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This Week in PNAS

This Week in PNAS:
In This Issue
PNAS 2008 105:3171-3172; doi:10.1073/iti0908105

Commentaries

Commentary:
- Michael R. Norman
Modulated pairs in superconducting cuprates
PNAS 2008 105:3173-3174; published online before print February 27, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0800433105
- See companion article on page 3203 in issue 9 of volume 105
Commentary:
- Stephen Shennan
Canoes and cultural evolution
PNAS 2008 105:3175-3176; published online before print February 27, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0800666105
- See companion article on page 3416 in issue 9 of volume 105
Commentary:
- Jonathan P. Stoye
- and Melvyn W. Yap
Chance favors a prepared genome
PNAS 2008 105:3177-3178; published online before print February 25, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0800667105
- See companion article on page 3557 in issue 9 of volume 105
- See companion article on page 3569 in issue 9 of volume 105
- See companion article on page 3563 in issue 9 of volume 105

Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

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Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Z. V. Guo
- and L. Mahadevan
Limbless undulatory propulsion on land
PNAS 2008 105:3179-3184; published online before print February 28, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705442105

Chemistry

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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- Lorna Dougan,
- Gang Feng,
- Hui Lu,
- and Julio M. Fernandez
Solvent molecules bridge the mechanical unfolding transition state of a protein
PNAS 2008 105:3185-3190; published online before print February 27, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706075105

Engineering

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Physical Sciences - Engineering - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Max Chabert
- and Jean-Louis Viovy
Microfluidic high-throughput encapsulation and hydrodynamic self-sorting of single cells
PNAS 2008 105:3191-3196; published online before print March 3, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0708321105
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Physical Sciences - Engineering - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Amit Agrawal,
- Rajesh Deo,
- Geoffrey D. Wang,
- May D. Wang,
- and Shuming Nie
Nanometer-scale mapping and single-molecule detection with color-coded nanoparticle probes
PNAS 2008 105:3298-3303; published online before print February 27, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0712351105
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Geology

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Physical Sciences - Geology:
- Kathleen A. McFadden,
- Jing Huang,
- Xuelei Chu,
- Ganqing Jiang,
- Alan J. Kaufman,
- Chuanming Zhou,
- Xunlai Yuan,
- and Shuhai Xiao
Pulsed oxidation and biological evolution in the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation
PNAS 2008 105:3197-3202; published online before print February 25, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0708336105

Physics

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Physical Sciences - Physics:
- J. A. Slezak,
- Jinho Lee,
- M. Wang,
- K. McElroy,
- K. Fujita,
- B. M. Andersen,
- P. J. Hirschfeld,
- H. Eisaki,
- S. Uchida,
- and J. C. Davis
From the Cover: Imaging the impact on cuprate superconductivity of varying the interatomic distances within individual crystal unit cells
PNAS 2008 105:3203-3208; published online before print February 14, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706795105
- See commentary article on page 3173 in issue 9 of volume 105

Statistics

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Physical Sciences - Statistics - Biological Sciences - Genetics:
- Luis E. Carvalho
- and Charles E. Lawrence
Centroid estimation in discrete high-dimensional spaces with applications in biology
PNAS 2008 105:3209-3214; published online before print February 27, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0712329105
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Social Sciences

Anthropology

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Social Sciences - Anthropology - Biological Sciences - Evolution:
- Monica Uddin,
- Morris Goodman,
- Offer Erez,
- Roberto Romero,
- Guozhen Liu,
- Munirul Islam,
- Juan C. Opazo,
- Chet C. Sherwood,
- Lawrence I. Grossman,
- and Derek E. Wildman
Distinct genomic signatures of adaptation in pre- and postnatal environments during human evolution
PNAS 2008 105:3215-3220; published online before print February 27, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0712400105
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Psychology

