Most-Read Articles during January 2010 -- updated monthly

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  1. Physical Sciences: Physics:
    • Edward H. Kerner
    An extension of the concept of inertial frame and of Lorentz transformationPNAS 1976 73:1418-1421
  2. Editorial:
    • Alan Fersht
    The most influential journals: Impact Factor and EigenfactorPNAS 2009 106:6883-6884; published online before print April 20, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0903307106
  3. Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Jin Tang
    • and Ronald R. Breaker
    Structural diversity of self-cleaving ribozymesPNAS 2000 97:5784-5789
  4. Genetics:
    • Tze-Tuan Chen
    Conjugation of Three Animals in Paramecium BursariaPNAS 1940 26:231-238
  5. Introductory Perspective - Social Sciences - Sustainability Science:
    • Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
    From the Cover: Tipping Elements in Earth Systems Special Feature: Tipping elements in the Earth SystemPNAS 2009 106:20561-20563; published online before print December 7, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0911106106
  6. Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Joshua M. Akey,
    • Alison L. Ruhe,
    • Dayna T. Akey,
    • Aaron K. Wong,
    • Caitlin F. Connelly,
    • Jennifer Madeoy,
    • Thomas J. Nicholas,
    • and Mark W. Neff
    Tracking footprints of artificial selection in the dog genomePNAS 2010 107:1160-1165; published online before print January 11, 2010, doi:10.1073/pnas.0909918107
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  7. Mathematics:
    • John F. Nash, Jr.
    Equilibrium Points in N-Person GamesPNAS 1950 36:48-49
  8. Social Sciences - Psychological and Cognitive Sciences:
    • Sian L. Beilock,
    • Elizabeth A. Gunderson,
    • Gerardo Ramirez,
    • and Susan C. Levine
    Female teachers’ math anxiety affects girls’ math achievementPNAS published online before print January 25, 2010, doi:10.1073/pnas.0910967107
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  9. Physical Sciences - Physics:
    • J. E. Hirsch
    An index to quantify an individual's scientific research outputPNAS 2005 102:16569-16572; published online before print November 7, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507655102
  10. Letter:
    • Christian P. Robert,
    • Kerrie Mengersen,
    • and Carla Chen
    Model choice versus model criticismPNAS 2010 107:E5; published online before print January 14, 2010, doi:10.1073/pnas.0911260107
  11. Physical Sciences - Engineering:
    • Haimin Yao,
    • Ming Dao,
    • Timothy Imholt,
    • Jamie Huang,
    • Kevin Wheeler,
    • Alejandro Bonilla,
    • Subra Suresh,
    • and Christine Ortiz
    Protection mechanisms of the iron-plated armor of a deep-sea hydrothermal vent gastropodPNAS 2010 107:987-992; doi:10.1073/pnas.0912988107
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    • Kathleen Collins,
    • Tyler Jacks,
    • and Nikola P. Pavletich
    From the Academy: The cell cycle and cancerPNAS 1997 94:2776-2778
  13. Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • James Bean,
    • Cameron Brennan,
    • Jin-Yuan Shih,
    • Gregory Riely,
    • Agnes Viale,
    • Lu Wang,
    • Dhananjay Chitale,
    • Noriko Motoi,
    • Janos Szoke,
    • Stephen Broderick,
    • Marissa Balak,
    • Wen-Cheng Chang,
    • Chong-Jen Yu,
    • Adi Gazdar,
    • Harvey Pass,
    • Valerie Rusch,
    • William Gerald,
    • Shiu-Feng Huang,
    • Pan-Chyr Yang,
    • Vincent Miller,
    • Marc Ladanyi,
    • Chih-Hsin Yang,
    • and William Pao
    MET amplification occurs with or without T790M mutations in EGFR mutant lung tumors with acquired resistance to gefitinib or erlotinibPNAS 2007 104:20932-20937; published online before print December 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710370104
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  14. Physical Sciences - Environmental Sciences:
    • James Hansen,
    • Makiko Sato,
    • Reto Ruedy,
    • Ken Lo,
    • David W. Lea,
    • and Martin Medina-Elizade
    Global temperature changePNAS 2006 103:14288-14293; published online before print September 25, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606291103
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  15. Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Carsten Egevang,
    • Iain J. Stenhouse,
    • Richard A. Phillips,
    • Aevar Petersen,
    • James W. Fox,
    • and Janet R. D. Silk
    Tracking of Arctic terns Sterna paradisaea reveals longest animal migrationPNAS published online before print January 11, 2010, doi:10.1073/pnas.0909493107
