This Week in PNAS

Commentaries

  • Commentary:
    • Fred C. Dobbs

    Après le déluge: Microbial landscape of New Orleans after the hurricanes

    PNAS 2007 104:9103-9104; published ahead of print May 22, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0703191104
    • See companion article on page 9029 in issue 21 of volume 104
  • Commentary:
    • Eugene V. Koonin

    An RNA-making reactor for the origin of life

    PNAS 2007 104:9105-9106; published ahead of print May 22, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702699104
    • See companion article on page 9346 in issue 22 of volume 104
  • Commentary:
    • M. Joan Curcio
    • and Marlene Belfort

    The beginning of the end: Links between ancient retroelements and modern telomerases

    PNAS 2007 104:9107-9108; published ahead of print May 21, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0703224104
    • See companion article on page 9352 in issue 22 of volume 104
  • Commentary:
    • James J. Giovannoni

    Completing a pathway to plant vitamin C synthesis

    PNAS 2007 104:9109-9110; published ahead of print May 21, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0703222104
    • See companion article on page 9534 in issue 22 of volume 104

Profile

  • Profile:
    • H. Davis Tinsley

    Profile of Daniel L. Hartl

    PNAS 2007 104:9111-9113; published ahead of print May 22, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0703562104
    • See commentary article on page 6504 in issue 16 of volume 104

High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature

Introductory Perspective

  • High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature - Introductory Perspective:
    • Ho-kwang Mao
    • and Russell J. Hemley

    High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature: The high-pressure dimension in earth and planetary science

    PNAS 2007 104:9114-9115; published ahead of print May 22, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0703653104

Perspective

  • High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature - Perspective:
    • J. G. Liou,
    • R. Y. Zhang,
    • and W. G. Ernst

    High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature: Very high-pressure orogenic garnet peridotites

    PNAS 2007 104:9116-9121; published ahead of print May 22, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0607300104

Research Articles

  • High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Geology:
    • Yuri N. Palyanov,
    • Vladislav S. Shatsky,
    • Nikolay V. Sobolev,
    • and Alexander G. Sokol

    High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature: The role of mantle ultrapotassic fluids in diamond formation

    PNAS 2007 104:9122-9127; published ahead of print March 22, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608134104
  • High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Geology:
    • Larissa F. Dobrzhinetskaya,
    • Richard Wirth,
    • and Harry W. Green, II

    From the Cover: High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature: A look inside of diamond-forming media in deep subduction zones

    PNAS 2007 104:9128-9132; published ahead of print March 26, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0609161104
  • High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
    • Harry W. Green, II

    High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature: Shearing instabilities accompanying high-pressure phase transformations and the mechanics of deep earthquakes

    PNAS 2007 104:9133-9138; published ahead of print April 27, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608045104
  • High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
    • Fabio Cammarano
    • and Barbara Romanowicz

    High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature: Insights into the nature of the transition zone from physically constrained inversion of long-period seismic data

    PNAS 2007 104:9139-9144; published ahead of print May 2, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608075104
  • High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
    • Baosheng Li
    • and Robert C. Liebermann

    High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature: Indoor seismology by probing the Earth's interior by using sound velocity measurements at high pressures and temperatures

    PNAS 2007 104:9145-9150; published ahead of print May 7, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608609104
  • High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
    • Daoyuan Sun,
    • Eh Tan,
    • Don Helmberger,
    • and Michael Gurnis

    High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature: Seismological support for the metastable superplume model, sharp features, and phase changes within the lower mantle

    PNAS 2007 104:9151-9155; published ahead of print April 10, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608160104
  • High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
    • Marc Monnereau
    • and David A. Yuen

    High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature: Topology of the postperovskite phase transition and mantle dynamics

    PNAS 2007 104:9156-9161; published ahead of print May 3, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608480104
  • High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
    • Bin Chen,
    • Lili Gao,
    • Ken-ichi Funakoshi,
    • and Jie Li

    High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature: Thermal expansion of iron-rich alloys and implications for the Earth's core

    PNAS 2007 104:9162-9167; published ahead of print April 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610474104
  • High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
    • Eyvaz I. Isaev,
    • Natalia V. Skorodumova,
    • Rajeev Ahuja,
    • Yuri K. Vekilov,
    • and Börje Johansson

    High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature: Dynamical stability of Fe-H in the Earth's mantle and core regions

    PNAS 2007 104:9168-9171; published ahead of print May 4, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0609701104
  • High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Physics:
    • Raymond Jeanloz,
    • Peter M. Celliers,
    • Gilbert W. Collins,
    • Jon H. Eggert,
    • Kanani K. M. Lee,
    • R. Stewart McWilliams,
    • Stéphanie Brygoo,
    • and Paul Loubeyre

