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April 1, 2008; 105 (13)
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FROM THE COVER
Iberian bear gene flow
Organic transistors
Pre-Incan gold jewelry
Babies' intuitive statistics
Tumor MRI gene links
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Roger A. Davis
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Alan D. Attie
Deletion of the ileal basolateral bile acid transporter identifies the cellular sentinels that regulate the bile acid pool
PNAS
2008
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Commentary
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Jill Trewhella
The different views from small angles
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2008
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March 24, 2008
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Farooq Ahmed
Profile of Bonnie L. Bassler
PNAS
2008
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March 24, 2008
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Physical Sciences
Applied Mathematics
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Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics
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Lucas Lacasa
,
Bartolo Luque
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Fernando Ballesteros
,
Jordi Luque
,
and
Juan Carlos Nuño
From time series to complex networks: The visibility graph
PNAS
2008
105
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March 24, 2008
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0709247105
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Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics
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Álvaro Sánchez
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Jané Kondev
Transcriptional control of noise in gene expression
PNAS
2008
105
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5081
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5086
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March 19, 2008
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0707904105
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Engineering
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Physical Sciences - Engineering
:
Tsuyoshi Sekitani
,
Yoshiaki Noguchi
,
Ute Zschieschang
,
Hagen Klauk
,
and
Takao Someya
From the Cover: Organic transistors manufactured using inkjet technology with subfemtoliter accuracy
PNAS
2008
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0708340105
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Pak Kin Wong
,
Fuqu Yu
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Arash Shahangian
,
Genhong Cheng
,
Ren Sun
,
and
Chih-Ming Ho
Closed-loop control of cellular functions using combinatory drugs guided by a stochastic search algorithm
PNAS
2008
105
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5105
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March 20, 2008
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0800823105
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Geology
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Physical Sciences - Geology - Biological Sciences - Evolution
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Cin-Ty Aeolus Lee
,
Douglas M. Morton
,
Mark G. Little
,
Ronald Kistler
,
Ulyana N. Horodyskyj
,
William P. Leeman
,
and
Arnaud Agranier
Regulating continent growth and composition by chemical weathering
PNAS
2008
105
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4981
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4986
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March 24, 2008
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0711143105
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Chengshan Wang
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Xixi Zhao
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Zhifei Liu
,
Peter C. Lippert
,
Stephan A. Graham
,
Robert S. Coe
,
Haisheng Yi
,
Lidong Zhu
,
Shun Liu
,
and
Yalin Li
Constraints on the early uplift history of the Tibetan Plateau
PNAS
2008
105
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March 24, 2008
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0703595105
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Physical Sciences - Physics
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Rob Zondervan
,
Ted Xia
,
Harmen van der Meer
,
Cornelis Storm
,
Florian Kulzer
,
Wim van Saarloos
,
and
Michel Orrit
Soft glassy rheology of supercooled molecular liquids
PNAS
2008
105
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4998
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March 24, 2008
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0710032105
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Physical Sciences - Physics
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Qifeng Zeng
,
Zhi He
,
Xiaojiao San
,
Yanming Ma
,
Fubo Tian
,
Tian Cui
,
Bingbing Liu
,
Guangtian Zou
,
and
Ho-kwang Mao
A new phase of solid iodine with different molecular covalent bonds
PNAS
2008
105
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March 26, 2008
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0801280105
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Social Sciences - Anthropology
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Mark Aldenderfer
,
Nathan M. Craig
,
Robert J. Speakman
,
and
Rachel Popelka-Filcoff
From the Cover: Four-thousand-year-old gold artifacts from the Lake Titicaca basin, southern Peru
PNAS
2008
105
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March 31, 2008
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0710937105
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Social Sciences - Anthropology
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Sonia Zarrillo
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Deborah M. Pearsall
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J. Scott Raymond
,
Mary Ann Tisdale
,
and
Dugane J. Quon
Directly dated starch residues document early formative maize ( Zea mays L.) in tropical Ecuador
PNAS
2008
105
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March 24, 2008
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0800894105
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Social Sciences - Psychology
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Fei Xu
and
Vashti Garcia
From the Cover: Intuitive statistics by 8-month-old infants
PNAS
2008
105
