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January 21, 2020; vol. 117 no. 3

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    In This Issue
    PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1237-1239; https://doi.org/10.1073/iti0320117

Inner Workings

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    Inner Workings: A massive star dies without a bang, revealing the sensitive nature of supernovae
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    Ken Croswell
    PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1240-1242; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1920319116

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    QnAs with Sangeeta N. Bhatia
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    Profile of Mary Lou Guerinot
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    PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1246-1248; first published January 13, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1921933117

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    Chronic well leakage probability relative to basin and fluid characteristics
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    PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1249-1251; first published December 3, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1919199116

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    • A portrait of wellbore leakage in northeastern British Columbia, Canada
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    The Australasian tektite source crater: Found at last?
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    Linking calcium signaling and mitochondrial function in fungal drug resistance
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    Further wet-taro evidence from Polynesia’s southernmost Neolithic production margins
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    Reply to Barber: Marginal evidence for taro production in northern New Zealand between 1200 and 1500 CE
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    Reply to Knox and Mummolo and Schimmack and Carlsson: Controlling for crime and population rates
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    • Officer characteristics and racial disparities in fatal officer-involved shootings
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      Neta Rahimi, Shari Carmon, Inna Averbukh, Farzaneh Khajouei, Saurabh Sinha, Eyal D. Schejter, Naama Barkai, and Ben-Zion Shilo
      PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1552-1558; first published January 3, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1918268117
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      Geographically divergent evolutionary and ecological legacies shape mammal biodiversity in the global tropics and subtropics
      John Rowan, Lydia Beaudrot, Janet Franklin, Kaye E. Reed, Irene E. Smail, Andrew Zamora, and Jason M. Kamilar
      PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1559-1565; first published December 16, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1910489116

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      • Geographically divergent evolutionary and ecological legacies shape mammal biodiversity in the global tropics and subtropics
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        - Jan 03, 2020
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      Infrared optical and thermal properties of microstructures in butterfly wings
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      PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1566-1572; first published January 9, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1906356117
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      Land-use history impacts functional diversity across multiple trophic groups
      Gaëtane Le Provost, Isabelle Badenhausser, Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Yann Clough, Laura Henckel, Cyrille Violle, Vincent Bretagnolle, Marilyn Roncoroni, Peter Manning, and Nicolas Gross
      PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1573-1579; first published January 6, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1910023117
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      Scaling the risk landscape drives optimal life-history strategies and the evolution of grazing
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      Uttam Bhat, Christopher P. Kempes, and Justin D. Yeakel
      PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1580-1586; first published December 17, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1907998117

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      • Scaling the risk landscape drives optimal life-history strategies and the evolution of grazing
        - Dec 17, 2019
      • Life-history models reconstruct mammalian evolution
        - Jan 08, 2020
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      Recovery of critically endangered Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus) in the Cayman Islands following targeted conservation actions
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      Lynn Waterhouse, Scott A. Heppell, Christy V. Pattengill-Semmens, Croy McCoy, Phillippe Bush, Bradley C. Johnson, and Brice X. Semmens
      PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1587-1595; first published January 6, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1917132117

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      • Recovery of critically endangered Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus) in the Cayman Islands following targeted conservation actions
        - Jan 06, 2020
      • Island of hope for the threatened Nassau grouper
        - Jan 22, 2020
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      High productivity in hybrid-poplar plantations without isoprene emission to the atmosphere
      Russell K. Monson, Barbro Winkler, Todd N. Rosenstiel, Katja Block, Juliane Merl-Pham, Steven H. Strauss, Kori Ault, Jason Maxfield, David J. P. Moore, Nicole A. Trahan, Amberly A. Neice, Ian Shiach, Greg A. Barron-Gafford, Peter Ibsen, Joel T. McCorkel, Jörg Bernhardt, and Joerg-Peter Schnitzler
      PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1596-1605; first published January 6, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1912327117
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      Biophysical principles of choanoflagellate self-organization
      Ben T. Larson, Teresa Ruiz-Herrero, Stacey Lee, Sanjay Kumar, L. Mahadevan, and Nicole King
      PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1303-1311; first published January 2, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1909447117
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      A compartment size-dependent selective threshold limits mutation accumulation in hierarchical tissues
      Dániel Grajzel, Imre Derényi, and Gergely J. Szöllősi
      PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1606-1611; first published January 6, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1913104117
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      Fin ray patterns at the fin-to-limb transition
      Thomas A. Stewart, Justin B. Lemberg, Natalia K. Taft, Ihna Yoo, Edward B. Daeschler, and Neil H. Shubin
      PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1612-1620; first published December 30, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915983117
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      Cystic fibrosis carriers are at increased risk for a wide range of cystic fibrosis-related conditions
      Aaron C. Miller, Alejandro P. Comellas, Douglas B. Hornick, David A. Stoltz, Joseph E. Cavanaugh, Alicia K. Gerke, Michael J. Welsh, Joseph Zabner, and Philip M. Polgreen
      PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1621-1627; first published December 27, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1914912117

