PNAS Table of Contents for September 4, 2018; Vol. 115, No. 36

[PNAS] [See the PNAS Anthropology Portal](/cgi/adclick/?ad=52935&adclick=true&url=http%3A%2F%2Fanthropology.pnas.org%2F)   [September 4, 2018; Vol. 115, No. 36]( ) This Week in PNAS [In This Issue]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Letters (Online Only) [Suppression of convective precipitation by elevated man-made aerosols is responsible for large-scale droughts in north China]( Zhen Li, Shaocai Yu, Liqiang Wang, Khalid Mehmood, Weiping Liu, and Kiran Alapaty [Reply to Li et al: Late 20th-century drought in northern China reflects influence of global warming, aerosols, and natural variability]( Jesse A. Day, Inez Y. Fung, and Weihan Liu [No evidence of cryptic bycatch causing New Zealand sea lion population decline]( Jim Roberts, Simon Childerhouse, Wendi Roe, G. Barry Baker, and Sheryl Hamilton [Reply to Roberts et al.: Faith in no fishery impact on New Zealand sea lions based on misunderstandings and unsubstantiated claims]( Stefan Meyer, Bruce C. Robertson, B. Louise Chilvers, and Martin Krkošek --------------------------------------------------------------- Core Concepts [Core Concept: Environmental DNA helps researchers track pythons and other stealthy creatures]( Carolyn Beans A brief introduction to emerging topics in science. --------------------------------------------------------------- Commentaries [Personalized therapeutic delivery in the neurosurgical operating room]( Michael A. Vogelbaum [Extreme bioengineering to meet the nitrogen challenge]( Stefan Burén, Gema López-Torrejón, and Luis M. Rubio [The bacterial outer membrane is an evolving antibiotic barrier]( Kerrie L. May and Marcin Grabowicz [Bacterial type VI secretion system facilitates niche domination]( Natália C. Drebes Dörr and Melanie Blokesch --------------------------------------------------------------- PNAS Plus Significance Statements [PNAS Plus Significance Statements]( Brief statements written by the authors about the significance of their papers. --------------------------------------------------------------- Perspective [Transitions to freshwater sustainability]( Peter H. Gleick --------------------------------------------------------------- Physical Sciences Astronomy [Hack weeks as a model for data science education and collaboration]( Daniela Huppenkothen, Anthony Arendt, David W. Hogg, Karthik Ram, Jacob T. VanderPlas, and Ariel Rokem Biophysics and Computational Biology [Bistable emergence of oscillations in growing Bacillus subtilis biofilms]( Rosa Martinez-Corral, Jintao Liu, Gürol M. Süel, and Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo [Redox-coupled quinone dynamics in the respiratory complex I]( Judith Warnau, Vivek Sharma, Ana P. Gamiz-Hernandez, Andrea Di Luca, Outi Haapanen, Ilpo Vattulainen, Mårten Wikström, Gerhard Hummer, and Ville R. I. Kaila [Chance, long tails, and inference in a non-Gaussian, Bayesian theory of vocal learning in songbirds]( Baohua Zhou, David Hofmann, Itai Pinkoviezky, Samuel J. Sober, and Ilya Nemenman [Convolutional neural networks automate detection for tracking of submicron-scale particles in 2D and 3D]( Jay M. Newby, Alison M. Schaefer, Phoebe T. Lee, M. Gregory Forest, and Samuel K. Lai Chemistry [Closely packed, low reorganization energy π-extended postfullerene acceptors for efficient polymer solar cells]( Steven M. Swick, Weigang Zhu, Micaela Matta, Thomas