Tobacco marketing: shackling the pied piper

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

The German dramatist Carl Zuckmayer once claimed for the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin a preeminent position among legends that have been influential in both folklore and literature.1 Even those who question Zuckmayer's view might find good grounds for reviewing the legend's history in folkloric and literary tradition. In 1984 the town of Hameln (Hamelin) in Germany celebrated the seven hu...

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

The German dramatist Carl Zuckmayer once claimed for the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin a preeminent position among legends that have been influential in both folklore and literature.1 Even those who question Zuckmayer's view might find good grounds for reviewing the legend's history in folkloric and literary tradition. In 1984 the town of Hameln (Hamelin) in Germany celebrated the seven hu...

Abortion and the Pied Piper of compromise.

The Pied Piper: A Parasitic Beetle’s Melodies Modulate Ant Behaviours

Ants use various communication channels to regulate their social organisation. The main channel that drives almost all the ants' activities and behaviours is the chemical one, but it is long acknowledged that the acoustic channel also plays an important role. However, very little is known regarding exploitation of the acoustical channel by myrmecophile parasites to infiltrate the ant society. A...

Olfactory Axon Pathfinding Who Is the Pied Piper?

Mammalian olfactory sensory neurons that express a particular odorant receptor (OR) project axons to the same few glomeruli in the olfactory bulb. In this issue of Neuron, Vassalli et al. use OR minigenes that coexpress histochemical markers and show that the determinants in the sensory neurons required to generate the stereotyped olfactory bulb map are the same as those needed for appropriate ...