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The 50 Most-Frequently Read Articles
in PNAS during March 2008 -- updated monthly

Most-read rankings are recalculated at the beginning of the month and are based on full-text and pdf views.

1.  Francesco Fornai, Patrizia Longone, Luisa Cafaro, Olga Kastsiuchenka, Michela Ferrucci, Maria Laura Manca, Gloria Lazzeri, Alida Spalloni, Natascia Bellio, Paola Lenzi, Nicola Modugno, Gabriele Siciliano, Ciro Isidoro, Luigi Murri, Stefano Ruggieri, Antonio Paparelli
Lithium delays progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Feb 12, 2008; 105: 2052-2057.
(In "Medical Sciences")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
2.  James Hansen, Makiko Sato, Reto Ruedy, Ken Lo, David W. Lea, Martin Medina-Elizade
Global temperature change
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Sep 26, 2006; 103: 14288-14293.
(In "Environmental Sciences-PS")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
3.  W. E. Lowry, L. Richter, R. Yachechko, A. D. Pyle, J. Tchieu, R. Sridharan, A. T. Clark, K. Plath
Generation of human induced pluripotent stem cells from dermal fibroblasts
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Feb 26, 2008; 105: 2883-2888.
(In "Cell Biology")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
4.  Antoine Lutz, Lawrence L. Greischar, Nancy B. Rawlings, Matthieu Ricard, Richard J. Davidson
Long-term meditators self-induce high-amplitude gamma synchrony during mental practice
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Nov 16, 2004; 101: 16369-16373.
(In "Neuroscience")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
5.  Jason Hill, Erik Nelson, David Tilman, Stephen Polasky, Douglas Tiffany
From the Cover: Environmental, economic, and energetic costs and benefits of biodiesel and ethanol biofuels
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Jul 25, 2006; 103: 11206-11210.
(In "Sustainability_Science-SS")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
6.  Mark C. Enright, D. Ashley Robinson, Gaynor Randle, Edward J. Feil, Hajo Grundmann, Brian G. Spratt
The evolutionary history of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA May 28, 2002; 99: 7687-7692.
(In "Microbiology")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
7.  Marius Gilbert, Xiangming Xiao, Dirk U. Pfeiffer, M. Epprecht, Stephen Boles, Christina Czarnecki, Prasit Chaitaweesub, Wantanee Kalpravidh, Phan Q. Minh, M. J. Otte, Vincent Martin, Jan Slingenbergh
Mapping H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza risk in Southeast Asia
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Mar 25, 2008; 105: 4769-4774.
(In "Ecology")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
8.  Amit Agrawal, Rajesh Deo, Geoffrey D. Wang, May D. Wang, Shuming Nie
Nanometer-scale mapping and single-molecule detection with color-coded nanoparticle probes
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Mar 04, 2008; 105: 3298-3303.
(In "Biophysics")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
9.  Yousin Suh, Gil Atzmon, Mi-Ook Cho, David Hwang, Bingrong Liu, Daniel J. Leahy, Nir Barzilai, Pinchas Cohen
Functionally significant insulin-like growth factor I receptor mutations in centenarians
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Mar 04, 2008; 105: 3438-3442.
(In "Genetics")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
10.  Deborah S. Rogers, Paul R. Ehrlich
From the Cover: Natural selection and cultural rates of change
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Mar 04, 2008; 105: 3416-3420.
(In "Evolution")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
11.  Damien A. Fair, Alexander L. Cohen, Nico U. F. Dosenbach, Jessica A. Church, Francis M. Miezin, Deanna M. Barch, Marcus E. Raichle, Steven E. Petersen, Bradley L. Schlaggar
The maturing architecture of the brain's default network
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Mar 11, 2008; 105: 4028-4032.
(In "Neuroscience")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
12.  J. E. Hirsch
An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Nov 15, 2005; 102: 16569-16572.
(In "Physics")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
13.  Michael B. Eisen, Paul T. Spellman, Patrick O. Brown, David Botstein
Cluster analysis and display of genome-wide expression patterns
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Dec 08, 1998; 95: 14863-14868.
(In "Genetics")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
14.  Igor Goychuk, Peter Hänggi
Ion channel gating: A first-passage time analysis of the Kramers type
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Mar 19, 2002; 99: 3552-3556.
(In "Biophysics")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
15.  Timothy M. Lenton, Hermann Held, Elmar Kriegler, Jim W. Hall, Wolfgang Lucht, Stefan Rahmstorf, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Inaugural Article: Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Feb 12, 2008; 105: 1786-1793.
(In "Sustainability Science-PS")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
16.  David Cesarini, Christopher T. Dawes, James H. Fowler, Magnus Johannesson, Paul Lichtenstein, Björn Wallace
Heritability of cooperative behavior in the trust game
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Mar 11, 2008; 105: 3721-3726.
(In "Anthropology-BS")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
17.  John F. Nash
Equilibrium Points in n-Person Games
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Jan 15, 1950; 36: 48-49.
(In "Journal_Article")   [PDF]
 