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  16. Biological Sciences - Neuroscience:
    • Jorge Moll,
    • Frank Krueger,
    • Roland Zahn,
    • Matteo Pardini,
    • Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza,
    • and Jordan Grafman
    Human fronto–mesolimbic networks guide decisions about charitable donationPNAS 2006 103:15623-15628; published online before print October 9, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0604475103
  17. Letter:
    • Larry Benowitz
    • and Yuqin Yin
    Reply to Fischer: Are there valid scientific reasons for questioning our results?PNAS 2010 107:E9; published online before print January 14, 2010, doi:10.1073/pnas.0913513107
  18. Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Michael B. Eisen,
    • Paul T. Spellman,
    • Patrick O. Brown,
    • and David Botstein
    Cluster analysis and display of genome-wide expression patternsPNAS 1998 95:14863-14868
  19. Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Mary E. Rumpho,
    • Jared M. Worful,
    • Jungho Lee,
    • Krishna Kannan,
    • Mary S. Tyler,
    • Debashish Bhattacharya,
    • Ahmed Moustafa,
    • and James R. Manhart
    From the Cover: Horizontal gene transfer of the algal nuclear gene psbO to the photosynthetic sea slug Elysia chloroticaPNAS 2008 105:17867-17871; published online before print November 11, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0804968105
  20. Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Yanrong Wu,
    • Kwame Sefah,
    • Haipeng Liu,
    • Ruowen Wang,
    • and Weihong Tan
    DNA aptamer–micelle as an efficient detection/delivery vehicle toward cancer cellsPNAS 2010 107:5-10; published online before print December 22, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0909611107
    • Eric Bonabeau
    Colloquium Paper: Adaptive Agents, Intelligence, and Emergent Human Organization: Capturing Complexity through Agent-Based Modeling: Agent-based modeling: Methods and techniques for simulating human systemsPNAS 2002 99:7280-7287; doi:10.1073/pnas.082080899
  22. Perspective - Physical Sciences - Sustainability Science:
    • Timothy M. Lenton,
    • Hermann Held,
    • Elmar Kriegler,
    • Jim W. Hall,
    • Wolfgang Lucht,
    • Stefan Rahmstorf,
    • and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
    Inaugural Article: Tipping elements in the Earth's climate systemPNAS 2008 105:1786-1793; published online before print February 7, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705414105
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  23. Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Aravind Subramanian,
    • Pablo Tamayo,
    • Vamsi K. Mootha,
    • Sayan Mukherjee,
    • Benjamin L. Ebert,
    • Michael A. Gillette,
    • Amanda Paulovich,
    • Scott L. Pomeroy,
    • Todd R. Golub,
    • Eric S. Lander,
    • and Jill P. Mesirov
    From the Cover: Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profilesPNAS 2005 102:15545-15550; published online before print September 30, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0506580102
  24. Social Sciences - Economic Sciences - Biological Sciences - Neuroscience:
    • Bernd Weber,
    • Antonio Rangel,
    • Matthias Wibral,
    • and Armin Falk
    The medial prefrontal cortex exhibits money illusionPNAS 2009 106:5025-5028; published online before print March 23, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0901490106
  25. U.S. Frontiers Of Science Symposium:
    • Jenny R. Saffran,
    • Ann Senghas,
    • and John C. Trueswell
    From the Academy: The acquisition of language by childrenPNAS 2001 98:12874-12875; published online before print October 30, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.231498898
  26. Inaugural Article - Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Michael Lynch
    Rate, molecular spectrum, and consequences of human mutationPNAS 2010 107:961-968; published online before print January 4, 2010, doi:10.1073/pnas.0912629107
  27. Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Pascal Pineau,
    • Stefano Volinia,
    • Katherine McJunkin,
    • Agnès Marchio,
    • Carlo Battiston,
    • Benoît Terris,
    • Vincenzo Mazzaferro,
    • Scott W. Lowe,
    • Carlo M. Croce,
    • and Anne Dejean
    miR-221 overexpression contributes to liver tumorigenesisPNAS 2010 107:264-269; published online before print December 15, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0907904107
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  28. Letter:
    • Luis Alberto Campos,
    • Jianwei Liu,
    • and Victor Muñoz
    The importance of being quantitativePNAS 2009 106:E139; published online before print December 15, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0912057107
