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April 21, 2009; 106 (16)

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This Week in PNAS

This Week in PNAS:
In This Issue
PNAS 2009 106:6425-6426; doi:10.1073/iti1609106

Letters (Online Only)

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Letter:
- Michael E. Smith
Modern behavioral experiments are not economic history
PNAS 2009 106:E39; published online before print April 2, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0901413106
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Letter:
- Sudipta Basu,
- John Dickhaut,
- Gary Hecht,
- Kristy Towry,
- and Gregory Waymire
Reply to Michael Smith: Does “economic history” include experiments on how institutions alter exchange history in a laboratory environment?
PNAS 2009 106:E40; published online before print April 2, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0902314106
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Letter:
- C. M. Beale,
- J. J. Lennon,
- and A. Gimona
European bird distributions still show few climate associations
PNAS 2009 106:E41-E43; published online before print April 15, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0902229106
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Letter:
- Richard J. Aspinall,
- Jennifer A. Miller,
- and Janet Franklin
Calculations on the back of a climate envelope: Addressing the geography of species distributions
PNAS 2009 106:E44; published online before print April 15, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0809891106
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Letter:
- Miguel B. Araújo,
- Wilfried Thuiller,
- and Nigel G. Yoccoz
Reopening the climate envelope reveals macroscale associations with climate in European birds
PNAS 2009 106:E45-E46; published online before print April 15, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0813294106
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Letter:
- A. Townsend Peterson,
- Narayani Barve,
- Luis Mauricio Bini,
- José Alexandre Diniz-Filho,
- Alberto Jiménez-Valverde,
- Andrés Lira-Noriega,
- Jorge Lobo,
- Sean Maher,
- Paulo de Marco, Jr.,
- Enrique Martínez-Meyer,
- Yoshinori Nakazawa,
- and Jorge Soberón
The climate envelope may not be empty
PNAS 2009 106:E47; published online before print April 15, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0809722106

Commentaries

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Commentary:
- T. Douglas Price
Ancient farming in eastern North America
PNAS 2009 106:6427-6428; published online before print April 20, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0902617106
- See companion article on page 6561 in issue 16 of volume 106
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Commentary:
- Jean-Jacques Hublin
The prehistory of compassion
PNAS 2009 106:6429-6430; published online before print April 20, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0902614106
- See companion article on page 6573 in issue 16 of volume 106
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Commentary:
- Chae-ryun Yi
- and Marcia B. Goldberg
Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli raises the I-BAR
PNAS 2009 106:6431-6432; published online before print April 20, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0902773106
- See companion article on page 6754 in issue 16 of volume 106

Complex Systems: From Chemistry to Systems Biology Special Feature (free online)

Introductory Perspective

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Introductory Perspective:
- John Ross
- and Adam P. Arkin
Complex Systems: From Chemistry to Systems Biology Special Feature: Complex Systems: From chemistry to systems biology
PNAS 2009 106:6433-6434; published online before print April 20, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0903406106

Research Articles

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Research Articles - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Michael A. Savageau,
- Pedro M. B. M. Coelho,
- Rick A. Fasani,
- Dean A. Tolla,
- and Armindo Salvador
Complex Systems: From Chemistry to Systems Biology Special Feature: Phenotypes and tolerances in the design space of biochemical systems
PNAS 2009 106:6435-6440; published online before print March 11, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0809869106
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Research Articles - Biological Sciences - Genetics:
- Oren Litvin,
- Helen C. Causton,
- Bo-Juen Chen,
- and Dana Pe'er
Complex Systems: From Chemistry to Systems Biology Special Feature: Modularity and interactions in the genetics of gene expression
PNAS 2009 106:6441-6446; published online before print February 17, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0810208106
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Research Articles - Biological Sciences - Genetics:
- Benedict Anchang,
- Mohammad J. Sadeh,
- Juby Jacob,
- Achim Tresch,
- Marcel O. Vlad,
- Peter J. Oefner,
- and Rainer Spang
Special Feature: Complex Systems: From Chemistry to Systems Biology Special Feature: Modeling the temporal interplay of molecular signaling and gene expression by using dynamic nested effects models
PNAS 2009 106:6447-6452; published online before print March 27, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0809822106
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Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Computer Sciences - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Jérôme Feret,
- Vincent Danos,
- Jean Krivine,
- Russ Harmer,
- and Walter Fontana
Complex Systems: From Chemistry to Systems Biology Special Feature: Internal coarse-graining of molecular systems
PNAS 2009 106:6453-6458; published online before print April 3, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0809908106
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Research Articles - Biological Sciences - Microbiology:
- Ilka B. Bischofs,
- Joshua A. Hug,
- Aiwen W. Liu,
- Denise M. Wolf,
- and Adam P. Arkin
Complex Systems: From Chemistry to Systems Biology Special Feature: Complexity in bacterial cell–cell communication: Quorum signal integration and subpopulation signaling in the Bacillus subtilis phosphorelay
PNAS 2009 106:6459-6464; published online before print April 20, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0810878106
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Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
- Marcel O. Vlad,
- Alexandru D. Corlan,
- Federico Morán,
- Rainer Spang,
- Peter Oefner,
- and John Ross
Complex Systems: From Chemistry to Systems Biology Special Feature: Kinetic laws, phase–phase expansions, renormalization group, and INR calibration
PNAS 2009 106:6465-6470; published online before print April 6, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0809855106
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Research Articles - Biological Sciences - Biophysics and Computational Biology:
- Sandip Kar,
- William T. Baumann,
- Mark R. Paul,
- and John J. Tyson
Complex Systems: From Chemistry to Systems Biology Special Feature: Exploring the roles of noise in the eukaryotic cell cycle
PNAS 2009 106:6471-6476; published online before print February 25, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0810034106
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Research Articles - Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
- Joel F. Moxley,
- Michael C. Jewett,
- Maciek R. Antoniewicz,
- Silas G. Villas-Boas,
- Hal Alper,
- Robert T. Wheeler,
- Lily Tong,
- Alan G. Hinnebusch,
- Trey Ideker,
- Jens Nielsen,
- and Gregory Stephanopoulos
From the Cover: Complex Systems: From Chemistry to Systems Biology Special Feature: Linking high-resolution metabolic flux phenotypes and transcriptional regulation in yeast modulated by the global regulator Gcn4p
PNAS 2009 106:6477-6482; published online before print April 3, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0811091106