J. Aldrich, Alexandra Harbuzaru, J. Teodomiro Lopez Navarrete, Rocio Ponce Ortiz, Kevin L. Kohlstedt, George C. Schatz, Antonio Facchetti, Ferdinand S. Melkonyan, and Tobin J. Marks [On the importance of accounting for nuclear quantum effects in ab initio calibrated force fields in biological simulations]( Leonid Pereyaslavets, Igor Kurnikov, Ganesh Kamath, Oleg Butin, Alexey Illarionov, Igor Leontyev, Michael Olevanov, Michael Levitt, Roger D. Kornberg, and Boris Fain [High aspect ratio nanotubes assembled from macrocyclic iminium salts]( Chao Sun, Meng Shen, Anton D. Chavez, Austin M. Evans, Xiaolong Liu, Boris Harutyunyan, Nathan C. Flanders, Mark C. Hersam, Michael J. Bedzyk, Monica Olvera de la Cruz, and William R. Dichtel [Phase-transition–induced p-n junction in single halide perovskite nanowire]( Qiao Kong, Woochul Lee, Minliang Lai, Connor G. Bischak, Guoping Gao, Andrew B. Wong, Teng Lei, Yi Yu, Lin-Wang Wang, Naomi S. Ginsberg, and Peidong Yang [Control of the hierarchical self-assembly of polyoxometalate-based metallomacrocycles by redox trigger and solvent composition]( Madeleine Piot, Benjamin Abécassis, Dalil Brouri, Claire Troufflard, Anna Proust, and Guillaume Izzet Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences [Decreasing fire season precipitation increased recent western US forest wildfire activity]( Zachary A. Holden, Alan Swanson, Charles H. Luce, W. Matt Jolly, Marco Maneta, Jared W. Oyler, Dyer A. Warren, Russell Parsons, and David Affleck [Wettability in complex porous materials, the mixed-wet state, and its relationship to surface roughness]( Ahmed AlRatrout, Martin J. Blunt, and Branko Bijeljic [Direct evidence of surface exposed water ice in the lunar polar regions]( Shuai Li, Paul G. Lucey, Ralph E. Milliken, Paul O. Hayne, Elizabeth Fisher, Jean-Pierre Williams, Dana M. Hurley, and Richard C. Elphic [Multidecadally resolved polarity oscillations during a geomagnetic excursion]( Yu-Min Chou, Xiuyang Jiang, Qingsong Liu, Hsun-Ming Hu, Chung-Che Wu, Jianxing Liu, Zhaoxia Jiang, Teh-Quei Lee, Chun-Chieh Wang, Yen-Fang Song, Cheng-Cheng Chiang, Liangcheng Tan, Mahjoor A. Lone, Yongxin Pan, Rixiang Zhu, Yaoqi He, Yu-Chen Chou, An-Hung Tan, Andrew P. Roberts, Xiang Zhao, and Chuan-Chou Shen Engineering [Morphological intelligence counters foot slipping in the desert locust and dynamic robots]( Matthew A. Woodward and Metin Sitti [Material microenvironmental properties couple to induce distinct transcriptional programs in mammalian stem cells]( Max Darnell, Alison O’Neil, Angelo Mao, Luo Gu, Lee L. Rubin, and David J. Mooney [Tunable stacking fault energies by tailoring local chemical order in CrCoNi medium-entropy alloys]( Jun Ding, Qin Yu, Mark Asta, and Robert O. Ritchie [Gelation of plasmonic metal oxide nanocrystals by polymer-induced depletion attractions]( Camila A. Saez Cabezas, Gary K. Ong, Ryan B. Jadrich, Beth A. Lindquist, Ankit Agrawal, Thomas M. Truskett, and Delia J. Milliron [Classification of prostate cancer using a protease activity nanosensor library]( Jaideep S. Dudani, Maria Ibrahim, Jesse Kirkpatrick, Andrew D. Warren, and Sangeeta N. Bhatia Environmental Sciences [Modulation of hydroxyl variability by ENSO in the absence of external forcing]( Alexander J. Turner, Inez Fung, Vaishali Naik, Larry W. Horowitz, and Ronald C. Cohen [Ocean currents and herbivory drive macroalgae-to-coral community shift under climate