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November 03, 2015; vol. 112 no. 44

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    In This Issue
    PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) 13417-13418; https://doi.org/10.1073/iti4415112

Letters (Online Only)

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    Processes affecting extinction risk in the laboratory and in nature
    J. Timothy Wootton and Catherine A. Pfister
    PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) E5903; first published October 19, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1516561112
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    Reply to Wootton and Pfister: The search for general context should include synthesis with laboratory model systems
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    PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) E5904; first published October 19, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1517210112

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    Inquiry into congruencies and trade-offs among conservation objectives requires a consistent typology of homogeneous types
    Thomas Kirchhoff
    PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) E5905; first published October 19, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1517860112
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    Reply to Kirchhoff: Homogenous and mutually exclusive conservation typologies are neither possible nor desirable
    Daniel S. Karp, Chase D. Mendenhall, Elizabeth Callaway, Luke O. Frishkoff, Peter M. Kareiva, Paul R. Ehrlich, and Gretchen C. Daily
    PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) E5906; first published October 19, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1518479112

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    • Confronting conservation values
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    Opinion: Focus on preclinical sex differences will not address women’s and men’s health disparities
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    Sarah S. Richardson, Meredith Reiches, Heather Shattuck-Heidorn, Michelle Lynne LaBonte, and Theresa Consoli
    PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) 13419-13420; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1516958112

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    Inner Workings: Taking evolution to the clinic
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    Elie Dolgin
    PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) 13421-13422; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1516954112

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    Developmental biologist Eric H. Davidson, 1937–2015
    Leroy Hood and Ellen V. Rothenberg
    PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) 13423-13425; first published October 23, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1518876112

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    Evolvability and nonevolvability of allometric slopes
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    PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) 13426-13427; first published October 23, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1517621112

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    • Complex constraints on allometry
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    Bantu history: Big advance, although with a chronological contradiction
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    PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) 13428-13429; first published October 28, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1517381112

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    Structural revelations of the human proton channel
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    PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) 13430-13431; first published October 14, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1518486112

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    Tracking Austronesian expansion into the Pacific via the paper mulberry plant
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    PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) 13432-13433; first published October 23, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1518576112

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    • Pacific paper mulberry phylogeography
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    Latent hydrocarbons from cyanobacteria
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    PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) 13434-13435; first published October 19, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1518485112

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    PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) 13436-13438; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.ss11244

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    Accelerating scientific publication in biology
    Ronald D. Vale
    PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) 13439-13446; first published October 27, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1511912112

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      Clique topology reveals intrinsic geometric structure in neural correlations
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      PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) 13455-13460; first published October 20, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1506407112
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      Emergence of system roles in normative neurodevelopment
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      PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) 13681-13686; first published October 19, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1502829112
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      Probing exoplanet clouds with optical phase curves
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      PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) 13461-13466; first published October 21, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1509135112
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      PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) 13473-13477; first published October 19, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1513012112
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      PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) 13508-13513; first published October 12, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1511186112

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      PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) 13537-13542; first published October 5, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1503205112

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      PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) 13627-13632; first published October 20, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1511448112
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      Holocentromeres in Rhynchospora are associated with genome-wide centromere-specific repeat arrays interspersed among euchromatin
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      PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) 13633-13638; first published October 21, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1512255112
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      Genetic structure in village dogs reveals a Central Asian domestication origin
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      Laura M. Shannon, Ryan H. Boyko, Marta Castelhano, Elizabeth Corey, Jessica J. Hayward, Corin McLean, Michelle E. White, Mounir Abi Said, Baddley A. Anita, Nono Ikombe Bondjengo, Jorge Calero, Ana Galov, Marius Hedimbi, Bulu Imam, Rajashree Khalap, Douglas Lally, Andrew Masta, Kyle C. Oliveira, Lucía Pérez, Julia Randall, Nguyen Minh Tam, Francisco J. Trujillo-Cornejo, Carlos Valeriano, Nathan B. Sutter, Rory J. Todhunter, Carlos D. Bustamante, and Adam R. Boyko
      PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) 13639-13644; first published October 19, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1516215112

