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May 23, 2006; 103 (21)
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FROM THE COVER
Primate gene fusion
Stem cell mutagenesis and knockout mice
Origin of European cattle
Avian vaccine with dual specificity
Amyloid plaque reduction in mice
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Dirk G. de Rooij
Rapid expansion of the spermatogonial stem cell tool box
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
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Commentary
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I. King Jordan
Evolutionary tinkering with transposable elements
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
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Commentary
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David A. Greenberg
Another weapon against amyloid
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
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Regina Nuzzo
Profile of Giorgio Parisi
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
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Physical Sciences
Applied Mathematics
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Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics
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E. Alvarez-Lacalle
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B. Dorow
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J.-P. Eckmann
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E. Moses
Hierarchical structures induce long-range dynamical correlations in written texts
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
103
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May 12, 2006
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0510673103
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Applied Physical Sciences
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Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences
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Thomas E. Angelini
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Ramin Golestanian
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Robert H. Coridan
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John C. Butler
,
Alexandre Beraud
,
Michael Krisch
,
Harald Sinn
,
Kenneth S. Schweizer
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and
Gerard C. L. Wong
Counterions between charged polymers exhibit liquid-like organization and dynamics
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
103
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May 11, 2006
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0601435103
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Chemistry
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry
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Katherine L. Gudiksen
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Irina Gitlin
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George M. Whitesides
Differentiation of proteins based on characteristic patterns of association and denaturation in solutions of SDS
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
103
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May 12, 2006
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0602816103
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry
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Teresa Head-Gordon
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Margaret E. Johnson
Tetrahedral structure or chains for liquid water
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
103
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May 12, 2006
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0510593103
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Biological Sciences - Immunology - Physical Sciences - Chemistry
:
Renuka Kadirvelraj
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Jorge Gonzalez-Outeiriño
,
B. Lachele Foley
,
Meredith L. Beckham
,
Harold J. Jennings
,
Simon Foote
,
Michael G. Ford
,
and
Robert J. Woods
Understanding the bacterial polysaccharide antigenicity of Streptococcus agalactiae versus Streptococcus pneumoniae
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
103
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May 16, 2006
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0602815103
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Physics
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Physical Sciences - Physics
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Halvor M. Nilsen
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Gordon Baym
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C. J. Pethick
Velocity of vortices in inhomogeneous Bose–Einstein condensates
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
103
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May 15, 2006
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0602541103
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Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics
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Horia I. Petrache
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Thomas Zemb
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Luc Belloni
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and
V. Adrian Parsegian
Salt screening and specific ion adsorption determine neutral-lipid membrane interactions
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
103
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Statistics
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Physical Sciences - Statistics
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Giorgio Parisi
Inaugural Article: Spin glasses and fragile glasses: Statics, dynamics, and complexity
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
103
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May 11, 2006
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0601120103
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Physical Sciences - Statistics
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Ning Sun
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Raymond J. Carroll
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and
Hongyu Zhao
Bayesian error analysis model for reconstructing transcriptional regulatory networks
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
103
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May 15, 2006
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0600164103
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Biological Sciences
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Biological Sciences - Agricultural Sciences
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Z. K. Li
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M. Arif
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D. B. Zhong
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B. Y. Fu
,
J. L. Xu
,
J. Domingo-Rey
,
J. Ali
,
C. H. M. Vijayakumar
,
S. B. Yu
,
and
G. S. Khush
Complex genetic networks underlying the defensive system of rice ( Oryza sativa L.) to Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
103
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Biological Sciences - Agricultural Sciences
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P. Chandra Shekar
