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June 07, 2011; vol. 108 no. 23

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    In This Issue
    PNAS June 7, 2011 108 (23) 9317-9318; https://doi.org/10.1073/iti2311108

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    High-precision dating of colonization and settlement in East Polynesia
    Mara A. Mulrooney, Simon H. Bickler, Melinda S. Allen, and Thegn N. Ladefoged
    PNAS June 7, 2011 108 (23) E192-E194; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1100447108
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    Reply to Mulrooney et al.: Accepting lower precision radiocarbon dates results in longer colonization chronologies for East Polynesia
    Janet M. Wilmshurst, Terry L. Hunt, Carl P. Lipo, and Atholl J. Anderson
    PNAS June 7, 2011 108 (23) E195; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1101348108
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    Building interdisciplinary frameworks: The importance of institutions, scale, and politics
    Claudia Romero and Arun Agrawal
    PNAS June 7, 2011 108 (23) E196; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1104320108
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    Reply to Romero and Agrawal: Unpacking the specific links between biodiversity, ecosystem services, and social diversity is an essential first step
    Sandra Díaz, Fabien Quétier, Sarah F. Trainor, and Daniel M. Cáceres
    PNAS June 7, 2011 108 (23) E197; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1104742108

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    The demise of “Nutcracker Man”
    Julia Lee-Thorp
    PNAS June 7, 2011 108 (23) 9319-9320; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1105808108

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    • Diet of Paranthropus boisei in the early Pleistocene of East Africa
      - May 02, 2011
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    Surface tension helps a tongue grab liquid
    Steven Vogel
    PNAS June 7, 2011 108 (23) 9321-9322; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1107208108

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    • The hummingbird tongue is a fluid trap, not a capillary tube
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    Museum collections: Mining the past to manage the future
    Karen R. Lips
    PNAS June 7, 2011 108 (23) 9323-9324; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1107246108

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    • Coincident mass extirpation of neotropical amphibians with the emergence of the infectious fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
      - May 04, 2011

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    QnAs with Leroy E. Hood
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    PNAS June 7, 2011 108 (23) 9325; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1105859108

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      Paul trapping of charged particles in aqueous solution
      Weihua Guan, Sony Joseph, Jae Hyun Park, Predrag S. Krstić, and Mark A. Reed
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      Quan Yuan, Yunfei Zhang, Yan Chen, Ruowen Wang, Chaoling Du, Emir Yasun, and Weihong Tan
      PNAS June 7, 2011 108 (23) 9331-9336; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1018358108
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      Kinetics of cyclobutane thymine dimer splitting by DNA photolyase directly monitored in the UV
      Viruthachalam Thiagarajan, Martin Byrdin, André P. M. Eker, Pavel Müller, and Klaus Brettel
      PNAS June 7, 2011 108 (23) 9402-9407; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1101026108
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      Selectivity of terrestrial gastropod extinctions on an oceanic archipelago and insights into the anthropogenic extinction process
      Satoshi Chiba and Kaustuv Roy
      PNAS June 7, 2011 108 (23) 9496-9501; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1100085108
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      Diet of Paranthropus boisei in the early Pleistocene of East Africa
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      Thure E. Cerling, Emma Mbua, Francis M. Kirera, Fredrick Kyalo Manthi, Frederick E. Grine, Meave G. Leakey, Matt Sponheimer, and Kevin T. Uno
      PNAS June 7, 2011 108 (23) 9337-9341; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1104627108

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      Phonons of the anomalous element cerium
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      Active multistage coarsening of actin networks driven by myosin motors
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      PNAS June 7, 2011 108 (23) 9408-9413; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1016616108
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      Dynamics of enzymatic digestion of elastic fibers and networks under tension
      Ascânio D. Araújo, Arnab Majumdar, Harikrishnan Parameswaran, Eunice Yi, Jean L. Spencer, Matthew A. Nugent, and Béla Suki
      PNAS June 7, 2011 108 (23) 9414-9419; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1019188108

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      Impaired capacity for familiarity after hippocampal damage
      Zhuang Song, John T. Wixted, Ramona O. Hopkins, and Larry R. Squire
      PNAS June 7, 2011 108 (23) 9655-9660; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1107247108
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      Simple line drawings suffice for functional MRI decoding of natural scene categories
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      The hummingbird tongue is a fluid trap, not a capillary tube
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      Alejandro Rico-Guevara and Margaret A. Rubega
      PNAS June 7, 2011 108 (23) 9356-9360; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1016944108

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      PNAS June 7, 2011 108 (23) 9361-9366; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1105687108
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      Core unit of chemotaxis signaling complexes
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      PNAS June 7, 2011 108 (23) 9390-9395; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1104824108
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      PNAS June 7, 2011 108 (23) 9414-9419; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1019188108
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      PNAS June 7, 2011 108 (23) 9460-9465; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1102356108
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      Transfer characteristics of a thermosensory synapse in Caenorhabditis elegans
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      Sparse low-order interaction network underlies a highly correlated and learnable neural population code
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      Neural correlates of illusory motion perception in Drosophila
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      Genetic modulation of horizontal cell number in the mouse retina
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      ES cell-derived renewable and functional midbrain dopaminergic progenitors
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      Convergent transcription confers a bistable switch in Enterococcus faecalis conjugation
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