warming]( Naoki H. Kumagai, Jorge García Molinos, Hiroya Yamano, Shintaro Takao, Masahiko Fujii, and Yasuhiro Yamanaka Physics [Radiative heating achieves the ultimate regime of thermal convection]( Simon Lepot, Sébastien Aumaître, and Basile Gallet --------------------------------------------------------------- Social Sciences Anthropology [A monumental cemetery built by eastern Africa’s first herders near Lake Turkana, Kenya]( Elisabeth A. Hildebrand, Katherine M. Grillo, Elizabeth A. Sawchuk, Susan K. Pfeiffer, Lawrence B. Conyers, Steven T. Goldstein, Austin Chad Hill, Anneke Janzen, Carla E. Klehm, Mark Helper, Purity Kiura, Emmanuel Ndiema, Cecilia Ngugi, John J. Shea, and Hong Wang Sustainability Science [Status-quo management of marine recreational fisheries undermines angler welfare]( Joshua K. Abbott, Patrick Lloyd-Smith, Daniel Willard, and Wiktor Adamowicz --------------------------------------------------------------- Biological Sciences Applied Biological Sciences [Material microenvironmental properties couple to induce distinct transcriptional programs in mammalian stem cells]( Max Darnell, Alison O’Neil, Angelo Mao, Luo Gu, Lee L. Rubin, and David J. Mooney [Viral genetic diversity and protective efficacy of a tetravalent dengue vaccine in two phase 3 trials]( Michal Juraska, Craig A. Magaret, Jason Shao, Lindsay N. Carpp, Andrew J. Fiore-Gartland, David Benkeser, Yves Girerd-Chambaz, Edith Langevin, Carina Frago, Bruno Guy, Nicholas Jackson, Kien Duong Thi Hue, Cameron P. Simmons, Paul T. Edlefsen, and Peter B. Gilbert [Genotype-targeted local therapy of glioma]( Ganesh M. Shankar, Ameya R. Kirtane, Julie J. Miller, Hormoz Mazdiyasni, Jaimie Rogner, Tammy Tai, Erik A. Williams, Fumi Higuchi, Tareq A. Juratli, Kensuke Tateishi, Mara V. A. Koerner, Shilpa S. Tummala, Alexandria L. Fink, Tristan Penson, Stephen P. Schmidt, Gregory R. Wojtkiewicz, Aymen Baig, Joshua M. Francis, Mikael L. Rinne, Julie M. Batten, Tracy T. Batchelor, Priscilla K. Brastianos, William T. Curry Jr., Fred G. Barker II, Justin T. Jordan, A. John Iafrate, Andrew S. Chi, Jochen K. Lennerz, Matthew Meyerson, Robert Langer, Hiroaki Wakimoto, Giovanni Traverso, and Daniel P. Cahill [Classification of prostate cancer using a protease activity nanosensor library]( Jaideep S. Dudani, Maria Ibrahim, Jesse Kirkpatrick, Andrew D. Warren, and Sangeeta N. Bhatia Biochemistry [Two novel protein O-glucosyltransferases that modify sites distinct from POGLUT1 and affect Notch trafficking and signaling]( Hideyuki Takeuchi, Michael Schneider, Daniel B. Williamson, Atsuko Ito, Megumi Takeuchi, Penny A. Handford, and Robert S. Haltiwanger [Auto-fatty acylation of transcription factor RFX3 regulates ciliogenesis]( Baoen Chen, Jixiao Niu, Johannes Kreuzer, Baohui Zheng, Gopala K. Jarugumilli, Wilhelm Haas, and Xu Wu [Conservation of coactivator engagement mechanism enables small-molecule allosteric modulators]( Andrew R. Henderson, Matthew J. Henley, Nicholas J. Foster, Amanda L. Peiffer, Matthew S. Beyersdorf, Kevon D. Stanford, Steven M. Sturlis, Brian M. Linhares, Zachary B. Hill, James A. Wells, Tomasz Cierpicki, Charles L. Brooks III, Carol A. Fierke, and Anna K. Mapp [Acid-responsive activity of the Helicobacter pylori metalloregulator NikR]( Michael D. Jones, Yanjie Li, and Deborah B. Zamble Biophysics and Computational Biology [Morphological intelligence counters foot slipping in the desert locust and