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      Development of a diverse human T-cell repertoire despite stringent restriction of hematopoietic clonality in the thymus
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      PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) E6020-E6027; first published October 19, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1519118112
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      Maternal CD4+ T cells protect against severe congenital cytomegalovirus disease in a novel nonhuman primate model of placental cytomegalovirus transmission
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      Survival of human lymphoma cells requires B-cell receptor engagement by self-antigens
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      Ryan M. Young, Tianyi Wu, Roland Schmitz, Moez Dawood, Wenming Xiao, James D. Phelan, Weihong Xu, Laurence Menard, Eric Meffre, Wing-Chung C. Chan, Elaine S. Jaffe, Randy D. Gascoyne, Elías Campo, Andreas Rosenwald, German Ott, Jan Delabie, Lisa M. Rimsza, and Louis M. Staudt
      PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) 13447-13454; first published October 19, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1514944112
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      Beneficial effects of growth hormone-releasing hormone agonists on rat INS-1 cells and on streptozotocin-induced NOD/SCID mice
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      An intrinsic mechanism of secreted protein aging and turnover
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      Dystrophin–glycoprotein complex regulates muscle nitric oxide production through mechanoregulation of AMPK signaling
      Joanne F. Garbincius and Daniel E. Michele
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      Or Rotem, Zohar Pasternak, Eyal Shimoni, Eduard Belausov, Ziv Porat, Shmuel Pietrokovski, and Edouard Jurkevitch
      PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) E6028-E6037; first published October 20, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1515749112
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      Comprehensive analysis reveals how single nucleotides contribute to noncoding RNA function in bacterial quorum sensing
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      PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) E6038-E6047; first published October 19, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1518958112
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      A distinct pathway for tetrahymanol synthesis in bacteria
      Amy B. Banta, Jeremy H. Wei, and Paula V. Welander
      PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) 13478-13483; first published October 19, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1511482112
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      Antifungal activity improved by coproduction of cyclodextrins and anabaenolysins in Cyanobacteria
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      Topographic representations of object size and relationships with numerosity reveal generalized quantity processing in human parietal cortex
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      Bursts of beta oscillation differentiate postperformance activity in the striatum and motor cortex of monkeys performing movement tasks
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      Prenatal exposure to cannabinoids evokes long-lasting functional alterations by targeting CB1 receptors on developing cortical neurons
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      Transgenerational epigenetic programming via sperm microRNA recapitulates effects of paternal stress
      Ali B. Rodgers, Christopher P. Morgan, N. Adrian Leu, and Tracy L. Bale
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      Phosphorylation of the Cav3.2 T-type calcium channel directly regulates its gating properties
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      PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) 13705-13710; first published October 19, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1511740112
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      Synaptic circuits and their variations within different columns in the visual system of Drosophila
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      Transgenic expression of the proneural transcription factor Ascl1 in Müller glia stimulates retinal regeneration in young mice
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      PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) 13717-13722; first published October 19, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1510595112
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      SRC-2 orchestrates polygenic inputs for fine-tuning glucose homeostasis
      Tiffany Fleet, Bin Zhang, Fumin Lin, Bokai Zhu, Subhamoy Dasgupta, Erin Stashi, Bryan Tackett, Sundararajah Thevananther, Kimal I. Rajapakshe, Naomi Gonzales, Adam Dean, Jianqiang Mao, Nikolai Timchenko, Anna Malovannaya, Jun Qin, Cristian Coarfa, Francesco DeMayo, Clifford C. Dacso, Charles E. Foulds, Bert W. O’Malley, and Brian York
      PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) E6068-E6077; first published October 20, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1519073112
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      Digoxin derivatives with selectivity for the α2β3 isoform of Na,K-ATPase potently reduce intraocular pressure
      Adriana Katz, Daniel M. Tal, Dan Heller, Michael Habeck, Efrat Ben Zeev, Bilal Rabah, Yaniv Bar Kana, Arie L. Marcovich, and Steven J. D. Karlish
      PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) 13723-13728; first published October 19, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1514569112
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      CG gene body DNA methylation changes and evolution of duplicated genes in cassava
      Haifeng Wang, Getu Beyene, Jixian Zhai, Suhua Feng, Noah Fahlgren, Nigel J. Taylor, Rebecca Bart, James C. Carrington, Steven E. Jacobsen, and Israel Ausin
      PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) 13729-13734; first published October 19, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1519067112
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      The mitochondrial monothiol glutaredoxin S15 is essential for iron-sulfur protein maturation in Arabidopsis thaliana
      Anna Moseler, Isabel Aller, Stephan Wagner, Thomas Nietzel, Jonathan Przybyla-Toscano, Ulrich Mühlenhoff, Roland Lill, Carsten Berndt, Nicolas Rouhier, Markus Schwarzländer, and Andreas J. Meyer
      PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) 13735-13740; first published October 19, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1510835112

Corrections (Online Only)

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    Correction for Liu et al., Direct evidence that suspensor cells have embryogenic potential that is suppressed by the embryo proper during normal embryogenesis
    PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) E6078; first published October 26, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1519530112
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    Correction for Song et al., Resolving conflict in eutherian mammal phylogeny using phylogenomics and the multispecies coalescent model
    PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) E6079; first published October 26, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1518753112

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    Correction to Supporting Information for Jiang et al., Gene-expression analysis of hair cell regeneration in the zebrafish lateral line
    PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) E6080; first published October 19, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1518842112
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    Correction to Supporting Information for Carvalho et al., Birth of a new gene on the Y chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster
    PNAS November 3, 2015 112 (44) E6081; first published October 19, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1519463112
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