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Letter: For the record

Published 15 October 2008

• The paper by Mile Gu and colleagues on emergent properties of Ising lattices is at (4 October, p 12).

• We said ambiguously that “a molecule released by bacteria called lipopolysaccharide seems to initiate tolerance” to bacteria (27 September, p 16). To clarify: lipopolysaccharides are a class of molecules.

• We seemed to say both that pterosaurs weighed up to a quarter of a tonne and that they were four times heavier than a 22-kilogram albatross (4 October, p 10). We meant to say that members of the extinct teratorn family of birds weighed up to 88 kilograms – which is more than the proposed 40 kilogram limit for flight.

Issue no. 2678 published 18 October 2008

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