of all NATO.0+55 proceeds will be donated 
by Netochka Nezvanova to the Institute of Cytology + Genetics in Novosibirsk 
- until the $10000 yearly operation cost is reached.


to officials at INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS
- may contact Netochka Nezvanova at: nezvanova at eusocial.com
to arrange for funds transfer in the interim.

[yes Netochka Nezvanova is my real name - and this is a fairy tale
 _more delicious than reality da]


NN






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[MOSCOW] A unique project in Siberia that has helped researchers understand 
how animals become domesticated could soon expire from lack of funds.

Researchers at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk have compressed into
decades a process that might otherwise require thousands of years. Through intense selective
breeding, they have turned the silver fox (Vulpes vulpes) into an amiable, tail-wagging house
pet.

The work, started in 1959 by the late geneticist Dmitry Belyaev, has demonstrated the close links
between behavioural and developmental genetics.

The silver fox ‹ known as the red fox in the United States ‹ is closely related to the dog, but
had never been domesticated. The 45,000 foxes so far involved in the Siberian project were
chosen by researchers for their propensity to being tamed.

The selection process resulted in the emergence of traits in physiology, morphology and
behaviour that are most noticeable in the changes in coat colour and the presence of floppy ears
and curled tails.

But the institute lacks the $10,000 a year it needs to keep the project going. "This is the only 
kind of experiment of its kind in the world," says Ludmila Trut, head of the research group at 
the institute. "It would be a tragedy if it were to wither."

The research "is really important because evolutionary change in behaviour is very hard 
to study," says Deborah Goodwin, deputy director of the Anthrozoology Institute at the 
University of Southampton in Britain.

The population of breeding foxes has been reduced from 700 to 100 since 1996 and the staff, 
too, is declining. The project is now overseen by seven researchers of retirement age.

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3. reality [hello Janos Sugar, Andreas Broeckmann et al]


The California Institute of Technology needs to address imbalances and frustrations. 

With a growing number of women students, and situated in the state that sees itself as America's 
most progressive, the California Institute of Technology would seem to be an ideal arena to nurture 
a research community free of gender warfare. But a study reported in this issue (see page 844)
shows deep dissatisfaction among the one in ten of Caltech's faculty who are women. 
The women feel ‹ and the facts suggest ‹ that they have had an anomalously high chance of being spurned 
when leadership positions were filled; they feel discriminated against by administrators who dole out
endowed chairs, which underwrite salaries; and they have now learned that they are paid less for equal work.

The intense atmosphere has led to backbiting. A senior woman faculty's reticence to fight for equal 
salaries was called "traitorous" by another woman professor. Women faculty who push for their rights 
were called "young hotheads" by senior faculty. And there is lingering bitterness among the
senior and junior faculty women over battle tactics in the gender war. All this in a state where 
women have increasingly assumed leadership positions in the corporate and political world.

This past spring, Caltech elected the first woman 'chair' of the faculty. Last winter, 
the biology division saw its first woman faculty member receive
an endowed chair, after some 70% of male biology faculty already had endowments. 
But the woman biologist's endowment came only after strong lobbying.










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