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5015
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March 31, 2008
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0704450105
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Social Sciences - Social Sciences
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Greg L. Drevenstedt
,
Eileen M. Crimmins
,
Sarinnapha Vasunilashorn
,
and
Caleb E. Finch
The rise and fall of excess male infant mortality
PNAS
2008
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March 24, 2008
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Shane R. Wilkinson
,
Martin C. Taylor
,
David Horn
,
John M. Kelly
,
and
Ian Cheeseman
A mechanism for cross-resistance to nifurtimox and benznidazole in trypanosomes
PNAS
2008
105
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March 26, 2008
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0711014105
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Lily Agranat
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Oleg Raitskin
,
Joseph Sperling
,
and
Ruth Sperling
The editing enzyme ADAR1 and the mRNA surveillance protein hUpf1 interact in the cell nucleus
PNAS
2008
105
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March 24, 2008
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Augen A. Pioszak
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H. Eric Xu
Molecular recognition of parathyroid hormone by its G protein-coupled receptor
PNAS
2008
105
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March 28, 2008
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0801027105
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Arnaud Javelle
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Domenico Lupo
,
Pierre Ripoche
,
Tim Fulford
,
Mike Merrick
,
and
Fritz K. Winkler
Substrate binding, deprotonation, and selectivity at the periplasmic entrance of the Escherichia coli ammonia channel AmtB
PNAS
2008
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March 24, 2008
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0711742105
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Katsuhiko S. Murakami
,
Elena K. Davydova
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and
Lucia B. Rothman-Denes
X-ray crystal structure of the polymerase domain of the bacteriophage N4 virion RNA polymerase
PNAS
2008
105
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March 24, 2008
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0712325105
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Kristie D. Goodwin
,
Mark A. Lewis
,
Eric C. Long
,
and
Millie M. Georgiadis
Crystal structure of DNA-bound Co(III)·bleomycin B 2 : Insights on intercalation and minor groove binding
PNAS
2008
105
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March 24, 2008
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0708143105
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Robbyn L. Tuinstra
,
Francis C. Peterson
,
Snjezana Kutlesa
,
E. Sonay Elgin
,
Michael A. Kron
,
and
Brian F. Volkman
Interconversion between two unrelated protein folds in the lymphotactin native state
PNAS
2008
105
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5062
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March 25, 2008
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0709518105
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Subhasis Mohanty
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Terrence Town
,
Tomohito Yagi
,
Christina Scheidig
,
Kelvin Y. Kwan
,
Heather G. Allore
,
Richard A. Flavell
,
and
Albert C. Shaw
Defective p53 engagement after the induction of DNA damage in cells deficient in topoisomerase 3β
PNAS
2008
105
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5063
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5068
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March 26, 2008
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0801235105
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
:
Robert Ernst
,
Petra Kueppers
,
Cornelia M. Klein
,
Tobias Schwarzmueller
,
Karl Kuchler
,
and
Lutz Schmitt
A mutation of the H-loop selectively affects rhodamine transport by the yeast multidrug ABC transporter Pdr5
PNAS
2008
105
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5069
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5074
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March 20, 2008
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0800191105
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics
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Anuj Shukla
,
Efstratios Mylonas
,
Emanuela Di Cola
,
Stephanie Finet
,
Peter Timmins
,
Theyencheri Narayanan
,
and
Dmitri I. Svergun
Absence of equilibrium cluster phase in concentrated lysozyme solutions
PNAS
2008
105
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March 24, 2008
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0711928105
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4967
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Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics
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Álvaro Sánchez
and
Jané Kondev
Transcriptional control of noise in gene expression
PNAS
2008
105
:
5081
-
5086
;
published ahead of print
March 19, 2008
,
doi:10.1073/pnas.0707904105
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics
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Ming-Tao Lee
,
Wei-Chin Hung
,
Fang-Yu Chen
,
and
Huey W. Huang
Mechanism and kinetics of pore formation in membranes by water-soluble amphipathic peptides
PNAS
2008
105
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5087
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5092
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March 28, 2008
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0710625105
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Minoru Sakurai
,
Takao Furuki
,
Ken-ichi Akao
,
Daisuke Tanaka
,
Yuichi Nakahara
,
Takahiro Kikawada
,
Masahiko Watanabe
,
and
Takashi Okuda
Vitrification is essential for anhydrobiosis in an African chironomid, Polypedilum vanderplanki
PNAS
2008
105
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5093
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5098
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March 24, 2008
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0706197105
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Wolfgang Hoyer
,
Caroline Grönwall
,
Andreas Jonsson