dynamic robots]( Matthew A. Woodward and Metin Sitti [Redox-coupled quinone dynamics in the respiratory complex I]( Judith Warnau, Vivek Sharma, Ana P. Gamiz-Hernandez, Andrea Di Luca, Outi Haapanen, Ilpo Vattulainen, Mårten Wikström, Gerhard Hummer, and Ville R. I. Kaila [On the importance of accounting for nuclear quantum effects in ab initio calibrated force fields in biological simulations]( Leonid Pereyaslavets, Igor Kurnikov, Ganesh Kamath, Oleg Butin, Alexey Illarionov, Igor Leontyev, Michael Olevanov, Michael Levitt, Roger D. Kornberg, and Boris Fain [Structural basis of RNA polymerase I stalling at UV light-induced DNA damage]( Marta Sanz-Murillo, Jun Xu, Georgiy A. Belogurov, Olga Calvo, David Gil-Carton, María Moreno-Morcillo, Dong Wang, and Carlos Fernández-Tornero [Structural basis for antibiotic resistance mediated by the Bacillus subtilis ABCF ATPase VmlR]( Caillan Crowe-McAuliffe, Michael Graf, Paul Huter, Hiraku Takada, Maha Abdelshahid, Jiří Nováček, Victoriia Murina, Gemma C. Atkinson, Vasili Hauryliuk, and Daniel N. Wilson Cell Biology [SNARE zippering requires activation by SNARE-like peptides in Sec1/Munc18 proteins]( Haijia Yu, Chong Shen, Yinghui Liu, Bridget L. Menasche, Yan Ouyang, Michael H. B. Stowell, and Jingshi Shen [Identification of a multipotent Twist2-expressing cell population in the adult heart]( Yi-Li Min, Priscilla Jaichander, Efrain Sanchez-Ortiz, Svetlana Bezprozvannaya, Venkat S. Malladi, Miao Cui, Zhaoning Wang, Rhonda Bassel-Duby, Eric N. Olson, and Ning Liu [Recycling of Golgi glycosyltransferases requires direct binding to coatomer]( Lin Liu, Balraj Doray, and Stuart Kornfeld Developmental Biology [Rapid diffusion-state switching underlies stable cytoplasmic gradients in the Caenorhabditis elegans zygote]( Youjun Wu, Bingjie Han, Younan Li, Edwin Munro, David J. Odde, and Erik E. Griffin Ecology [Decreasing fire season precipitation increased recent western US forest wildfire activity]( Zachary A. Holden, Alan Swanson, Charles H. Luce, W. Matt Jolly, Marco Maneta, Jared W. Oyler, Dyer A. Warren, Russell Parsons, and David Affleck [Ocean currents and herbivory drive macroalgae-to-coral community shift under climate warming]( Naoki H. Kumagai, Jorge García Molinos, Hiroya Yamano, Shintaro Takao, Masahiko Fujii, and Yasuhiro Yamanaka Evolution [Evolutionary history of human Plasmodium vivax revealed by genome-wide analyses of related ape parasites]( Dorothy E. Loy, Lindsey J. Plenderleith, Sesh A. Sundararaman, Weimin Liu, Jakub Gruszczyk, Yi-Jun Chen, Stephanie Trimboli, Gerald H. Learn, Oscar A. MacLean, Alex L. K. Morgan, Yingying Li, Alexa N. Avitto, Jasmin Giles, Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer, Andreas Sachse, Fabian H. Leendertz, Sheri Speede, Ahidjo Ayouba, Martine Peeters, Julian C. Rayner, Wai-Hong Tham, Paul M. Sharp, and Beatrice H. Hahn [Transfer RNA genes experience exceptionally elevated mutation rates]( Bryan P. Thornlow, Josh Hough, Jacquelyn M. Roger, Henry Gong, Todd M. Lowe, and Russell B. Corbett-Detig Immunology and Inflammation [Circadian clock protein BMAL1 regulates IL-1β in macrophages via NRF2]( James O. Early, Deepthi Menon, Cathy A. Wyse, Mariana P. Cervantes-Silva, Zbigniew Zaslona, Richard G. Carroll, Eva M. Palsson-McDermott, Stefano Angiari, Dylan G. Ryan, Sarah E. Corcoran, George Timmons, Sarah S. Geiger, Darren J. Fitzpatrick, Daniel O’Connell, Ramnik J. Xavier, Karsten