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Sandeep Goel
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S. Deepa Selvi Rani
,
D. Partha Sarathi
,
Jomini Liza Alex
,
Shashi Singh
,
and
Satish Kumar
κ-Casein-deficient mice fail to lactate
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
103
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May 12, 2006
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0601611103
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Biological Sciences - Anthropology
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George H. Perry
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Joelle Tchinda
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Sean D. McGrath
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Junjun Zhang
,
Simon R. Picker
,
Angela M. Cáceres
,
A. John Iafrate
,
Chris Tyler-Smith
,
Stephen W. Scherer
,
Evan E. Eichler
,
Anne C. Stone
,
and
Charles Lee
Hotspots for copy number variation in chimpanzees and humans
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
103
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May 15, 2006
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0602318103
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Biological Sciences - Anthropology
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Elise M. S. Belle
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Uma Ramakrishnan
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Joanna L. Mountain
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and
Guido Barbujani
Serial coalescent simulations suggest a weak genealogical relationship between Etruscans and modern Tuscans
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
103
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Mito Kanatsu-Shinohara
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Masahito Ikawa
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Masanori Takehashi
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Narumi Ogonuki
,
Hiromi Miki
,
Kimiko Inoue
,
Yasuhiro Kazuki
,
Jiyoung Lee
,
Shinya Toyokuni
,
Mitsuo Oshimura
,
Atsuo Ogura
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and
Takashi Shinohara
From the Cover: Production of knockout mice by random or targeted mutagenesis in spermatogonial stem cells
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
103
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May 5, 2006
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0601139103
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Cory Teuscher
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Rajkumar Noubade
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Karen Spach
,
Benjamin McElvany
,
Janice Y. Bunn
,
Parley D. Fillmore
,
James F. Zachary
,
and
Elizabeth P. Blankenhorn
Evidence that the Y chromosome influences autoimmune disease in male and female mice
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
103
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0600536103
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Gabriela O. Paiva-Silva
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Christine Cruz-Oliveira
,
Ernesto S. Nakayasu
,
Clarissa M. Maya-Monteiro
,
Boris C. Dunkov
,
Hatisaburo Masuda
,
Igor C. Almeida
,
and
Pedro L. Oliveira
A heme-degradation pathway in a blood-sucking insect
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
103
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May 12, 2006
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0602224103
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Shuji Kubo
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Maria del Carmen Seleme
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Harris S. Soifer
,
José Luis Garcia Perez
,
John V. Moran
,
Haig H. Kazazian, Jr.
,
and
Noriyuki Kasahara
L1 retrotransposition in nondividing and primary human somatic cells
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
103
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May 12, 2006
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Zhefeng Guo
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David Eisenberg
Runaway domain swapping in amyloid-like fibrils of T7 endonuclease I
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
103
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Rong Chen
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John D. Neill
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Mary K. Estes
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B. V. Venkataram Prasad
X-ray structure of a native calicivirus: Structural insights into antigenic diversity and host specificity
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
103
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0600421103
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Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics
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Horia I. Petrache
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Thomas Zemb
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Luc Belloni
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V. Adrian Parsegian
Salt screening and specific ion adsorption determine neutral-lipid membrane interactions
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
103
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7982
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7987
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May 15, 2006
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Nicholas R. Guydosh
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Steven M. Block
Backsteps induced by nucleotide analogs suggest the front head of kinesin is gated by strain
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
103
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Michael Strong
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Michael R. Sawaya
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Shuishu Wang
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Martin Phillips
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Duilio Cascio
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David Eisenberg
Toward the structural genomics of complexes: Crystal structure of a PE/PPE protein complex from Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
103
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May 11, 2006
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Stuart W. Reid
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Mark C. Leake
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Jennifer H. Chandler
,
Chien-Jung Lo
,
Judith P. Armitage
,
and
Richard M. Berry
The maximum number of torque-generating units in the flagellar motor of Escherichia coli is at least 11
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
103
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Qiang Shao
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Yi Qin Gao
On the hand-over-hand mechanism of kinesin
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
103
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0602828103
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology
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Elizabeth H. Stover
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Jing Chen