18.  Adrianna C. Jenkins, C. Neil Macrae, Jason P. Mitchell
From the Cover: Repetition suppression of ventromedial prefrontal activity during judgments of self and others
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Mar 18, 2008; 105: 4507-4512.
(In "Psychology-BS")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
19.  Andrew M. Bellinger, Steven Reiken, Miroslav Dura, Peter W. Murphy, Shi-Xian Deng, Donald W. Landry, David Nieman, Stephan E. Lehnart, Mahendranauth Samaru, Alain LaCampagne, Andrew R. Marks
Remodeling of ryanodine receptor complex causes "leaky" channels: A molecular mechanism for decreased exercise capacity
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Feb 12, 2008; 105: 2198-2202.
(In "Physiology")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
20.  Katherine M. Thibault, James H. Brown
Impact of an extreme climatic event on community assembly
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Mar 04, 2008; 105: 3410-3415.
(In "Ecology")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
21.  James Tsai, John T. Lee, Weiru Wang, Jiazhong Zhang, Hanna Cho, Shumeye Mamo, Ryan Bremer, Sam Gillette, Jun Kong, Nikolas K. Haass, Katrin Sproesser, Ling Li, Keiran S. M. Smalley, Daniel Fong, Yong-Liang Zhu, Adhirai Marimuthu, Hoa Nguyen, Billy Lam, Jennifer Liu, Ivana Cheung, Julie Rice, Yoshihisa Suzuki, Catherine Luu, Calvin Settachatgul, Rafe Shellooe, John Cantwell, Sung-Hou Kim, Joseph Schlessinger, Kam Y. J. Zhang, Brian L. West, Ben Powell, Gaston Habets, Chao Zhang, Prabha N. Ibrahim, Peter Hirth, Dean R. Artis, Meenhard Herlyn, Gideon Bollag
From the Cover: Discovery of a selective inhibitor of oncogenic B-Raf kinase with potent antimelanoma activity
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Feb 26, 2008; 105: 3041-3046.
(In "Medical Sciences")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
22.  Mathias Ehrich, Julia Turner, Peter Gibbs, Lara Lipton, Mara Giovanneti, Charles Cantor, Dirk van den Boom
Cytosine methylation profiling of cancer cell lines
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Mar 25, 2008; 105: 4844-4849.
(In "Medical Sciences")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
23.  Daehyun Baek, Phil Green
Sequence conservation, relative isoform frequencies, and nonsense-mediated decay in evolutionarily conserved alternative splicing
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Aug 25, 2005; doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506139102.
(In "Evolution")   [Abstract]     [PDF]
 