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      • Cystic fibrosis carriers are at increased risk for a wide range of cystic fibrosis-related conditions
        - Dec 27, 2019
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      Large-scale contractions of Friedreich’s ataxia GAA repeats in yeast occur during DNA replication due to their triplex-forming ability
      Alexandra N. Khristich, Jillian F. Armenia, Robert M. Matera, Anna A. Kolchinski, and Sergei M. Mirkin
      PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1628-1637; first published January 7, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1913416117
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      Presynaptic MAST kinase controls opposing postsynaptic responses to convey stimulus valence in Caenorhabditis elegans
      Shunji Nakano, Muneki Ikeda, Yuki Tsukada, Xianfeng Fei, Takamasa Suzuki, Yusuke Niino, Rhea Ahluwalia, Ayana Sano, Rumi Kondo, Kunio Ihara, Atsushi Miyawaki, Koichi Hashimoto, Tetsuya Higashiyama, and Ikue Mori
      PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1638-1647; first published January 7, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1909240117
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      Structural insight into T cell coinhibition by PD-1H (VISTA)
      Benjamin T. Slater, Xue Han, Lieping Chen, and Yong Xiong
      PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1648-1657; first published January 9, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1908711117
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      Identification and characterization of extrachromosomal circular DNA in maternal plasma
      Sarah T. K. Sin, Peiyong Jiang, Jiaen Deng, Lu Ji, Suk Hang Cheng, Anindya Dutta, Tak Y. Leung, K. C. Allen Chan, Rossa W. K. Chiu, and Y. M. Dennis Lo
      PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1658-1665; first published January 3, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1914949117
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      High-dose ascorbic acid synergizes with anti-PD1 in a lymphoma mouse model
      Rebecca A. Luchtel, Tushar Bhagat, Kith Pradhan, William R. Jacobs Jr, Mark Levine, Amit Verma, and Niraj Shenoy
      PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1666-1677; first published January 7, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1908158117
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      Expansion, in vivo–ex vivo cycling, and genetic manipulation of primary human hepatocytes
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      PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1678-1688; first published January 8, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1919035117
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      Designing cyclic competence-stimulating peptide (CSP) analogs with pan-group quorum-sensing inhibition activity in Streptococcus pneumoniae
      Yifang Yang, Jingjun Lin, Anthony Harrington, Gabriel Cornilescu, Gee W. Lau, and Yftah Tal-Gan
      PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1689-1699; first published January 8, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915812117
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      Bile acids and ceramide overcome the entry restriction for GII.3 human norovirus replication in human intestinal enteroids
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      Mitochondrial dysfunctions trigger the calcium signaling-dependent fungal multidrug resistance
      Yeqi Li, Yuanwei Zhang, Chi Zhang, Hongchen Wang, Xiaolei Wei, Peiying Chen, and Ling Lu
      PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1711-1721; first published December 6, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1911560116