Social Sciences

Anthropology

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Social Sciences - Anthropology - Biological Sciences - Anthropology:
- Bruce D. Smith
- and Richard A. Yarnell
From the Cover: Initial formation of an indigenous crop complex in eastern North America at 3800 B.P
PNAS 2009 106:6561-6566; published online before print April 6, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0901846106
OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
- See commentary article on page 6427 in issue 16 of volume 106

Economic Sciences

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Social Sciences - Economic Sciences:
- Niklas Zethraeus,
- Ljiljana Kocoska-Maras,
- Tore Ellingsen,
- Bo von Schoultz,
- Angelica Lindén Hirschberg,
- and Magnus Johannesson
A randomized trial of the effect of estrogen and testosterone on economic behavior
PNAS 2009 106:6535-6538; published online before print April 6, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0812757106
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Psychology

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Social Sciences - Psychology - Biological Sciences - Neuroscience:
- Roger Ratcliff,
- Marios G. Philiastides,
- and Paul Sajda
Quality of evidence for perceptual decision making is indexed by trial-to-trial variability of the EEG
PNAS 2009 106:6539-6544; published online before print April 2, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0812589106
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Social Sciences - Psychology:
- Gary W. Evans
- and Michelle A. Schamberg
Childhood poverty, chronic stress, and adult working memory
PNAS 2009 106:6545-6549; published online before print March 30, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0811910106
OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
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Social Sciences - Psychology:
- Laura Bix,
- Nora M. Bello,
- Rafael Auras,
- Jon Ranger,
- and Maria K. Lapinski
Examining the conspicuousness and prominence of two required warnings on OTC pain relievers
PNAS 2009 106:6550-6555; published online before print March 30, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0810665106
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Social Sciences - Psychology:
- Ágnes Melinda Kovács
- and Jacques Mehler
Cognitive gains in 7-month-old bilingual infants
PNAS 2009 106:6556-6560; published online before print April 13, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0811323106

Retraction

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Retraction:
Retraction for Arnold, Profile of Philip Cohen
PNAS 2009 106:6878; published online before print April 8, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0903490106

Corrections

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Correction:
Correction for Yan et al., Origin, antiviral function and evidence for positive selection of the gammaretrovirus restriction gene Fv1 in the genus Mus
PNAS 2009 106:6878; published online before print April 7, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0901885106
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Correction:
Correction for Garman et al., A genomic approach to colon cancer risk stratification yields biologic insights into therapeutic opportunities
PNAS 2009 106:6878; published online before print April 7, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0902004106
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Correction:
Correction for Wilson et al., The paradoxical effects of using antiretroviral-based microbicides to control HIV epidemics
PNAS 2009 106:6879; published online before print April 7, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0900163106

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FROM THE COVER

This Week in PNAS

In This Issue

Letters (Online Only)

Modern behavioral experiments are not economic history

Reply to Michael Smith: Does “economic history” include experiments on how institutions alter exchange history in a laboratory environment?