,
Stefan Ståhl
,
and
Torleif Härd
Stabilization of a β-hairpin in monomeric Alzheimer's amyloid-β peptide inhibits amyloid formation
PNAS
2008
105
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5099
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5104
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March 28, 2008
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0711731105
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Physical Sciences - Engineering - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology
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Pak Kin Wong
,
Fuqu Yu
,
Arash Shahangian
,
Genhong Cheng
,
Ren Sun
,
and
Chih-Ming Ho
Closed-loop control of cellular functions using combinatory drugs guided by a stochastic search algorithm
PNAS
2008
105
:
5105
-
5110
;
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March 20, 2008
,
doi:10.1073/pnas.0800823105
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Bita Sahaf
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Kondala Atkuri
,
Kartoosh Heydari
,
Meena Malipatlolla
,
Jay Rappaport
,
Emmanuel Regulier
,
Leonard A. Herzenberg
,
and
Leonore A. Herzenberg
Culturing of human peripheral blood cells reveals unsuspected lymphocyte responses relevant to HIV disease
PNAS
2008
105
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5111
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5116
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March 25, 2008
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0712363105
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Avigail D. Amsel
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Moran Rathaus
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Noam Kronman
,
and
Haim Y. Cohen
Regulation of the proapoptotic factor Bax by Ku70-dependent deubiquitylation
PNAS
2008
105
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5117
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5122
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March 24, 2008
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0706700105
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Cristina E. Valdiosera
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José Luis García-Garitagoitia
,
Nuria Garcia
,
Ignacio Doadrio
,
Mark G. Thomas
,
Catherine Hänni
,
Juan-Luis Arsuaga
,
Ian Barnes
,
Michael Hofreiter
,
Ludovic Orlando
,
and
Anders Götherström
From the Cover: Surprising migration and population size dynamics in ancient Iberian brown bears ( Ursus arctos )
PNAS
2008
105
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5128
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March 17, 2008
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0712223105
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Jorge A. Zavala
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Clare L. Casteel
,
Evan H. DeLucia
,
and
May R. Berenbaum
Anthropogenic increase in carbon dioxide compromises plant defense against invasive insects
PNAS
2008
105
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5133
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Robert Ptacnik
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Angelo G. Solimini
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Tom Andersen
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Timo Tamminen
,
Pål Brettum
,
Liisa Lepistö
,
Eva Willén
,
and
Seppo Rekolainen
Diversity predicts stability and resource use efficiency in natural phytoplankton communities
PNAS
2008
105
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5134
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5138
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March 28, 2008
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0708328105
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Cin-Ty Aeolus Lee
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Douglas M. Morton
,
Mark G. Little
,
Ronald Kistler
,
Ulyana N. Horodyskyj
,
William P. Leeman
,
and
Arnaud Agranier
Regulating continent growth and composition by chemical weathering
PNAS
2008
105
:
4981
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4986
;
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March 24, 2008
,
doi:10.1073/pnas.0711143105
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Eugene Gladyshev
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Matthew Meselson
Extreme resistance of bdelloid rotifers to ionizing radiation
PNAS
2008
105
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5139
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5144
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March 24, 2008
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David B. Mark Welch
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Jessica L. Mark Welch
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Matthew Meselson
Evidence for degenerate tetraploidy in bdelloid rotifers
PNAS
2008
105
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5149
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March 24, 2008
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0800972105
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William O. H. Hughes
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Jacobus J. Boomsma
Genetic royal cheats in leaf-cutting ant societies
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2008
105
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March 13, 2008
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Guillaume M. Hautbergue
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Ming-Lung Hung
,
Alexander P. Golovanov
,
Lu-Yun Lian
,
and
Stuart A. Wilson
Mutually exclusive interactions drive handover of mRNA from export adaptors to TAP
PNAS
2008
105
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5159
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March 25, 2008
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0709167105
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Sue Mei Tan-Wong
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Juliet D. French
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Nicholas J. Proudfoot
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and
Melissa A. Brown
Dynamic interactions between the promoter and terminator regions of the mammalian BRCA1 gene
PNAS
2008
105
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5160
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5165
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