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      A promiscuous inflammasome sparks replication of a common tumor virus
      Eric M. Burton, Raphaela Goldbach-Mansky, and Sumita Bhaduri-McIntosh
      PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1722-1730; first published January 9, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1919133117
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      Robust hepatitis E virus infection and transcriptional response in human hepatocytes
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      Microglial IRF5-IRF4 regulatory axis regulates neuroinflammation after cerebral ischemia and impacts stroke outcomes
      Abdullah Al Mamun, Anjali Chauhan, Shaohua Qi, Conelius Ngwa, Yan Xu, Romana Sharmeen, Amy L. Hazen, Jun Li, Jaroslaw A. Aronowski, Louise D. McCullough, and Fudong Liu
      PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1742-1752; first published December 31, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1914742117
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      Impaired endothelium-mediated cerebrovascular reactivity promotes anxiety and respiration disorders in mice
      Jan Wenzel, Cathrin E. Hansen, Carla Bettoni, Miriam A. Vogt, Beate Lembrich, Rentsenkhand Natsagdorj, Gianna Huber, Josefine Brands, Kjestine Schmidt, Julian C. Assmann, Ines Stölting, Kathrin Saar, Jan Sedlacik, Jens Fiehler, Peter Ludewig, Michael Wegmann, Nina Feller, Marius Richter, Helge Müller-Fielitz, Thomas Walther, Gabriele M. König, Evi Kostenis, Walter Raasch, Norbert Hübner, Peter Gass, Stefan Offermanns, Cor de Wit, Carsten A. Wagner, and Markus Schwaninger
      PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1753-1761; first published January 2, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1907467117
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      NK cells clear α-synuclein and the depletion of NK cells exacerbates synuclein pathology in a mouse model of α-synucleinopathy
      Rachael H. Earls, Kelly B. Menees, Jaegwon Chung, Claire-Anne Gutekunst, Hyun Joon Lee, Manuel G. Hazim, Balázs Rada, Levi B. Wood, and Jae-Kyung Lee
      PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1762-1771; first published January 3, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1909110117
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      Internal fluid pressure influences muscle contractile force
      David A. Sleboda and Thomas J. Roberts
      PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1772-1778; first published December 26, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1914433117

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      • Internal fluid pressure influences muscle contractile force
        - Dec 26, 2019
      • Muscle force is modulated by internal pressure
        - Jan 08, 2020
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      Specialized stellate cells offer a privileged route for rapid water flux in Drosophila renal tubule
      Pablo Cabrero, Selim Terhzaz, Anthony J. Dornan, Saurav Ghimire, Heather L. Holmes, Daniel R. Turin, Michael F. Romero, Shireen A. Davies, and Julian A. T. Dow
      PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1779-1787; first published January 6, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915943117
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      Cryo-EM structures of a lipid-sensitive pentameric ligand-gated ion channel embedded in a phosphatidylcholine-only bilayer
      Pramod Kumar, Yuhang Wang, Zhening Zhang, Zhiyu Zhao, Gisela D. Cymes, Emad Tajkhorshid, and Claudio Grosman
      PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1788-1798; first published January 7, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1906823117
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      The maize heterotrimeric G protein β subunit controls shoot meristem development and immune responses
      Qingyu Wu, Fang Xu, Lei Liu, Si Nian Char, Yezhang Ding, Byoung Il Je, Eric Schmelz, Bing Yang, and David Jackson
      PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1799-1805; first published December 18, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1917577116

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      • The maize heterotrimeric G protein β subunit controls shoot meristem development and immune responses
        - Dec 18, 2019
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        - Jan 14, 2020
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      The rhizobial autotransporter determines the symbiotic nitrogen fixation activity of Lotus japonicus in a host-specific manner
      Yoshikazu Shimoda, Yuki Nishigaya, Hiroko Yamaya-Ito, Noritoshi Inagaki, Yosuke Umehara, Hideki Hirakawa, Shusei Sato, Toshimasa Yamazaki, and Makoto Hayashi
      PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1806-1815; first published January 3, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1913349117

Corrections

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    Correction for Perkins, Core Concept: Albedo is a simple concept that plays complicated roles in climate and astronomy
    PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1816; first published January 13, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1922493117
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    Correction for Mann, Core Concept: To improve weather and climate models, researchers are chasing atmospheric gravity waves
    PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1817; first published January 13, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1922468117
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    Correction for Porter et al., Epithelial to mesenchymal plasticity and differential response to therapies in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
    PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1818; first published January 13, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1922469117
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    Correction for Hu et al., Structural bases for F plasmid conjugation and F pilus biogenesis in Escherichia coli
    PNAS January 21, 2020 117 (3) 1819; first published January 13, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1922471117
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