    High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature: Achieving high-density states through shock-wave loading of precompressed samples

    PNAS 2007 104:9172-9177; published ahead of print May 9, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608170104
  • High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
    • Geun Woo Lee,
    • William J. Evans,
    • and Choong-Shik Yoo

    High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature: Dynamic pressure-induced dendritic and shock crystal growth of ice VI

    PNAS 2007 104:9178-9181; published ahead of print February 12, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0609390104
  • High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
    • Yingwei Fei,
    • Angele Ricolleau,
    • Mark Frank,
    • Kenji Mibe,
    • Guoyin Shen,
    • and Vitali Prakapenka

    High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature: Toward an internally consistent pressure scale

    PNAS 2007 104:9182-9186; published ahead of print May 2, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0609013104
  • High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
    • Alexandra Navrotsky,
    • Maria Dorogova,
    • Frances Hellman,
    • David W. Cooke,
    • Barry L. Zink,
    • Charles E. Lesher,
    • Juliana Boerio-Goates,
    • Brian F. Woodfield,
    • and Brian Lang

    High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature: Application of calorimetry on a chip to high-pressure materials

    PNAS 2007 104:9187-9191; published ahead of print May 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608165104
  • High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
    • Anne M. Hofmeister

    High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature: Pressure dependence of thermal transport properties

    PNAS 2007 104:9192-9197; published ahead of print February 13, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610734104

Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics - Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Shannon C. Wieland,
    • John S. Brownstein,
    • Bonnie Berger,
    • and Kenneth D. Mandl

    Density-equalizing Euclidean minimum spanning trees for the detection of all disease cluster shapes

    PNAS 2007 104:9404-9409; published ahead of print May 22, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0609457104

Applied Physical Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
    • Yael Maguire,
    • Isaac L. Chuang,
    • Shuguang Zhang,
    • and Neil Gershenfeld

    Ultra-small-sample molecular structure detection using microslot waveguide nuclear spin resonance

    PNAS 2007 104:9198-9203; published ahead of print May 15, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0703001104
    Open Access Article

Chemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Xucun Ma,
    • Peng Jiang,
    • Yun Qi,
    • Jinfeng Jia,
    • Yu Yang,
    • Wenhui Duan,
    • Wei-Xue Li,
    • Xinhe Bao,
    • S. B. Zhang,
    • and Qi-Kun Xue

    Experimental observation of quantum oscillation of surface chemical reactivities

    PNAS 2007 104:9204-9208; published ahead of print May 21, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0611024104
    Open Access Article
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Elena Stolyarova,
    • Kwang Taeg Rim,
    • Sunmin Ryu,
    • Janina Maultzsch,
    • Philip Kim,
    • Louis E. Brus,
    • Tony F. Heinz,
    • Mark S. Hybertsen,
    • and George W. Flynn

    High-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy imaging of mesoscopic graphene sheets on an insulating surface

    PNAS 2007 104:9209-9212; published ahead of print May 21, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0703337104
    Open Access Article

Engineering

  • Physical Sciences - Engineering - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • J. P. Mills,
    • M. Diez-Silva,
    • D. J. Quinn,
    • M. Dao,
    • M. J. Lang,
    • K. S. W. Tan,
    • C. T. Lim,
    • G. Milon,
    • P. H. David,
    • O. Mercereau-Puijalon,
    • S. Bonnefoy,
    • and S. Suresh

    Effect of plasmodial RESA protein on deformability of human red blood cells harboring Plasmodium falciparum

    PNAS 2007 104:9213-9217; published ahead of print May 21, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0703433104
    Open Access Article

Geology

  • High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Geology:
    • Yuri N. Palyanov,
    • Vladislav S. Shatsky,
    • Nikolay V. Sobolev,
    • and Alexander G. Sokol

    High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature: The role of mantle ultrapotassic fluids in diamond formation

    PNAS 2007 104:9122-9127; published ahead of print March 22, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608134104
  • High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Geology:
    • Larissa F. Dobrzhinetskaya,
    • Richard Wirth,
    • and Harry W. Green, II

    From the Cover: High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature: A look inside of diamond-forming media in deep subduction zones

    PNAS 2007 104:9128-9132; published ahead of print March 26, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0609161104
  • Physical Sciences - Geology - Social Sciences - Anthropology:
    • Nick Marriner,
    • Christophe Morhange,
    • and Samuel Meulé

