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October 13, 2015; vol. 112 no. 41

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    In This Issue
    PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12541-12542; https://doi.org/10.1073/iti4115112

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    Refuting the evidence for an earlier birth of the Taklimakan Desert
    Jimin Sun, Brent Alloway, Xiaomin Fang, and Brian F. Windley
    PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) E5556-E5557; first published October 1, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1517525112
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    Reply to Sun et al.: Confirming the evidence for Late Oligocene−Early Miocene birth of the Taklimakan Desert
    Hongbo Zheng, Xiaochun Wei, Ryuji Tada, Peter D. Clift, Bin Wang, Fred Jourdan, Ping Wang, and Mengying He
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    Opinion: A new approach to financial regulation
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    Simon A. Levin and Andrew W. Lo
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    Science and Culture: Making a pitch for female engineers
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    Amber Dance
    PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12545-12546; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1517377112

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    Activated OCP unlocks nonphotochemical quenching in cyanobacteria
    Richard J. Cogdell and Alastair T. Gardiner
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    Illuminating the dark matter in metabolomics
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    Psychological and neural correlates of the emergence of morality in toddlers
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    Evolutionary paths of least resistance
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    PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12555-12556; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.ss11241

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      CD8 T-cell recognition of acquired alloantigen promotes acute allograft rejection
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      Extinction reverses olfactory fear-conditioned increases in neuron number and glomerular size
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      Adiponectin supplementation in pregnant mice prevents the adverse effects of maternal obesity on placental function and fetal growth
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      ACHT4-driven oxidation of APS1 attenuates starch synthesis under low light intensity in Arabidopsis plants
      Erez Eliyahu, Ido Rog, Dangoor Inbal, and Avihai Danon
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      Topology-defined units in numerosity perception
      Lixia He, Ke Zhou, Tiangang Zhou, Sheng He, and Lin Chen
      PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) E5647-E5655; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1512408112
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      Stress impairs cognitive flexibility in infants
      Sabine Seehagen, Silvia Schneider, Julia Rudolph, Stephanie Ernst, and Norbert Zmyj
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      Genetic specificity of face recognition
      Nicholas G. Shakeshaft and Robert Plomin
      PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12887-12892; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1421881112
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      Discriminating direct and indirect connectivities in biological networks
      Taek Kang, Richard Moore, Yi Li, Eduardo Sontag, and Leonidas Bleris
      PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12893-12898; first published September 29, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1507168112
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