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March 29, 2016; vol. 113 no. 13

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    In This Issue
    PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) 3407-3409; https://doi.org/10.1073/iti1316113

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    Polygyny and child health revisited
    Matthias Rieger and Natascha Wagner
    PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) E1769-E1770; first published March 2, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1600882113
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    Reply to Rieger and Wagner: Context matters when studying purportedly harmful cultural practices
    David W. Lawson, Susan James, Esther Ngadaya, Bernard Ngowi, Sayoki G. M. Mfinanga, and Monique Borgerhoff Mulder
    PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) E1771-E1772; first published March 2, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1601420113

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    • Polygynous marriage and child health in Tanzania
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    Changing fisheries productivity and food security
    Cody S. Szuwalski
    PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) E1773-E1774; first published March 8, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1600641113
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    Reply to Szuwalski: Recognizing ecological income inequality in the ocean
    Gregory L. Britten, Michael Dowd, and Boris Worm
    PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) E1775-E1776; first published March 8, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1600793113

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    • Global change in fish recruitment
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    Opinion: A new paradigm for regulating genetically engineered animals that are used as food
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    J. D. Murray and E. A. Maga
    PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) 3410-3413; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1602474113

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    Alfred Gilman: Intrepid, committed scientist
    Henry R. Bourne
    PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) 3414-3416; first published March 21, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1602386113

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    A role for iron deficiency in dopaminergic neurodegeneration
    Yvette Y. Yien and Barry H. Paw
    PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) 3417-3418; first published March 16, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1601976113

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    • Transferrin receptor 1 and neurodegeneration
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    Drilling and modeling studies expose Antarctica’s Miocene secrets
    Amelia E. Shevenell
    PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) 3419-3421; first published March 17, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1601789113

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    • Dynamic early to mid-Miocene Antarctic ice sheet
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    Tuning in by tuning out distractions
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    PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) 3422-3423; first published March 17, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1602037113

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    PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) 3424-3427; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.ss11313

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      Ultrahigh-pressure polyamorphism in GeO2 glass with coordination number >6
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      PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) 3436-3441; first published March 14, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1524304113
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      Breaking the diffraction limit of light-sheet fluorescence microscopy by RESOLFT
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      Patrick Hoyer, Gustavo de Medeiros, Bálint Balázs, Nils Norlin, Christina Besir, Janina Hanne, Hans-Georg Kräusslich, Johann Engelhardt, Steffen J. Sahl, Stefan W. Hell, and Lars Hufnagel
      PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) 3442-3446; first published March 16, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1522292113
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      Snapshot of sequential SNARE assembling states between membranes shows that N-terminal transient assembly initializes fusion
      Yong Jian Wang, Feng Li, Nicolas Rodriguez, Xavier Lafosse, Christine Gourier, Eric Perez, and Frederic Pincet
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      PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) 3551-3556; first published March 14, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1522130113

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      Antarctic ice sheet sensitivity to atmospheric CO2 variations in the early to mid-Miocene
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      PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) 3453-3458; first published February 22, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1516030113

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      PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) 3476-3481; first published March 14, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1516271113
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      Infants ask for help when they know they don’t know
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      PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) 3492-3496; first published March 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1515129113