European bird distributions still show few climate associations

Calculations on the back of a climate envelope: Addressing the geography of species distributions

Reopening the climate envelope reveals macroscale associations with climate in European birds

The climate envelope may not be empty

Commentaries

Ancient farming in eastern North America

The prehistory of compassion

Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli raises the I-BAR

Complex Systems: From Chemistry to Systems Biology Special Feature (free online)

Introductory Perspective

Complex Systems: From Chemistry to Systems Biology Special Feature: Complex Systems: From chemistry to systems biology

Research Articles

Complex Systems: From Chemistry to Systems Biology Special Feature: Phenotypes and tolerances in the design space of biochemical systems

Complex Systems: From Chemistry to Systems Biology Special Feature: Modularity and interactions in the genetics of gene expression

Special Feature: Complex Systems: From Chemistry to Systems Biology Special Feature: Modeling the temporal interplay of molecular signaling and gene expression by using dynamic nested effects models

Complex Systems: From Chemistry to Systems Biology Special Feature: Internal coarse-graining of molecular systems

Complex Systems: From Chemistry to Systems Biology Special Feature: Complexity in bacterial cell–cell communication: Quorum signal integration and subpopulation signaling in the Bacillus subtilis phosphorelay

Complex Systems: From Chemistry to Systems Biology Special Feature: Kinetic laws, phase–phase expansions, renormalization group, and INR calibration

Complex Systems: From Chemistry to Systems Biology Special Feature: Exploring the roles of noise in the eukaryotic cell cycle

From the Cover: Complex Systems: From Chemistry to Systems Biology Special Feature: Linking high-resolution metabolic flux phenotypes and transcriptional regulation in yeast modulated by the global regulator Gcn4p

Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

From the Cover: The emergence of lineage-specific chromosomal topologies from coordinate gene regulation

Applied Physical Sciences

Extracting the multiscale backbone of complex weighted networks

Quantitative magnetic resonance and optical imaging biomarkers of melanoma metastatic potential

Chemistry

Complex Systems: From Chemistry to Systems Biology Special Feature: Kinetic laws, phase–phase expansions, renormalization group, and INR calibration

Using photons to manipulate enzyme inhibition by an azobenzene-modified nucleic acid probe

Pendular proteins in gases and new avenues for characterization of macromolecules by ion mobility spectrometry

Identification of a fluorescent general anesthetic, 1-aminoanthracene

Synthetic and structural studies on syringolin A and B reveal critical determinants of selectivity and potency of proteasome inhibition

Geometric and electronic structure differences between the type 3 copper sites of the multicopper oxidases and hemocyanin/tyrosinase

Two-dimensional IR spectroscopy and isotope labeling defines the pathway of amyloid formation with residue-specific resolution

Dynamical networks in tRNA:protein complexes

Computer Sciences

Complex Systems: From Chemistry to Systems Biology Special Feature: Internal coarse-graining of molecular systems

Environmental Sciences

The radiocarbon signature of microorganisms in the mesopelagic ocean

Geology

Large spinose microfossils in Ediacaran rocks as resting stages of early animals

Physics

Anomalous optical and electronic properties of dense sodium

A stochastic spectral analysis of transcriptional regulatory cascades

Competition between recombination and epistasis can cause a transition from allele to genotype selection

Statistics

Species abundance distribution results from a spatial analogy of central limit theorem

Social Sciences

Anthropology

From the Cover: Initial formation of an indigenous crop complex in eastern North America at 3800 B.P

Economic Sciences

A randomized trial of the effect of estrogen and testosterone on economic behavior

Psychology

Quality of evidence for perceptual decision making is indexed by trial-to-trial variability of the EEG

Childhood poverty, chronic stress, and adult working memory

Examining the conspicuousness and prominence of two required warnings on OTC pain relievers

Cognitive gains in 7-month-old bilingual infants

Biological Sciences

Anthropology

From the Cover: Initial formation of an indigenous crop complex in eastern North America at 3800 B.P

Functional morphology of the ankle and the likelihood of climbing in early hominins

From the Cover: Craniosynostosis in the Middle Pleistocene human Cranium 14 from the Sima de los Huesos, Atapuerca, Spain

Applied Biological Sciences

From the Cover: Complex Systems: From Chemistry to Systems Biology Special Feature: Linking high-resolution metabolic flux phenotypes and transcriptional regulation in yeast modulated by the global regulator Gcn4p

Plastid production of protein antibiotics against pneumonia via a new strategy for high-level expression of antimicrobial proteins

Biochemistry

Complex Systems: From Chemistry to Systems Biology Special Feature: Phenotypes and tolerances in the design space of biochemical systems

Using photons to manipulate enzyme inhibition by an azobenzene-modified nucleic acid probe

Geometric and electronic structure differences between the type 3 copper sites of the multicopper oxidases and hemocyanin/tyrosinase

Cooperative regulation of p53 by modulation of ternary complex formation with CBP/p300 and HDM2

The bacteriophage T4 AsiA protein contacts the β-flap domain of RNA polymerase

Structural and mechanistic insights into the association of PKCα-C2 domain to PtdIns(4,5)P2

Biophysics and Computational Biology

Structural and mechanistic insights into the association of PKCα-C2 domain to PtdIns(4,5)P₂

Forced periodic expression of G₁ cyclins phase-locks the budding yeast cell cycle

Insulin receptor tyrosine kinase substrate links the E. coli O157:H7 actin assembly effectors Tir and EspF_U during pedestal formation

H2-K^b and H2-D^b regulate cerebellar long-term depression and limit motor learning

Structure-based discovery of β₂-adrenergic receptor ligands