  29. Physical Sciences - Engineering - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • YongKeun Park,
    • Catherine A. Best,
    • Thorsten Auth,
    • Nir S. Gov,
    • Samuel A. Safran,
    • Gabriel Popescu,
    • Subra Suresh,
    • and Michael S. Feld
    Metabolic remodeling of the human red blood cell membranePNAS 2010 107:1289-1294; published online before print January 6, 2010, doi:10.1073/pnas.0910785107
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  30. Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
    • Kwang-Il Goh,
    • Michael E. Cusick,
    • David Valle,
    • Barton Childs,
    • Marc Vidal,
    • and Albert-László Barabási
    The human disease networkPNAS 2007 104:8685-8690; published online before print May 14, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701361104
  31. Biological Sciences - Neuroscience:
    • Antoine Lutz,
    • Lawrence L. Greischar,
    • Nancy B. Rawlings,
    • Matthieu Ricard,
    • and Richard J. Davidson
    Long-term meditators self-induce high-amplitude gamma synchrony during mental practicePNAS 2004 101:16369-16373; published online before print November 8, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407401101
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  32. Biological Sciences - Ecology - Social Sciences - Sustainability Science:
    • Jason Hill,
    • Erik Nelson,
    • David Tilman,
    • Stephen Polasky,
    • and Douglas Tiffany
    From the Cover: Environmental, economic, and energetic costs and benefits of biodiesel and ethanol biofuelsPNAS 2006 103:11206-11210; published online before print July 12, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0604600103
  33. Letter:
    • Brajesh K. Singh
    Archaea in a hyper-arid polar desertPNAS 2010 107:E1; doi:10.1073/pnas.0912316107
  34. U.S. Frontiers Of Science Symposium:
    • Martin H. Visbeck,
    • James W. Hurrell,
    • Lorenzo Polvani,
    • and Heidi M. Cullen
    From the Academy: The North Atlantic Oscillation: Past, present, and futurePNAS 2001 98:12876-12877; published online before print October 30, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.231391598
  35. Letter:
    • Fang Huang,
    • Liming Ying,
    • Hannes Neuweiler,
    • and Alan R. Fersht
    Reply to Campos et al.: Direct observation versus ambiguous kinetics and thermodynamicsPNAS 2009 106:E140; published online before print December 15, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0913321107
  36. Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences - Biological Sciences - Biophysics and Computational Biology:
    • Andrey Sokolov,
    • Mario M. Apodaca,
    • Bartosz A. Grzybowski,
    • and Igor S. Aranson
    Swimming bacteria power microscopic gearsPNAS 2010 107:969-974; doi:10.1073/pnas.0913015107
  37. Social Sciences - Psychological and Cognitive Sciences - Biological Sciences - Neuroscience:
    • Nicholas Epley,
    • Benjamin A. Converse,
    • Alexa Delbosc,
    • George A. Monteleone,
    • and John T. Cacioppo
    Believers' estimates of God's beliefs are more egocentric than estimates of other people's beliefsPNAS 2009 106:21533-21538; published online before print December 2, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0908374106
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    • Joseph V. Smith
    Colloquium Paper: Geology, mineralogy, and human welfarePNAS 1999 96:3348-3349
  39. Physical Sciences - Statistics - Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Zhengqing Ouyang,
    • Qing Zhou,
    • and Wing Hung Wong
    ChIP-Seq of transcription factors predicts absolute and differential gene expression in embryonic stem cellsPNAS 2009 106:21521-21526; published online before print December 7, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0904863106
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  40. Physical Sciences - Geology - Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • James Haile,
    • Duane G. Froese,
    • Ross D. E. MacPhee,
    • Richard G. Roberts,
    • Lee J. Arnold,
    • Alberto V. Reyes,
    • Morten Rasmussen,
    • Rasmus Nielsen,
    • Barry W. Brook,
    • Simon Robinson,
    • Martina Demuro,
    • M. Thomas P. Gilbert,
    • Kasper Munch,
    • Jeremy J. Austin,
    • Alan Cooper,
    • Ian Barnes,
    • Per Möller,
    • and Eske Willerslev
    Ancient DNA reveals late survival of mammoth and horse in interior AlaskaPNAS 2009 106:22352-22357; published online before print December 17, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0912510106
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  41. Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Won-Suk Chung,
