Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: 112 (41)

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October 13, 2015; vol. 112 no. 41

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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

PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) E5558-E5559; first published October 1, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1517735112
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Birth of the Taklimakan Desert
- Jun 08, 2015

Opinion

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Opinion: A new approach to financial regulation
Front Matter
Simon A. Levin and Andrew W. Lo

PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12543-12544; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1518385112

Science and Culture

How science intersects with culture.

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Science and Culture: Making a pitch for female engineers
Front Matter
Amber Dance

PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12545-12546; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1517377112

Commentaries

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Activated OCP unlocks nonphotochemical quenching in cyanobacteria
Richard J. Cogdell and Alastair T. Gardiner

PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12547-12548; first published October 2, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1517477112
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Solution structure of OCPR
- Sep 18, 2015
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Illuminating the dark matter in metabolomics
Ricardo R. da Silva, Pieter C. Dorrestein, and Robert A. Quinn

PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12549-12550; first published October 1, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1516878112
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Searching structure databases using CSI:FingerID
- Sep 21, 2015
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Psychological and neural correlates of the emergence of morality in toddlers
Markus Paulus

PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12551-12552; first published October 5, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1516744112
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Developmental moral neuroscience
- Aug 31, 2015
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Evolutionary paths of least resistance
Claus O. Wilke

PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12553-12554; first published October 1, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1517390112
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Mistranslation and robustness in TEM-1
- Sep 21, 2015

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PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12555-12556; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.ss11241

Physical Sciences

Applied Physical Sciences
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  Mesoscopic quantum emitters from deterministic aggregates of conjugated polymers
  Thomas Stangl, Philipp Wilhelm, Klaas Remmerssen, Sigurd Höger, Jan Vogelsang, and John M. Lupton
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) E5560-E5566; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1512582112
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  Asymmetric nanotopography biases cytoskeletal dynamics and promotes unidirectional cell guidance
  Xiaoyu Sun, Meghan K. Driscoll, Can Guven, Satarupa Das, Carole A. Parent, John T. Fourkas, and Wolfgang Losert
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12557-12562; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1502970112
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  Estimation of solid–liquid interfacial tension using curved surface of a soft solid
  Subrata Mondal, Monmee Phukan, and Animangsu Ghatak
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12563-12568; first published September 29, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1502642112
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  X-ray microtomography using correlation of near-field speckles for material characterization
  Irene Zanette, Marie-Christine Zdora, Tunhe Zhou, Anna Burvall, Daniel H. Larsson, Pierre Thibault, Hans M. Hertz, and Franz Pfeiffer
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12569-12573; first published September 30, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1502828112
Chemistry
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  Chemically tunable mucin chimeras assembled on living cells
  Jessica R. Kramer, Bibiana Onoa, Carlos Bustamante, and Carolyn R. Bertozzi
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12574-12579; first published September 29, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1516127112
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  Searching molecular structure databases with tandem mass spectra using CSI:FingerID
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  Kai Dührkop, Huibin Shen, Marvin Meusel, Juho Rousu, and Sebastian Böcker
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12580-12585; first published September 21, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1509788112
  
