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Special Feature articles are published on this page as soon as they are ready. The most recent articles appear at the top of this page. All articles are the final version of record and fully citable.
December 16, 2020
- You have accessHeading perception depends on time-varying evolution of optic flowCharlie S. Burlingham and David J. Heeger
- You have accessDecoding DMD transcriptional networks using single‐nucleus RNA sequencingDaniel J. Garry, Satyabrata Das, and Wuming Gong
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- You have accessSynaptic plasticity rules with physiological calcium levelsYanis Inglebert, Johnatan Aljadeff, Nicolas Brunel, and Dominique Debanne
- You have accessPhysical mechanisms of amyloid nucleation on fluid membranesJohannes Krausser, Tuomas P. J. Knowles, and And-ela ?ari?
- You have accessA polynomial algorithm for best-subset selection problemJunxian Zhu, Canhong Wen, Jin Zhu, Heping Zhang, and Xueqin Wang
- You have accessEvolutionary determinism and convergence associated with water-column transitions in marine fishesMelissa Rincon-Sandoval, Emanuell Duarte-Ribeiro, Aaron M. Davis, Aintzane Santaquiteria, Lily C. Hughes, Carole C. Baldwin, Luisángely Soto-Torres, Arturo Acero P., H. J. Walker Jr, Kent E. Carpenter, Marcus Sheaves, Guillermo Ortí, Dahiana Arcila, and Ricardo Betancur-R.
- You have accessNews Feature: To understand the plight of insects, entomologists look to the past
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Amy McDermott
December 15, 2020
- You have accessIs photoperiod a dominant driver of secondary growth resumption?Sarah C. Elmendorf and Ailene K. Ettinger
- You have accessReply to Elmendorf and Ettinger: Photoperiod plays a dominant and irreplaceable role in triggering secondary growth resumptionJian-Guo Huang, Filipe Campelo, Qianqian Ma, Yaling Zhang, Yves Bergeron, Annie Deslauriers, Patrick Fonti, Eryuan Liang, Harri M?kinen, Walter Oberhuber, Cyrille B. K. Rathgeber, Roberto Tognetti, Václav Treml, Bao Yang, Lihong Zhai, Jiao-Lin Zhang, Serena Antonucci, J. Julio Camarero, Katarina ?ufar, Henri E. Cuny, Martin De Luis, Alessio Giovannelli, Jo?ica Gri?ar, Andreas Gruber, Vladimír Gryc, Aylin Güney, Xiali Guo, Wei Huang, Tuula Jyske, Jakub Ka?par, Gregory King, Cornelia Krause, Audrey Lemay, Feng Liu, Fabio Lombardi, Edurne Martinez del Castillo, Hubert Morin, Cristina Nabais, Pekka N?jd, Richard L. Peters, Peter Prislan, Antonio Saracino, Irene Swidrak, Hanu? Vavr?ík, Joana Vieira, Biyun Yu, Shaokang Zhang, Qiao Zeng, Emanuele Ziaco, and Sergio Rossi
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- You have accessTranscriptional readout of neuronal activity via an engineered Ca2+-activated proteaseMateo I. Sanchez, Quynh-Anh Nguyen, Wenjing Wang, Ivan Soltesz, and Alice Y. Ting
- You have accessThe β-encapsulation cage of rearrangement hotspot (Rhs) effectors is required for type VI secretionSonya L. Donato, Christina M. Beck, Fernando Garza-Sánchez, Steven J. Jensen, Zachary C. Ruhe, David A. Cunningham, Ian Singleton, David A. Low, and Christopher S. Hayes
- You have accessTowards the molecular architecture of the peroxisomal receptor docking complexPascal Lill, Tobias Hansen, Daniel Wendscheck, Bjoern Udo Klink, Tomasz Jeziorek, Dimitrios Vismpas, Jonas Miehling, Julian Bender, Andreas Schummer, Friedel Drepper, Wolfgang Girzalsky, Bettina Warscheid, Ralf Erdmann, and Christos Gatsogiannis
- Open AccessStructure, self-assembly, and properties of a truncated reflectin variantMehran J. Umerani, Preeta Pratakshya, Atrouli Chatterjee, Juana A. Cerna Sanchez, Ho Shin Kim, Gregor Ilc, Matic Kova?i?, Christophe Magnan, Benedetta Marmiroli, Barbara Sartori, Albert L. Kwansa, Helen Orins, Andrew W. Bartlett, Erica M. Leung, Zhijing Feng, Kyle L. Naughton, Brenna Norton-Baker, Long Phan, James Long, Alex Allevato, Jessica E. Leal-Cruz, Qiyin Lin, Pierre Baldi, Sigrid Bernstorff, Janez Plavec, Yaroslava G. Yingling, and Alon A. Gorodetsky
- Open AccessVapor isotopic evidence for the worsening of winter air quality by anthropogenic combustion-derived waterMeng Xing, Weiguo Liu, Xia Li, Weijian Zhou, Qiyuan Wang, Jie Tian, Xiaofei Li, Xuexi Tie, Guohui Li, Junji Cao, Huiming Bao, and Zhisheng An
- You have accessEngineering 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase improves grain yield in heat-stressed maizeCamila Ribeiro, Tracie A. Hennen-Bierwagen, Alan M. Myers, Kenneth Cline, and A. Mark Settles
- Open AccessA 2020 view of tension-based cortical morphogenesis
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David C. Van Essen - Open AccessA modern scleractinian coral with a two-component calcite–aragonite skeletonJaros?aw Stolarski, Ismael Coronado, Jack G. Murphy, Marcelo V. Kitahara, Katarzyna Janiszewska, Maciej Mazur, Anne M. Gothmann, Anne-Sophie Bouvier, Johanna Marin-Carbonne, Michelle L. Taylor, Andrea M. Quattrini, Catherine S. McFadden, John A. Higgins, Laura F. Robinson, and Anders Meibom
December 14, 2020
- You have accessPyridoxal kinase inhibition by artemisinins down-regulates inhibitory neurotransmissionVikram Babu Kasaragod, Anabel Pacios-Michelena, Natascha Schaefer, Fang Zheng, Nicole Bader, Christian Alzheimer, Carmen Villmann, and Hermann Schindelin
- You have accessSulfated glycosaminoglycans mediate prion-like behavior of p53 aggregatesNaoyuki Iwahashi, Midori Ikezaki, Taro Nishikawa, Norihiro Namba, Takashi Ohgita, Hiroyuki Saito, Yoshito Ihara, Toshinori Shimanouchi, Kazuhiko Ino, Kenji Uchimura, and Kazuchika Nishitsuji
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