    • Olov Andersson,
    • Richard Row,
    • David Kimelman,
    • and Didier Y. R. Stainier
    Suppression of Alk8-mediated Bmp signaling cell-autonomously induces pancreatic β-cells in zebrafishPNAS 2010 107:1142-1147; published online before print December 29, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0910205107
  42. Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Katarzyna Bryc,
    • Adam Auton,
    • Matthew R. Nelson,
    • Jorge R. Oksenberg,
    • Stephen L. Hauser,
    • Scott Williams,
    • Alain Froment,
    • Jean-Marie Bodo,
    • Charles Wambebe,
    • Sarah A. Tishkoff,
    • and Carlos D. Bustamante
    Genome-wide patterns of population structure and admixture in West Africans and African AmericansPNAS 2010 107:786-791; published online before print December 22, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0909559107
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  43. Biological Sciences - Agricultural Sciences:
    • Todd A. Gaines,
    • Wenli Zhang,
    • Dafu Wang,
    • Bekir Bukun,
    • Stephen T. Chisholm,
    • Dale L. Shaner,
    • Scott J. Nissen,
    • William L. Patzoldt,
    • Patrick J. Tranel,
    • A. Stanley Culpepper,
    • Timothy L. Grey,
    • Theodore M. Webster,
    • William K. Vencill,
    • R. Douglas Sammons,
    • Jiming Jiang,
    • Christopher Preston,
    • Jan E. Leach,
    • and Philip Westra
    Gene amplification confers glyphosate resistance in Amaranthus palmeriPNAS 2010 107:1029-1034; published online before print December 14, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0906649107
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  44. Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Kirill A. Datsenko
    • and Barry L. Wanner
    One-step inactivation of chromosomal genes in Escherichia coli K-12 using PCR productsPNAS 2000 97:6640-6645
  45. Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Arvind Ramanathan
    • and Stuart L. Schreiber
    Direct control of mitochondrial function by mTORPNAS 2009 106:22229-22232; published online before print December 22, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0912074106
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  46. Perspective:
    • Rob Phillips
    • and Ron Milo
    A feeling for the numbers in biologyPNAS 2009 106:21465-21471; published online before print December 14, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0907732106
  47. Feature Article - Social Sciences - Sustainability Science - Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Bruce C. Forbes,
    • Florian Stammler,
    • Timo Kumpula,
    • Nina Meschtyb,
    • Anu Pajunen,
    • and Elina Kaarlejärvi
    From the Cover: High resilience in the Yamal-Nenets social–ecological system, West Siberian Arctic, RussiaPNAS 2009 106:22041-22048; published online before print December 10, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0908286106
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  48. Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Patrick S. Mitchell,
    • Rachael K. Parkin,
    • Evan M. Kroh,
    • Brian R. Fritz,
    • Stacia K. Wyman,
    • Era L. Pogosova-Agadjanyan,
    • Amelia Peterson,
    • Jennifer Noteboom,
    • Kathy C. O'Briant,
    • April Allen,
    • Daniel W. Lin,
    • Nicole Urban,
    • Charles W. Drescher,
    • Beatrice S. Knudsen,
    • Derek L. Stirewalt,
    • Robert Gentleman,
    • Robert L. Vessella,
    • Peter S. Nelson,
    • Daniel B. Martin,
    • and Muneesh Tewari
    Circulating microRNAs as stable blood-based markers for cancer detectionPNAS 2008 105:10513-10518; published online before print July 28, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0804549105
  49. Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Michael Ristow,
    • Kim Zarse,
    • Andreas Oberbach,
    • Nora Klöting,
    • Marc Birringer,
    • Michael Kiehntopf,
    • Michael Stumvoll,
    • C. Ronald Kahn,
    • and Matthias Blüher
    Antioxidants prevent health-promoting effects of physical exercise in humansPNAS 2009 106:8665-8670; published online before print May 11, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0903485106
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  50. Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Ji-Ho Park,
    • Geoffrey von Maltzahn,
    • Mary Jue Xu,
    • Valentina Fogal,
    • Venkata Ramana Kotamraju,
    • Erkki Ruoslahti,
    • Sangeeta N. Bhatia,
    • and Michael J. Sailor
    Cooperative nanomaterial system to sensitize, target, and treat tumorsPNAS 2010 107:981-986; doi:10.1073/pnas.0909565107

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