24.  Monica Uddin, Morris Goodman, Offer Erez, Roberto Romero, Guozhen Liu, Munirul Islam, Juan C. Opazo, Chet C. Sherwood, Lawrence I. Grossman, Derek E. Wildman
Distinct genomic signatures of adaptation in pre- and postnatal environments during human evolution
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Mar 04, 2008; 105: 3215-3220.
(In "Evolution")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
25.  Ramamurthy Mani, Robert P. St.Onge, John L. Hartman, Guri Giaever, Frederick P. Roth
Defining genetic interaction
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Mar 04, 2008; 105: 3461-3466.
(In "Genetics")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
26.  Marcus Krüger, Irina Kratchmarova, Blagoy Blagoev, Yu-Hua Tseng, C. Ronald Kahn, Matthias Mann
Dissection of the insulin signaling pathway via quantitative phosphoproteomics
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Feb 19, 2008; 105: 2451-2456.
(In "Cell Biology")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
27.  Jorge Frias-Lopez, Yanmei Shi, Gene W. Tyson, Maureen L. Coleman, Stephan C. Schuster, Sallie W. Chisholm, Edward F. DeLong
From the Cover: Microbial community gene expression in ocean surface waters
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Mar 11, 2008; 105: 3805-3810.
(In "Environmental_Sciences-BS")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
28.  David Jackson, Md. Jaber Hossain, Danielle Hickman, Daniel R. Perez, Robert A. Lamb
A new influenza virus virulence determinant: The NS1 protein four C-terminal residues modulate pathogenicity
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Mar 11, 2008; doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800482105.
(In "Microbiology")   [Abstract]     [PDF]
 
29.  Francisco J. Ayala
Science, evolution, and creationism
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Jan 08, 2008; 105: 3-4.
(In "Editorial")   [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
30.  Carola Holweg, Peter Nick
Retraction for Holweg and Nick, Arabidopsis myosin XI mutant is defective in organelle movement and polar auxin transport
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Mar 04, 2008; 105: 3658-3658.
(In "Retraction")   [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
31.  Suling Liu, Christophe Ginestier, Emmanuelle Charafe-Jauffret, Hailey Foco, Celina G. Kleer, Sofia D. Merajver, Gabriela Dontu, Max S. Wicha
BRCA1 regulates human mammary stem/progenitor cell fate
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Feb 05, 2008; 105: 1680-1685.
(In "Medical Sciences")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
32.  Jenny R. Saffran, Ann Senghas, John C. Trueswell
The acquisition of language by children
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Nov 06, 2001; 98: 12874-12875.
(In "From The Academy")   [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
33.  Marios Giannakis, Swaine L. Chen, Sherif M. Karam, Lars Engstrand, Jeffrey I. Gordon
Helicobacter pylori evolution during progression from chronic atrophic gastritis to gastric cancer and its impact on gastric stem cells
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Mar 10, 2008; doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800668105.
(In "Microbiology")   [Abstract]     [PDF]
 
34.  M. Elizabeth Halloran, Neil M. Ferguson, Stephen Eubank, Ira M. Longini, Derek A. T. Cummings, Bryan Lewis, Shufu Xu, Christophe Fraser, Anil Vullikanti, Timothy C. Germann, Diane Wagener, Richard Beckman, Kai Kadau, Chris Barrett, Catherine A. Macken, Donald S. Burke, Philip Cooley
Modeling targeted layered containment of an influenza pandemic in the United States
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Mar 10, 2008; doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706849105.
(In "Environmental_Sciences")   [Abstract]     [PDF]
 