    Holocene morphogenesis of Alexander the Great's isthmus at Tyre in Lebanon

    PNAS 2007 104:9218-9223; published ahead of print May 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0611325104
  • Physical Sciences - Geology - Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Philipp Baaske,
    • Franz M. Weinert,
    • Stefan Duhr,
    • Kono H. Lemke,
    • Michael J. Russell,
    • and Dieter Braun

    From the Cover: Extreme accumulation of nucleotides in simulated hydrothermal pore systems

    PNAS 2007 104:9346-9351; published ahead of print May 9, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0609592104
    • See commentary article on page 9105 in issue 22 of volume 104

Geophysics

  • High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
    • Harry W. Green, II

    High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature: Shearing instabilities accompanying high-pressure phase transformations and the mechanics of deep earthquakes

    PNAS 2007 104:9133-9138; published ahead of print April 27, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608045104
  • High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
    • Fabio Cammarano
    • and Barbara Romanowicz

    High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature: Insights into the nature of the transition zone from physically constrained inversion of long-period seismic data

    PNAS 2007 104:9139-9144; published ahead of print May 2, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608075104
  • High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
    • Baosheng Li
    • and Robert C. Liebermann

    High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature: Indoor seismology by probing the Earth's interior by using sound velocity measurements at high pressures and temperatures

    PNAS 2007 104:9145-9150; published ahead of print May 7, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608609104
  • High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
    • Daoyuan Sun,
    • Eh Tan,
    • Don Helmberger,
    • and Michael Gurnis

    High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature: Seismological support for the metastable superplume model, sharp features, and phase changes within the lower mantle

    PNAS 2007 104:9151-9155; published ahead of print April 10, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608160104
  • High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
    • Marc Monnereau
    • and David A. Yuen

    High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature: Topology of the postperovskite phase transition and mantle dynamics

    PNAS 2007 104:9156-9161; published ahead of print May 3, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608480104
  • High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
    • Bin Chen,
    • Lili Gao,
    • Ken-ichi Funakoshi,
    • and Jie Li

    High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature: Thermal expansion of iron-rich alloys and implications for the Earth's core

    PNAS 2007 104:9162-9167; published ahead of print April 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610474104
  • High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
    • Eyvaz I. Isaev,
    • Natalia V. Skorodumova,
    • Rajeev Ahuja,
    • Yuri K. Vekilov,
    • and Börje Johansson

    High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature: Dynamical stability of Fe-H in the Earth's mantle and core regions

    PNAS 2007 104:9168-9171; published ahead of print May 4, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0609701104
  • High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
    • Geun Woo Lee,
    • William J. Evans,
    • and Choong-Shik Yoo

    High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature: Dynamic pressure-induced dendritic and shock crystal growth of ice VI

    PNAS 2007 104:9178-9181; published ahead of print February 12, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0609390104
  • High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
    • Yingwei Fei,
    • Angele Ricolleau,
    • Mark Frank,
    • Kenji Mibe,
    • Guoyin Shen,
    • and Vitali Prakapenka

    High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature: Toward an internally consistent pressure scale

    PNAS 2007 104:9182-9186; published ahead of print May 2, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0609013104
  • High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
    • Alexandra Navrotsky,
    • Maria Dorogova,
    • Frances Hellman,
    • David W. Cooke,
    • Barry L. Zink,
    • Charles E. Lesher,
    • Juliana Boerio-Goates,
    • Brian F. Woodfield,
    • and Brian Lang

    High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature: Application of calorimetry on a chip to high-pressure materials

    PNAS 2007 104:9187-9191; published ahead of print May 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608165104
  • High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
    • Anne M. Hofmeister

    High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature: Pressure dependence of thermal transport properties

    PNAS 2007 104:9192-9197; published ahead of print February 13, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610734104

Physics

  • High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Physics:
    • Raymond Jeanloz,
    • Peter M. Celliers,
    • Gilbert W. Collins,
    • Jon H. Eggert,
    • Kanani K. M. Lee,
    • R. Stewart McWilliams,
    • Stéphanie Brygoo,
    • and Paul Loubeyre

    High-Pressure Geoscience Special Feature: Achieving high-density states through shock-wave loading of precompressed samples

    PNAS 2007 104:9172-9177; published ahead of print May 9, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608170104
  • Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Erel Levine
    • and Terence Hwa

    Stochastic fluctuations in metabolic pathways

    PNAS 2007 104:9224-9229; published ahead of print May 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610987104
  • Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • David L. Bostick
    • and Charles L. Brooks, III

    Selectivity in K + channels is due to topological control of the permeant ion's coordinated state

    PNAS 2007 104:9260-9265; published ahead of print May 22, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700554104

Social Sciences