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December 16, 2020

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Heading perception depends on time-varying evolution of optic flow
Charlie S. Burlingham and David J. Heeger

PNAS first published December 16, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2022984117
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Decoding DMD transcriptional networks using single‐nucleus RNA sequencing
Daniel J. Garry, Satyabrata Das, and Wuming Gong

PNAS first published December 2, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2022205117
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Degenerative and regenerative pathways underlying Duchenne muscular dystrophy revealed by single-nucleus RNA sequencing
- Nov 04, 2020
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Synaptic plasticity rules with physiological calcium levels
Yanis Inglebert, Johnatan Aljadeff, Nicolas Brunel, and Dominique Debanne

PNAS first published December 16, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2013663117
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A non-diagonalizable pure state
Piotr Koszmider

PNAS first published December 16, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2011885117
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Physical mechanisms of amyloid nucleation on fluid membranes
Johannes Krausser, Tuomas P. J. Knowles, and And-ela ?ari?

PNAS first published December 16, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2007694117
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A polynomial algorithm for best-subset selection problem
Junxian Zhu, Canhong Wen, Jin Zhu, Heping Zhang, and Xueqin Wang

PNAS first published December 16, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2014241117
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Evolutionary determinism and convergence associated with water-column transitions in marine fishes
Melissa 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.

PNAS first published December 16, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2006511117
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News Feature: To understand the plight of insects, entomologists look to the past
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Amy McDermott

PNAS first published December 16, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2018499117

December 15, 2020

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Is photoperiod a dominant driver of secondary growth resumption?
Sarah C. Elmendorf and Ailene K. Ettinger

PNAS first published December 15, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2019411117
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Reply to Elmendorf and Ettinger: Photoperiod plays a dominant and irreplaceable role in triggering secondary growth resumption
Jian-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

PNAS first published December 15, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2019931117
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Photoperiod and temperature as dominant environmental drivers triggering secondary growth resumption in Northern Hemisphere conifers
- Aug 05, 2020
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Transcriptional readout of neuronal activity via an engineered Ca²⁺-activated protease
Mateo I. Sanchez, Quynh-Anh Nguyen, Wenjing Wang, Ivan Soltesz, and Alice Y. Ting

PNAS first published December 15, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2006521117
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The β-encapsulation cage of rearrangement hotspot (Rhs) effectors is required for type VI secretion
Sonya 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

PNAS first published December 15, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1919350117
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Towards the molecular architecture of the peroxisomal receptor docking complex
Pascal 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

PNAS first published December 15, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2009502117
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Structure, self-assembly, and properties of a truncated reflectin variant
Mehran 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

PNAS first published December 15, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2009044117
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Vapor isotopic evidence for the worsening of winter air quality by anthropogenic combustion-derived water
Meng Xing, Weiguo Liu, Xia Li, Weijian Zhou, Qiyuan Wang, Jie Tian, Xiaofei Li, Xuexi Tie, Guohui Li, Junji Cao, Huiming Bao, and Zhisheng An

PNAS first published December 15, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1922840117
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Engineering 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase improves grain yield in heat-stressed maize
Camila Ribeiro, Tracie A. Hennen-Bierwagen, Alan M. Myers, Kenneth Cline, and A. Mark Settles

PNAS first published December 15, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2010179117
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A 2020 view of tension-based cortical morphogenesis
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David C. Van Essen

PNAS first published December 15, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2016830117
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A modern scleractinian coral with a two-component calcite–aragonite skeleton
Jaros?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

PNAS first published December 15, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2013316117

December 14, 2020

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Pyridoxal kinase inhibition by artemisinins down-regulates inhibitory neurotransmission
Vikram Babu Kasaragod, Anabel Pacios-Michelena, Natascha Schaefer, Fang Zheng, Nicole Bader, Christian Alzheimer, Carmen Villmann, and Hermann Schindelin

PNAS first published December 14, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2008695117
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Sulfated glycosaminoglycans mediate prion-like behavior of p53 aggregates
Naoyuki Iwahashi, Midori Ikezaki, Taro Nishikawa, Norihiro Namba, Takashi Ohgita, Hiroyuki Saito, Yoshito Ihara, Toshinori Shimanouchi, Kazuhiko Ino, Kenji Uchimura, and Kazuchika Nishitsuji

PNAS first published December 14, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2009931117

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