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February 04, 2020; vol. 117 no. 5

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    In This Issue
    PNAS February 4, 2020 117 (5) 2229-2231; https://doi.org/10.1073/iti0520117

Inner Workings

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    Inner Workings: A microscopic mystery at the heart of mass-coral bleaching
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    Amy McDermott
    PNAS February 4, 2020 117 (5) 2232-2235; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1921846117

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    QnAs with John Kutzbach
    Sandeep Ravindran
    PNAS February 4, 2020 117 (5) 2236-2237; first published January 27, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1922725117

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    • African climate response to orbital and glacial forcing in 140,000-y simulation with implications for early modern human environments
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    Enhancing transport by shaping barriers
    Max Innerbichler and Christoph Dellago
    PNAS February 4, 2020 117 (5) 2238-2240; first published January 14, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1921425117

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    • Optimizing Brownian escape rates by potential shaping
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    Insights into the energy landscapes of chromosome organization proteins from coevolutionary sequence variation and structural modeling
    Ronald M. Levy
    PNAS February 4, 2020 117 (5) 2241-2242; first published January 10, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1921727117

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    • Braiding topology and the energy landscape of chromosome organization proteins
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    Island of hope for the threatened Nassau grouper
    Yvonne Sadovy de Mitcheson
    PNAS February 4, 2020 117 (5) 2243-2244; first published January 22, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1922301117

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    • Recovery of critically endangered Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus) in the Cayman Islands following targeted conservation actions
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    Muscle force is modulated by internal pressure
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    PNAS February 4, 2020 117 (5) 2245-2247; first published January 8, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1921726117

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    • Internal fluid pressure influences muscle contractile force
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    On the correlation between telomere shortening rate and life span
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    Reply to Udroiu: Interesting mathematical analysis of telomere shortening rate and life span
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    An ancestral anatomical and spatial bias for visually guided behavior
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    Reply to Friedrich et al.: Both genetic and environmental factors may contribute to laterality in mesencephalic connectivity and bias
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    Subsecond total-body imaging using ultrasensitive positron emission tomography
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    PNAS February 4, 2020 117 (5) 2265-2267; first published January 21, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1917379117

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      Nanoscopy through a plasmonic nanolens
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      PNAS February 4, 2020 117 (5) 2282-2287; first published January 21, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1900015117
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      M06-SX screened-exchange density functional for chemistry and solid-state physics
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      PNAS February 4, 2020 117 (5) 2294-2301; first published January 17, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1913699117
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      PNAS February 4, 2020 117 (5) 2255-2264; first published January 21, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1917673117

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      PNAS February 4, 2020 117 (5) 2338-2346; first published January 21, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1918477117
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      • Reply to Read and Parkin: Our model correctly expresses the ethnographic nature of the cultural incest taboo and kinship structures
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      PNAS February 4, 2020 117 (5) 2412-2421; first published January 21, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1917968117
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      PNAS February 4, 2020 117 (5) 2422-2431; first published January 21, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1912897117
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    Correction to Supporting Information for Shen et al., Genetic deletion of vesicular glutamate transporter in dopamine neurons increases vulnerability to MPTP-induced neurotoxicity in mice
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