Nuclear envelope

Do you have a favorite scientific journal? Although I have several favorites which illuminate my life, I am particularly fond of Cat News, a quarterly newsletter edited by noted conservationist Peter Jackson of IUCN. Cat News publishes short essays about new developments relating to non-domestic wild cat species, from lynxes to tigers to lions and snow leopards. Felid observations, conservation anecdotes, sightings in remote corners of the world, even wildlife trade prosecutions are described. Without the encumbrance of peer review, the articles describe phenomena, happenings, occasional science and stories around a group of species about which, a generation back, I became scientifically curious. Without these intrepid (often amateur) naturalists’ reports and muses, the genetic hypothesis that we inspect would not exist.