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Cedric Folens
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Benjamin H. Lee
,
Nicole Mentens
,
Peter Marynen
,
Ifor R. Williams
,
D. Gary Gilliland
,
and
Jan Cools
Activation of FIP1L1-PDGFRα requires disruption of the juxtamembrane domain of PDGFRα and is FIP1L1-independent
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
103
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8083
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May 11, 2006
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0601192103
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Christian Taube
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Joshua M. Thurman
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Katsuyuki Takeda
,
Anthony Joetham
,
Nobuaki Miyahara
,
Michael C. Carroll
,
Azzeddine Dakhama
,
Patricia C. Giclas
,
V. Michael Holers
,
and
Erwin W. Gelfand
Factor B of the alternative complement pathway regulates development of airway hyperresponsiveness and inflammation
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
103
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8089
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May 15, 2006
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0602357103
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Stephanie A. Pangas
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Youngsok Choi
,
Daniel J. Ballow
,
Yangu Zhao
,
Heiner Westphal
,
Martin M. Matzuk
,
and
Aleksandar Rajkovic
Oogenesis requires germ cell-specific transcriptional regulators Sohlh1 and Lhx8
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
103
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0601083103
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Ecology
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Biological Sciences - Ecology
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Alistair S. Jump
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Josep Peñuelas
Genetic effects of chronic habitat fragmentation in a wind-pollinated tree
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
103
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May 12, 2006
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0510127103
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Biological Sciences - Evolution
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Richard Cordaux
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Swalpa Udit
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Mark A. Batzer
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Cédric Feschotte
From the Cover: Birth of a chimeric primate gene by capture of the transposase gene from a mobile element
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
103
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May 3, 2006
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0601161103
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Gregory J. Velicer
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Günter Raddatz
,
Heike Keller
,
Silvia Deiss
,
Christa Lanz
,
Iris Dinkelacker
,
and
Stephan C. Schuster
Comprehensive mutation identification in an evolved bacterial cooperator and its cheating ancestor
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
103
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8107
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8112
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May 17, 2006
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0510740103
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Albano Beja-Pereira
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David Caramelli
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Carles Lalueza-Fox
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Cristiano Vernesi
,
Nuno Ferrand
,
Antonella Casoli
,
Felix Goyache
,
Luis J. Royo
,
Serena Conti
,
Martina Lari
,
Andrea Martini
,
Lahousine Ouragh
,
Ayed Magid
,
Abdulkarim Atash
,
Attila Zsolnai
,
Paolo Boscato
,
Costas Triantaphylidis
,
Konstantoula Ploumi
,
Luca Sineo
,
Francesco Mallegni
,
Pierre Taberlet
,
Georg Erhardt
,
Lourdes Sampietro
,
Jaume Bertranpetit
,
Guido Barbujani
,
Gordon Luikart
,
and
Giorgio Bertorelle
From the Cover: The origin of European cattle: Evidence from modern and ancient DNA
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
103
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8113
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8118
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May 11, 2006
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0509210103
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Haruko Takeda
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Florian Caiment
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Maria Smit
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Samuel Hiard
,
Xavier Tordoir
,
Noelle Cockett
,
Michel Georges
,
and
Carole Charlier
The callipyge mutation enhances bidirectional long-range DLK1-GTL2 intergenic transcription in cis
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
103
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8124
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Jian-Hua Mao
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Elise F. Saunier
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John P. de Koning
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Margaret M. McKinnon
,
Mamie Nakijama Higgins
,
Kathy Nicklas
,
Hai-Tao Yang
,
Allan Balmain
,
and
Rosemary J. Akhurst
Genetic variants of Tgfb1 act as context-dependent modifiers of mouse skin tumor susceptibility
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
103
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May 15, 2006
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Keiko Ogino
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Kouji Hirota
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Seiji Matsumoto
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Tadayuki Takeda
,
Kunihiro Ohta
,
Ken-ichi Arai
,
and
Hisao Masai
Hsk1 kinase is required for induction of meiotic dsDNA breaks without involving checkpoint kinases in fission yeast
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
103
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8136
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May 12, 2006
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0602498103
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Biological Sciences - Immunology
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Zhi Chen
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Arian Laurence
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Yuka Kanno
,
Margit Pacher-Zavisin
,
Bing-Mei Zhu
,
Cristina Tato
,
Akihiko Yoshimura
,
Lothar Hennighausen
,
and
John J. O'Shea
Selective regulatory function of Socs3 in the formation of IL-17-secreting T cells
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2006
103
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May 12, 2006
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0600666103
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Hae Won Sohn
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Pavel Tolar
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Tian Jin
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