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      PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) 3497-3502; first published March 14, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1516139113
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      Stability of the human polymerase δ holoenzyme and its implications in lagging strand DNA synthesis
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      PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) E1777-E1786; first published March 14, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1523653113
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      PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) 3503-3508; first published March 14, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1525580113
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      PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) 3515-3520; first published March 14, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1601691113
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      PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) 3521-3526; first published March 15, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1522907113
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      PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) 3597-3602; first published March 14, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1520727113
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      Exploring the surfaceome of Ewing sarcoma identifies a new and unique therapeutic target
      Jennifer Town, Helio Pais, Sally Harrison, Lucy F. Stead, Carole Bataille, Wilawan Bunjobpol, Jing Zhang, and Terence H. Rabbitts
      PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) 3603-3608; first published March 15, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1521251113
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      Spironolactone blocks Epstein–Barr virus production by inhibiting EBV SM protein function
      Dinesh Verma, Jacob Thompson, and Sankar Swaminathan
      PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) 3609-3614; first published March 14, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1523686113
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      PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) E1907-E1916; first published March 16, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1523168113
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      Morgan Beeby, Deborah A. Ribardo, Caitlin A. Brennan, Edward G. Ruby, Grant J. Jensen, and David R. Hendrixson
      PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) E1917-E1926; first published March 14, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1518952113
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      Recombinant thiopeptides containing noncanonical amino acids
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      Michael C. W. Chan, Denise I. T. Kuok, Connie Y. H. Leung, Kenrie P. Y. Hui, Sophie A. Valkenburg, Eric H. Y. Lau, John M. Nicholls, Xiaohui Fang, Yi Guan, Jae W. Lee, Renee W. Y. Chan, Robert G. Webster, Michael A. Matthay, and J. S. Malik Peiris
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      Bacteroides fragilis type VI secretion systems use novel effector and immunity proteins to antagonize human gut Bacteroidales species
      Maria Chatzidaki-Livanis, Naama Geva-Zatorsky, and Laurie E. Comstock
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      Insight into the flagella type III export revealed by the complex structure of the type III ATPase and its regulator
      Katsumi Imada, Tohru Minamino, Yumiko Uchida, Miki Kinoshita, and Keiichi Namba
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      Phasic, suprathreshold excitation and sustained inhibition underlie neuronal selectivity for short-duration sounds
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      Four-dimensional maps of the human somatosensory system
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      New inducible genetic method reveals critical roles of GABA in the control of feeding and metabolism
      Fantao Meng, Yong Han, Dollada Srisai, Valery Belakhov, Monica Farias, Yong Xu, Richard D. Palmiter, Timor Baasov, and Qi Wu
      PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) 3645-3650; first published March 14, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1602049113
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      Temporally chimeric mice reveal flexibility of circadian period-setting in the suprachiasmatic nucleus
      Nicola J. Smyllie, Johanna E. Chesham, Ryan Hamnett, Elizabeth S. Maywood, and Michael H. Hastings
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      Qian Ren, Min Ma, Tamaki Ishima, Christophe Morisseau, Jun Yang, Karen M. Wagner, Ji-chun Zhang, Chun Yang, Wei Yao, Chao Dong, Mei Han, Bruce D. Hammock, and Kenji Hashimoto
      PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) E1944-E1952; first published March 14, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1601532113
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      Truncated mu opioid GPCR variant involvement in opioid-dependent and opioid-independent pain modulatory systems within the CNS
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      PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) 3663-3668; first published March 14, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1523894113
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      Identification and characterization of influenza variants resistant to a viral endonuclease inhibitor
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      Biphasic regulation of InsP3 receptor gating by dual Ca2+ release channel BH3-like domains mediates Bcl-xL control of cell viability
      Jun Yang, Horia Vais, Wenen Gu, and J. Kevin Foskett
      PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) E1953-E1962; first published March 14, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1517935113
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      Size and speed of the working stroke of cardiac myosin in situ
      Marco Caremani, Francesca Pinzauti, Massimo Reconditi, Gabriella Piazzesi, Ger J. M. Stienen, Vincenzo Lombardi, and Marco Linari
      PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) 3675-3680; first published March 16, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1525057113
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      Carnosic acid biosynthesis elucidated by a synthetic biology platform
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      PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) 3681-3686; first published March 14, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1523787113
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      Cytonuclear interactions affect adaptive traits of the annual plant Arabidopsis thaliana in the field
      Fabrice Roux, Tristan Mary-Huard, Elise Barillot, Estelle Wenes, Lucy Botran, Stéphanie Durand, Romain Villoutreix, Marie-Laure Martin-Magniette, Christine Camilleri, and Françoise Budar
      PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) 3687-3692; first published March 15, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1520687113
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      Inability to suppress salient distractors predicts low visual working memory capacity
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      John M. Gaspar, Gregory J. Christie, David J. Prime, Pierre Jolicœur, and John J. McDonald
      PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) 3693-3698; first published February 22, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1523471113

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    Correction for Roberts et al., Continuity of mammalian fauna over the last 200,000 y in the Indian subcontinent
    PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) E1963; first published March 21, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1603262113
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    Correction for Rodrigues et al., Biophysical principles predict fitness landscapes of drug resistance
    PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) E1964; first published March 21, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1603613113
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