1 This work has been supported in part by NSF-IIS-0083209, ARO/MURI-DAAH04-96-1-0007, NSF-CDS-97-03220, DARPA-ITO-DABT63-99-1-0017, and Advanced Network and Services. Special thanks to members of MOOSE Project: V. J. Kumar, Kostas Daniilidis, Elli Angelopoulou, Oleg Naroditsky, and Geoffrey Egnal for their invaluable comments and support. Also grateful thanks to members of GRASP Lab for their w...

1Division of Cell Biology and Neurophysiology, Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0017, Japan, 2Department of Physiology, Gunma University School of Medicine, Maebashi, Gunma 371-8511, Japan, 3Department of Applied Biology, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan, 4Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and...

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1Department of Subsurface Geobiological Analysis and Research (D-SUGAR), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), 2–15 Natsushima-cho, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 237–0061, Japan; 2Department of Environmental Systems Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, 1603–1 Kamitomioka, Nagaoka, Niigata 940–2188, Japan; 3Department of Construction Systems Engineering, Anan National Co...

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1 Biological/Pharmacological Research Laboratories, Central Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Japan Tobacco Inc., Osaka 569-1125, Japan 2 Section on Genetics and Epidemiology, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA 3Division of Molecular and Metabolic Medicine, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe 650-0017, ...