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  Illuminating the dark matter in metabolomics
  - Oct 01, 2015
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  Evolution of moth sex pheromone composition by a single amino acid substitution in a fatty acid desaturase
  Aleš Buček, Petra Matoušková, Heiko Vogel, Petr Šebesta, Ullrich Jahn, Jerrit Weißflog, Aleš Svatoš, and Iva Pichová
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12586-12591; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1514566112
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
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  Chemical, experimental, and morphological evidence for diagenetically altered melanin in exceptionally preserved fossils
  Caitlin Colleary, Andrei Dolocan, James Gardner, Suresh Singh, Michael Wuttke, Renate Rabenstein, Jörg Habersetzer, Stephan Schaal, Mulugeta Feseha, Matthew Clemens, Bonnie F. Jacobs, Ellen D. Currano, Louis L. Jacobs, Rene Lyng Sylvestersen, Sarah E. Gabbott, and Jakob Vinther
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12592-12597; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1509831112
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  Quantified abundance of magnetofossils at the Paleocene–Eocene boundary from synchrotron-based transmission X-ray microscopy
  Huapei Wang, Jun Wang, Yu-chen Karen Chen-Wiegart, and Dennis V. Kent
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12598-12603; first published September 29, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1517475112
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  Orbital pacing of carbon fluxes by a ∼9-My eccentricity cycle during the Mesozoic
  Mathieu Martinez and Guillaume Dera
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12604-12609; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1419946112
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  Increased threat of tropical cyclones and coastal flooding to New York City during the anthropogenic era
  Andra J. Reed, Michael E. Mann, Kerry A. Emanuel, Ning Lin, Benjamin P. Horton, Andrew C. Kemp, and Jeffrey P. Donnelly
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12610-12615; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1513127112
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  Experimental test of the viscous anisotropy hypothesis for partially molten rocks
  Chao Qi, David L. Kohlstedt, Richard F. Katz, and Yasuko Takei
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12616-12620; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1513790112
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  Long-term reliability of the Athabasca River (Alberta, Canada) as the water source for oil sands mining
  David J. Sauchyn, Jeannine-Marie St-Jacques, and Brian H. Luckman
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12621-12626; first published September 21, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1509726112
Engineering
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  Mathematical framework for activity-based cancer biomarkers
  Gabriel A. Kwong, Jaideep S. Dudani, Emmanuel Carrodeguas, Eric V. Mazumdar, Seyedeh M. Zekavat, and Sangeeta N. Bhatia
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12627-12632; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1506925112
Environmental Sciences
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  Ecosystem carbon stocks and sequestration potential of federal lands across the conterminous United States
  Zhengxi Tan, Shuguang Liu, Terry L. Sohl, Yiping Wu, and Claudia J. Young
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12723-12728; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1512542112
Physics
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  Extreme events in computational turbulence
  P. K. Yeung, X. M. Zhai, and Katepalli R. Sreenivasan
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12633-12638; first published September 30, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1517368112
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  Wrinkles and splay conspire to give positive disclinations negative curvature
  Elisabetta A. Matsumoto, Daniel A. Vega, Aldo D. Pezzutti, Nicolás A. García, Paul M. Chaikin, and Richard A. Register
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12639-12644; first published September 29, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1514379112
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  Fibonacci family of dynamical universality classes
  Vladislav Popkov, Andreas Schadschneider, Johannes Schmidt, and Gunter M. Schütz
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12645-12650; first published September 30, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1512261112
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  Minimal model for collective kinetochore–microtubule dynamics
  Edward J. Banigan, Kevin K. Chiou, Edward R. Ballister, Alyssa M. Mayo, Michael A. Lampson, and Andrea J. Liu
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12699-12704; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1513512112
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  Intermittent collective dynamics emerge from conflicting imperatives in sheep herds
  Francesco Ginelli, Fernando Peruani, Marie-Helène Pillot, Hugues Chaté, Guy Theraulaz, and Richard Bon
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12729-12734; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1503749112