35.  M. R. Schmer, K. P. Vogel, R. B. Mitchell, R. K. Perrin
Net energy of cellulosic ethanol from switchgrass
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Jan 15, 2008; 105: 464-469.
(In "Agricultural Sciences")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
36.  Angela C. Poole, Ruth E. Thomas, Laurie A. Andrews, Heidi M. McBride, Alexander J. Whitworth, Leo J. Pallanck
The PINK1/Parkin pathway regulates mitochondrial morphology
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Feb 05, 2008; 105: 1638-1643.
(In "Genetics")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
37.  Min Li, Baohong Wang, Menghui Zhang, Mattias Rantalainen, Shengyue Wang, Haokui Zhou, Yan Zhang, Jian Shen, Xiaoyan Pang, Meiling Zhang, Hua Wei, Yu Chen, Haifeng Lu, Jian Zuo, Mingming Su, Yunping Qiu, Wei Jia, Chaoni Xiao, Leon M. Smith, Shengli Yang, Elaine Holmes, Huiru Tang, Guoping Zhao, Jeremy K. Nicholson, Lanjuan Li, Liping Zhao
Symbiotic gut microbes modulate human metabolic phenotypes
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Feb 12, 2008; 105: 2117-2122.
(In "Microbiology")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
38.  Jean William Pape, Paul Farmer, Serena Koenig, Daniel Fitzgerald, Peter Wright, Warren Johnson
The epidemiology of AIDS in Haiti refutes the claims of Gilbert et al.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Mar 11, 2008; 105: 13-13.
(In "Letters")   [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
39.  Madhu S. Kumar, Stefan J. Erkeland, Ryan E. Pester, Cindy Y. Chen, Margaret S. Ebert, Phillip A. Sharp, Tyler Jacks
Suppression of non-small cell lung tumor development by the let-7 microRNA family
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Mar 11, 2008; 105: 3903-3908.
(In "Medical Sciences")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
40.  Myung Soo Cho, Young-Eun Lee, Ji Young Kim, Seungsoo Chung, Yoon Hee Cho, Dae-Sung Kim, Sang-Moon Kang, Haksup Lee, Myung-Hwa Kim, Jeong-Hoon Kim, Joong Woo Leem, Sun Kyung Oh, Young Min Choi, Dong-Youn Hwang, Jin Woo Chang, Dong-Wook Kim
Highly efficient and large-scale generation of functional dopamine neurons from human embryonic stem cells
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Mar 04, 2008; 105: 3392-3397.
(In "Developmental Biology")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
41.  Ardian Jusufi, Daniel I. Goldman, Shai Revzen, Robert J. Full
From the Cover: Active tails enhance arboreal acrobatics in geckos
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Mar 18, 2008; 105: 4215-4219.
(In "Evolution")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
42.  Kalai Mathee, Giri Narasimhan, Camilo Valdes, Xiaoyun Qiu, Jody M. Matewish, Michael Koehrsen, Antonis Rokas, Chandri N. Yandava, Reinhard Engels, Erliang Zeng, Raquel Olavarietta, Melissa Doud, Roger S. Smith, Philip Montgomery, Jared R. White, Paul A. Godfrey, Chinnappa Kodira, Bruce Birren, James E. Galagan, Stephen Lory
Dynamics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa genome evolution
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Feb 26, 2008; 105: 3100-3105.
(In "Microbiology")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
43.  Raymond E. Goldstein, Idan Tuval, Jan-Willem van de Meent
From the Cover: Microfluidics of cytoplasmic streaming and its implications for intracellular transport
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Mar 11, 2008; 105: 3663-3667.
(In "Biophysics")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
44.  Anirban Bandyopadhyay, Somobrata Acharya
A 16-bit parallel processing in a molecular assembly
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Mar 11, 2008; 105: 3668-3672.
(In "Applied Physical Sciences")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
45.  John Damuth
Scaling of growth: Plants and animals are not so different
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Feb 27, 2001; 98: 2113-2114.
(In "Commentary")   [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
46.  Cheng Lu, Dong-Hoon Jeong, Karthik Kulkarni, Manoj Pillay, Kan Nobuta, Rana German, Shawn R. Thatcher, Christopher Maher, Lifang Zhang, Doreen Ware, Bin Liu, Xiaofeng Cao, Blake C. Meyers, Pamela J. Green
Genome-wide analysis for discovery of rice microRNAs reveals natural antisense microRNAs (nat-miRNAs)
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Mar 25, 2008; 105: 4951-4956.
(In "Plant Biology")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
47.  Eric P. Meyer, Alexandra Ulmann-Schuler, Matthias Staufenbiel, Thomas Krucker
Altered morphology and 3D architecture of brain vasculature in a mouse model for Alzheimer's disease
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Mar 04, 2008; 105: 3587-3592.
(In "Neuroscience")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
48.  Eric Bonabeau
Agent-based modeling: Methods and techniques for simulating human systems
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA May 14, 2002; 99: 7280-7287.
(In "Colloquium")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
49.  Stanley B. Prusiner
Prions
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Nov 10, 1998; 95: 13363-13383.
(In "Nobel")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
50.  Ailan Guo, Judit Villén, Jon Kornhauser, Kimberly A. Lee, Matthew P. Stokes, Klarisa Rikova, Anthony Possemato, Julie Nardone, Gregory Innocenti, Randall Wetzel, Yi Wang, Joan MacNeill, Jeffrey Mitchell, Steven P. Gygi, John Rush, Roberto D. Polakiewicz, Michael J. Comb
Signaling networks assembled by oncogenic EGFR and c-Met
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Jan 15, 2008; 105: 692-697.
(In "Medical Sciences")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
  
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