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January 09, 2018; vol. 115 no. 2

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    In This Issue
    PNAS January 9, 2018 115 (2) 229-230; https://doi.org/10.1073/iti0218115

Letters (Online Only)

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    Climate change and agricultural suicides in India
    Kamal Kumar Murari, T. Jayaraman, and Madhura Swaminathan
    PNAS January 9, 2018 115 (2) E115; first published December 29, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1714747115

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    • Flawed linking of temperature and suicide
      - Dec 29, 2017
    • Analyzing Indian farmer suicide rates
      - Dec 29, 2017
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    Unfounded assumptions in linking crop-damaging temperature and suicide in India
    Saudamini Das
    PNAS January 9, 2018 115 (2) E116; first published December 29, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1715331115

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    Analyzing Indian farmer suicide rates
    Ian Plewis
    PNAS January 9, 2018 115 (2) E117; first published December 29, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1714927115

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    Reply to Plewis, Murari et al., and Das: The suicide–temperature link in India and the evidence of an agricultural channel are robust
    Tamma A. Carleton
    PNAS January 9, 2018 115 (2) E118-E121; first published December 29, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1715454115

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    • Crop-damaging temperatures raise suicide in India
      - Jul 31, 2017
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    Note on bias from averaging repeated measurements in heritability studies
    Benjamin B. Risk and Hongtu Zhu
    PNAS January 9, 2018 115 (2) E122; first published December 29, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1719250115
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    Reply to Risk and Zhu: Mixed-effects modeling as a principled approach to heritability analysis with repeat measurements
    Tian Ge, Avram J. Holmes, Randy L. Buckner, Jordan W. Smoller, and Mert R. Sabuncu
    PNAS January 9, 2018 115 (2) E123; first published December 29, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1719882115

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    • Heritability analysis with repeat measurements
      - May 08, 2017

Inner Workings

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    Inner Workings: Fishing for artifacts beneath the waves
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    Traci Watson
    PNAS January 9, 2018 115 (2) 231-233; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1720823115

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    Fraternal birth order effect on sexual orientation explained
    Jacques Balthazart
    PNAS January 9, 2018 115 (2) 234-236; first published December 19, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1719534115

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    • Male homosexuality and maternal immune responses
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    Replication fork convergence at termination: A multistep process
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    PNAS January 9, 2018 115 (2) 237-239; first published December 19, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1719825115

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    PNAS Plus Significance Statements
    PNAS January 9, 2018 115 (2) 240-244; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.ss1152

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    Two types of aggression in human evolution
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    Richard W. Wrangham
    PNAS January 9, 2018 115 (2) 245-253; first published December 26, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1713611115

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    • Partitioning aggression
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      A mixed-scale dense convolutional neural network for image analysis
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      PNAS January 9, 2018 115 (2) 254-259; first published December 26, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1715832114
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      Interplay of structure, elasticity, and dynamics in actin-based nematic materials
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      Platelet integrins exhibit anisotropic mechanosensing and harness piconewton forces to mediate platelet aggregation
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      Chuanfei Dong, Meng Jin, Manasvi Lingam, Vladimir S. Airapetian, Yingjuan Ma, and Bart van der Holst
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      LAMOST telescope reveals that Neptunian cousins of hot Jupiters are mostly single offspring of stars that are rich in heavy elements
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      A growing microcolony can survive and support persistent propagation of virulent phages
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      Impact of an historic underground gas well blowout on the current methane chemistry in a shallow groundwater system
      Gilian Schout, Niels Hartog, S. Majid Hassanizadeh, and Jasper Griffioen
      PNAS January 9, 2018 115 (2) 296-301; first published December 26, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1711472115

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      PNAS January 9, 2018 115 (2) E144-E151; first published December 21, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1708800115

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      PNAS January 9, 2018 115 (2) 272-277; first published December 19, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1715842115
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      High-resolution structure of podovirus tail adaptor suggests repositioning of an octad motif that mediates the sequential tail assembly
      Lingfei Liang, Haiyan Zhao, Bowen An, and Liang Tang
      PNAS January 9, 2018 115 (2) 313-318; first published December 26, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1706846115
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      PNAS January 9, 2018 115 (2) 319-324; first published December 26, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1708677115
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    Correction for Singh et al., Increasing potential for intense tropical and subtropical thunderstorms under global warming
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