Biological Sciences

Agricultural Sciences
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  A parasitic nematode releases cytokinin that controls cell division and orchestrates feeding site formation in host plants
  Shahid Siddique, Zoran S. Radakovic, Carola M. De La Torre, Demosthenis Chronis, Ondřej Novák, Eswarayya Ramireddy, Julia Holbein, Christiane Matera, Marion Hütten, Philipp Gutbrod, Muhammad Shahzad Anjam, Elzbieta Rozanska, Samer Habash, Abdelnaser Elashry, Miroslaw Sobczak, Tatsuo Kakimoto, Miroslav Strnad, Thomas Schmülling, Melissa G. Mitchum, and Florian M. W. Grundler
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12669-12674; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1503657112
Applied Biological Sciences
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  Chemically tunable mucin chimeras assembled on living cells
  Jessica R. Kramer, Bibiana Onoa, Carlos Bustamante, and Carolyn R. Bertozzi
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12574-12579; first published September 29, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1516127112
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  Mathematical framework for activity-based cancer biomarkers
  Gabriel A. Kwong, Jaideep S. Dudani, Emmanuel Carrodeguas, Eric V. Mazumdar, Seyedeh M. Zekavat, and Sangeeta N. Bhatia
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12627-12632; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1506925112
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  Glycan modulation and sulfoengineering of anti–HIV-1 monoclonal antibody PG9 in plants
  Andreas Loos, Johannes S. Gach, Thomas Hackl, Daniel Maresch, Theresa Henkel, Andreas Porodko, Duc Bui-Minh, Wolfgang Sommeregger, Gordana Wozniak-Knopp, Donald N. Forthal, Friedrich Altmann, Herta Steinkellner, and Lukas Mach
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12675-12680; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1509090112
Biochemistry
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  Local and global structural drivers for the photoactivation of the orange carotenoid protein
  Sayan Gupta, Miklos Guttman, Ryan L. Leverenz, Kulyash Zhumadilova, Emily G. Pawlowski, Christopher J. Petzold, Kelly K. Lee, Corie Y. Ralston, and Cheryl A. Kerfeld
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) E5567-E5574; first published September 18, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1512240112
  
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  Activated OCP unlocks NPQ in cyanobacteria
  - Oct 02, 2015
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  NhaA antiporter functions using 10 helices, and an additional 2 contribute to assembly/stability
  Etana Padan, Tsafi Danieli, Yael Keren, Dudu Alkoby, Gal Masrati, Turkan Haliloglu, Nir Ben-Tal, and Abraham Rimon
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) E5575-E5582; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1510964112
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  Regulation of outer kinetochore Ndc80 complex-based microtubule attachments by the central kinetochore Mis12/MIND complex
  Emily M. Kudalkar, Emily A. Scarborough, Neil T. Umbreit, Alex Zelter, Daniel R. Gestaut, Michael Riffle, Richard S. Johnson, Michael J. MacCoss, Charles L. Asbury, and Trisha N. Davis
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) E5583-E5589; first published October 1, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1513882112
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  Mechanisms of cyclic AMP/protein kinase A- and glucocorticoid-mediated apoptosis using S49 lymphoma cells as a model system
  Malik M. Keshwani, Joan R. Kanter, Yuliang Ma, Andrea Wilderman, Manjula Darshi, Paul A. Insel, and Susan S. Taylor
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12681-12686; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1516057112
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  Mechanisms of leiomodin 2-mediated regulation of actin filament in muscle cells
  Xiaorui Chen, Fengyun Ni, Elena Kondrashkina, Jianpeng Ma, and Qinghua Wang
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12687-12692; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1512464112
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  Structural and evolutionary relationships of “AT-less” type I polyketide synthase ketosynthases
  Jeremy R. Lohman, Ming Ma, Jerzy Osipiuk, Boguslaw Nocek, Youngchang Kim, Changsoo Chang, Marianne Cuff, Jamey Mack, Lance Bigelow, Hui Li, Michael Endres, Gyorgy Babnigg, Andrzej Joachimiak, George N. Phillips Jr., and Ben Shen
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12693-12698; first published September 29, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1515460112
Cell Biology
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  Motifs of VDAC2 required for mitochondrial Bak import and tBid-induced apoptosis
  Shamim Naghdi, Péter Várnai, and György Hajnóczky
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) E5590-E5599; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1510574112
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  Asymmetric nanotopography biases cytoskeletal dynamics and promotes unidirectional cell guidance
  Xiaoyu Sun, Meghan K. Driscoll, Can Guven, Satarupa Das, Carole A. Parent, John T. Fourkas, and Wolfgang Losert
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12557-12562; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1502970112
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  Searching molecular structure databases with tandem mass spectra using CSI:FingerID
  From the Cover
  
  Kai Dührkop, Huibin Shen, Marvin Meusel, Juho Rousu, and Sebastian Böcker
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12580-12585; first published September 21, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1509788112
  