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Social Sciences - Psychology - Biological Sciences - Neuroscience:
- A. Franklin,
- G. V. Drivonikou,
- L. Bevis,
- I. R. L. Davies,
- P. Kay,
- and T. Regier
From the Cover: Categorical perception of color is lateralized to the right hemisphere in infants, but to the left hemisphere in adults
PNAS 2008 105:3221-3225; published online before print March 3, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0712286105
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Social Sciences - Psychology - Biological Sciences - Psychology:
- Sarah Whittle,
- Marie B. H. Yap,
- Murat Yücel,
- Alex Fornito,
- Julian G. Simmons,
- Anna Barrett,
- Lisa Sheeber,
- and Nicholas B. Allen
Prefrontal and amygdala volumes are related to adolescents' affective behaviors during parent–adolescent interactions
PNAS 2008 105:3652-3657; published online before print February 25, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0709815105

FROM THE COVER

In This Issue

Modulated pairs in superconducting cuprates

Canoes and cultural evolution

Chance favors a prepared genome

Limbless undulatory propulsion on land

Solvent molecules bridge the mechanical unfolding transition state of a protein

Microfluidic high-throughput encapsulation and hydrodynamic self-sorting of single cells

Nanometer-scale mapping and single-molecule detection with color-coded nanoparticle probes

Pulsed oxidation and biological evolution in the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation

From the Cover: Imaging the impact on cuprate superconductivity of varying the interatomic distances within individual crystal unit cells

Centroid estimation in discrete high-dimensional spaces with applications in biology

Distinct genomic signatures of adaptation in pre- and postnatal environments during human evolution

From the Cover: Categorical perception of color is lateralized to the right hemisphere in infants, but to the left hemisphere in adults

Prefrontal and amygdala volumes are related to adolescents' affective behaviors during parent–adolescent interactions

Cosmogenic nuclide dating of Sahelanthropus tchadensis and Australopithecus bahrelghazali: Mio-Pliocene hominids from Chad

Engineering of mucin-type human glycoproteins in yeast cells

Two-step site selection for serine-integrase-mediated excision: DNA-directed integrase conformation and central dinucleotide proofreading

Mitochondrial deafness alleles confer misreading of the genetic code

The enzyme mechanism of nitrite reductase studied at single-molecule level

Phenylalanine-508 mediates a cytoplasmic–membrane domain contact in the CFTR 3D structure crucial to assembly and channel function

Cloning and identification of an oxytocin/vasopressin-like receptor and its ligand from insects

On the evolutionary significance and metal-binding characteristics of a monolobal transferrin from Ciona intestinalis

PDCD4 inhibits translation initiation by binding to eIF4A using both its MA3 domains

Structure of glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, an essential monotopic membrane enzyme involved in respiration and metabolism

Metal active site elasticity linked to activation of homocysteine in methionine synthases

Fine structure of the promoter–σ region 1.2 interaction

Limbless undulatory propulsion on land

Nanometer-scale mapping and single-molecule detection with color-coded nanoparticle probes

Relationship between cellular response and behavioral variability in bacterial chemotaxis

Gating at the selectivity filter in cyclic nucleotide-gated channels

Monitoring RNA transcription in real time by using surface plasmon resonance

Assessing the solvent-dependent surface area of unfolded proteins using an ensemble model

Microfluidic high-throughput encapsulation and hydrodynamic self-sorting of single cells

Yeast Pch2 promotes domainal axis organization, timely recombination progression, and arrest of defective recombinosomes during meiosis

A GATA-1-regulated microRNA locus essential for erythropoiesis

Glucocorticoids differentially regulate degradation of MyoD and Id1 by N-terminal ubiquitination to promote muscle protein catabolism

Shear stress regulates aquaporin-5 and airway epithelial barrier function

A trans-Golgi network golgin is required for the regulated secretion of TNF in activated macrophages in vivo

Association of guanine nucleotide-exchange protein BIG1 in HepG2 cell nuclei with nucleolin, U3 snoRNA, and fibrillarin

Myocardin inhibits cellular proliferation by inhibiting NF-κB(p65)-dependent cell cycle progression