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  Illuminating the dark matter in metabolomics
  - Oct 01, 2015
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  Minimal model for collective kinetochore–microtubule dynamics
  Edward J. Banigan, Kevin K. Chiou, Edward R. Ballister, Alyssa M. Mayo, Michael A. Lampson, and Andrea J. Liu
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12699-12704; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1513512112
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  Contractility of single cardiomyocytes differentiated from pluripotent stem cells depends on physiological shape and substrate stiffness
  Alexandre J. S. Ribeiro, Yen-Sin Ang, Ji-Dong Fu, Renee N. Rivas, Tamer M. A. Mohamed, Gadryn C. Higgs, Deepak Srivastava, and Beth L. Pruitt
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12705-12710; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1508073112
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  Connectivity Map-based discovery of parbendazole reveals targetable human osteogenic pathway
  Andrea M. Brum, Jeroen van de Peppel, Cindy S. van der Leije, Marijke Schreuders-Koedam, Marco Eijken, Bram C. J. van der Eerden, and Johannes P. T. M. van Leeuwen
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12711-12716; first published September 29, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1501597112
Developmental Biology
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  Drosophila E-cadherin is required for the maintenance of ring canals anchoring to mechanically withstand tissue growth
  Nicolas Loyer, Irina Kolotuev, Mathieu Pinot, and Roland Le Borgne
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12717-12722; first published September 30, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1504455112
Ecology
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  Ecosystem carbon stocks and sequestration potential of federal lands across the conterminous United States
  Zhengxi Tan, Shuguang Liu, Terry L. Sohl, Yiping Wu, and Claudia J. Young
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12723-12728; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1512542112
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  Intermittent collective dynamics emerge from conflicting imperatives in sheep herds
  Francesco Ginelli, Fernando Peruani, Marie-Helène Pillot, Hugues Chaté, Guy Theraulaz, and Richard Bon
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12729-12734; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1503749112
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  Enhanced precipitation variability decreases grass- and increases shrub-productivity
  Laureano A. Gherardi and Osvaldo E. Sala
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12735-12740; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1506433112
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  Strong upslope shifts in Chimborazo's vegetation over two centuries since Humboldt
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  Naia Morueta-Holme, Kristine Engemann, Pablo Sandoval-Acuña, Jeremy D. Jonas, R. Max Segnitz, and Jens-Christian Svenning
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12741-12745; first published September 14, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1509938112
  
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  Land-use intensification and species-loss risk
  - Oct 27, 2015
  
  Upward vegetation shifts are robust
  - Jan 19, 2016
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  Global biogeography of human infectious diseases
  Kris A. Murray, Nicholas Preston, Toph Allen, Carlos Zambrana-Torrelio, Parviez R. Hosseini, and Peter Daszak
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12746-12751; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1507442112
  
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  Partitioning beta diversity is not controversial
  - Dec 18, 2015
Evolution
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  Chemical, experimental, and morphological evidence for diagenetically altered melanin in exceptionally preserved fossils
  Caitlin Colleary, Andrei Dolocan, James Gardner, Suresh Singh, Michael Wuttke, Renate Rabenstein, Jörg Habersetzer, Stephan Schaal, Mulugeta Feseha, Matthew Clemens, Bonnie F. Jacobs, Ellen D. Currano, Louis L. Jacobs, Rene Lyng Sylvestersen, Sarah E. Gabbott, and Jakob Vinther
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12592-12597; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1509831112
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  Support for linguistic macrofamilies from weighted sequence alignment
  Gerhard Jäger
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12752-12757; first published September 24, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1500331112
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  Mistranslation drives the evolution of robustness in TEM-1 β-lactamase
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  Sinisa Bratulic, Florian Gerber, and Andreas Wagner
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12758-12763; first published September 21, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1510071112
  
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  Evolutionary paths of least resistance
  - Oct 01, 2015
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  Synthesis of phylogeny and taxonomy into a comprehensive tree of life
  Cody E. Hinchliff, Stephen A. Smith, James F. Allman, J. Gordon Burleigh, Ruchi Chaudhary, Lyndon M. Coghill, Keith A. Crandall, Jiabin Deng, Bryan T. Drew, Romina Gazis, Karl Gude, David S. Hibbett, Laura A. Katz, H. Dail Laughinghouse IV, Emily Jane McTavish, Peter E. Midford, Christopher L. Owen, Richard H. Ree, Jonathan A. Rees, Douglas E. Soltis, Tiffani Williams, and Karen A. Cranston
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12764-12769; first published September 18, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1423041112
Genetics
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  Low load for disruptive mutations in autism genes and their biased transmission
  Ivan Iossifov, Dan Levy, Jeremy Allen, Kenny Ye, Michael Ronemus, Yoon-ha Lee, Boris Yamrom, and Michael Wigler
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) E5600-E5607; first published September 23, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1516376112
Immunology and Inflammation
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  Regulation of calreticulin–major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I interactions by ATP
  Sanjeeva Joseph Wijeyesakere, Jessica K. Gagnon, Karunesh Arora, Charles L. Brooks III, and Malini Raghavan
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) E5608-E5617; first published September 29, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1510132112
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  Requirement of full TCR repertoire for regulatory T cells to maintain intestinal homeostasis
  Junko Nishio, Minato Baba, Koji Atarashi, Takeshi Tanoue, Hideo Negishi, Hideyuki Yanai, Sonoko Habu, Shohei Hori, Kenya Honda, and Tadatsugu Taniguchi
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12770-12775; first published September 29, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1516617112
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  New roles for DNA cytosine modification, eRNA, anchors, and superanchors in developing B cell progenitors
  Christopher Benner, Takeshi Isoda, and Cornelis Murre
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12776-12781; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1512995112
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  Generation of Th17 cells in response to intranasal infection requires TGF-β1 from dendritic cells and IL-6 from CD301b⁺ dendritic cells
  Jonathan L. Linehan, Thamotharampillai Dileepan, Sakeen W. Kashem, Daniel H. Kaplan, Patrick Cleary, and Marc K. Jenkins
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12782-12787; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1513532112
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  CD8 T-cell recognition of acquired alloantigen promotes acute allograft rejection
  Simon J. F. Harper, Jason M. Ali, Elizabeth Wlodek, Marg C. Negus, Ines G. Harper, Manu Chhabra, M. Saeed Qureshi, Mekhola Mallik, Eleanor Bolton, J. Andrew Bradley, and Gavin J. Pettigrew
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12788-12793; first published September 29, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1513533112
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  Mutational analysis of Kaposica reveals that bridging of MG2 and CUB domains of target protein is crucial for the cofactor activity of RCA proteins
  Avneesh Kumar Gautam, Yogesh Panse, Payel Ghosh, Malik Johid Reza, Jayati Mullick, and Arvind Sahu
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12794-12799; first published September 29, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1506449112
Medical Sciences
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  STIM1–Ca²⁺ signaling modulates automaticity of the mouse sinoatrial node
  Hengtao Zhang, Albert Y. Sun, Jong J. Kim, Victoria Graham, Elizabeth A. Finch, Igor Nepliouev, Guiling Zhao, Tianyu Li, W. J. Lederer, Jonathan A. Stiber, Geoffrey S. Pitt, Nenad Bursac, and Paul B. Rosenberg
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) E5618-E5627; first published September 30, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1503847112
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  TMEM16F is required for phosphatidylserine exposure and microparticle release in activated mouse platelets
  Toshihiro Fujii, Asuka Sakata, Satoshi Nishimura, Koji Eto, and Shigekazu Nagata
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12800-12805; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1516594112
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  Noninvasive brain cancer imaging with a bispecific antibody fragment, generated via click chemistry
  Haiming Luo, Reinier Hernandez, Hao Hong, Stephen A. Graves, Yunan Yang, Christopher G. England, Charles P. Theuer, Robert J. Nickles, and Weibo Cai
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12806-12811; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1509667112
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  Endothelial miR-17∼92 cluster negatively regulates arteriogenesis via miRNA-19 repression of WNT signaling
  Shira Landskroner-Eiger, Cong Qiu, Paola Perrotta, Mauro Siragusa, Monica Y. Lee, Victoria Ulrich, Amelia K. Luciano, Zhen W. Zhuang, Federico Corti, Michael Simons, Rusty L. Montgomery, Dianqing Wu, Jun Yu, and William C. Sessa
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12812-12817; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1507094112
Microbiology
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  Arun K. Haldar, Clémence Foltz, Ryan Finethy, Anthony S. Piro, Eric M. Feeley, Danielle M. Pilla-Moffett, Masaki Komatsu, Eva-Maria Frickel, and Jörn Coers
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) E5628-E5637; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1515966112
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  Dynamic ubiquitination drives herpesvirus neuroinvasion
  Nicholas J. Huffmaster, Patricia J. Sollars, Alexsia L. Richards, Gary E. Pickard, and Gregory A. Smith
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12818-12823; first published September 25, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1512559112
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  Global transcriptional repression: An initial and essential step for Plasmodium sexual development
  Masao Yuda, Shiroh Iwanaga, Izumi Kaneko, and Tomomi Kato
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12824-12829; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1504389112
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  Placebo analgesia and its opioidergic regulation suggest that empathy for pain is grounded in self pain
  Markus Rütgen, Eva-Maria Seidel, Giorgia Silani, Igor Riečanský, Allan Hummer, Christian Windischberger, Predrag Petrovic, and Claus Lamm
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) E5638-E5646; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1511269112
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  Extent of hippocampal atrophy predicts degree of deficit in recall
  Eva Zita Patai, David G. Gadian, Janine M. Cooper, Anna M. Dzieciol, Mortimer Mishkin, and Faraneh Vargha-Khadem
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12830-12833; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1511904112
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  Modeling the effect of locus coeruleus firing on cortical state dynamics and single-trial sensory processing
  Houman Safaai, Ricardo Neves, Oxana Eschenko, Nikos K. Logothetis, and Stefano Panzeri
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12834-12839; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1516539112
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  Neurotransmission plays contrasting roles in the maturation of inhibitory synapses on axons and dendrites of retinal bipolar cells
  Mrinalini Hoon, Raunak Sinha, Haruhisa Okawa, Sachihiro C. Suzuki, Arlene A. Hirano, Nicholas Brecha, Fred Rieke, and Rachel O. L. Wong
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12840-12845; first published September 29, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1510483112
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  Extinction reverses olfactory fear-conditioned increases in neuron number and glomerular size
  Filomene G. Morrison, Brian G. Dias, and Kerry J. Ressler
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12846-12851; first published September 29, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1505068112
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  Metabotropic glutamate receptor signaling is required for NMDA receptor-dependent ocular dominance plasticity and LTD in visual cortex
  Michael S. Sidorov, Eitan S. Kaplan, Emily K. Osterweil, Lothar Lindemann, and Mark F. Bear
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12852-12857; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1512878112
Physiology
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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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  Irving L. M. H. Aye, Fredrick J. Rosario, Theresa L. Powell, and Thomas Jansson
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12858-12863; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1515484112
  
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  Maternal obesity and fetal/placental weight ratio
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  A new therapeutic effect of simvastatin revealed by functional improvement in muscular dystrophy
  Nicholas P. Whitehead, Min Jeong Kim, Kenneth L. Bible, Marvin E. Adams, and Stanley C. Froehner
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12864-12869; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1509536112
Plant Biology
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  The TWD40-2 protein and the AP2 complex cooperate in the clathrin-mediated endocytosis of cellulose synthase to regulate cellulose biosynthesis
  Logan Bashline, Shundai Li, Xiaoyu Zhu, and Ying Gu
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12870-12875; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1509292112
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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
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12876-12881; first published September 30, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1515513112
Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
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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
  
  PNAS October 13, 2015 112 (41) 12882-12886; first published September 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1508345112
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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
Systems Biology
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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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