Hokamp, Luke A. J. O’Neill, and Annie M. Curtis [Intestinal host defense outcome is dictated by PGE2 production during efferocytosis of infected cells]( Naiara Naiana Dejani, Allan Botinhon Orlando, Victoria Eugenia Niño, Letícia de Aquino Penteado, Felipe Fortino Verdan, Júlia Miranda Ribeiro Bazzano, Ana Campos Codo, Ana Carolina Guerta Salina, Amanda Correia Saraiva, Matheus Rossi Avelar, Luis Carlos Spolidorio, C. Henrique Serezani, and Alexandra Ivo Medeiros [Inflammasome-derived cytokine IL18 suppresses amyloid-induced seizures in Alzheimer-prone mice]( Te-Chen Tzeng, Yuto Hasegawa, Risa Iguchi, Amy Cheung, Daniel R. Caffrey, Elizabeth Jeanne Thatcher, Wenjie Mao, Gail Germain, Nelsy DePaula Tamburro, Shigeo Okabe, Michael T. Heneka, Eicke Latz, Kensuke Futai, and Douglas T. Golenbock Medical Sciences [Metastatic cells are preferentially vulnerable to lysosomal inhibition]( Michael J. Morgan, Brent E. Fitzwalter, Charles R. Owens, Rani K. Powers, Joseph L. Sottnik, Graciela Gamez, James C. Costello, Dan Theodorescu, and Andrew Thorburn [Stunted childhood growth is associated with decompartmentalization of the gastrointestinal tract and overgrowth of oropharyngeal taxa]( Pascale Vonaesch, Evan Morien, Lova Andrianonimiadana, Hugues Sanke, Jean-Robert Mbecko, Kelsey E. Huus, Tanteliniaina Naharimanananirina, Bolmbaye Privat Gondje, Synthia Nazita Nigatoloum, Sonia Sandrine Vondo, Jepthé Estimé Kaleb Kandou, Rindra Randremanana, Maheninasy Rakotondrainipiana, Florent Mazel, Serge Ghislain Djorie, Jean-Chrysostome Gody, B. Brett Finlay, Pierre-Alain Rubbo, Laura Wegener Parfrey, Jean-Marc Collard, Philippe J. Sansonetti, and The Afribiota Investigators [Macrophages release plasma membrane-derived particles rich in accessible cholesterol]( Cuiwen He, Xuchen Hu, Thomas A. Weston, Rachel S. Jung, Jaspreet Sandhu, Song Huang, Patrick Heizer, Jason Kim, Rochelle Ellison, Jiake Xu, Matthew Kilburn, Steven J. Bensinger, Howard Riezman, Peter Tontonoz, Loren G. Fong, Haibo Jiang, and Stephen G. Young [Nonuniformity in ligaments is a structural strategy for optimizing functionality]( Gili R. S. Naveh, Jonathan E. Foster, Tomas M. Silva Santisteban, Xianrui Yang, and Bjorn R. Olsen [Aberrant early endosome biogenesis mediates complement activation in the retinal pigment epithelium in models of macular degeneration]( Gulpreet Kaur, Li Xuan Tan, Gurugirijha Rathnasamy, Nilsa La Cunza, Colin J. Germer, Kimberly A. Toops, Marie Fernandes, Timothy A. Blenkinsop, and Aparna Lakkaraju Microbiology [Polyprotein strategy for stoichiometric assembly of nitrogen fixation components for synthetic biology]( Jianguo Yang, Xiaqing Xie, Nan Xiang, Zhe-Xian Tian, Ray Dixon, and Yi-Ping Wang [Phospholipid retention in the absence of asymmetry strengthens the outer membrane permeability barrier to last-resort antibiotics]( Matthew J. Powers and M. Stephen Trent [Bacterial symbionts use a type VI secretion system to eliminate competitors in their natural host]( Lauren Speare, Andrew G. Cecere, Kirsten R. Guckes, Stephanie Smith, Michael S. Wollenberg, Mark J. Mandel, Tim Miyashiro, and Alecia N. Septer Neuroscience [Chance, long tails, and inference in a non-Gaussian, Bayesian theory of vocal learning in songbirds]( Baohua Zhou, David Hofmann, Itai Pinkoviezky, Samuel J. Sober, and Ilya Nemenman [Mutation-independent rhodopsin gene therapy by knockdown and replacement with a single AAV vector]( Artur V. Cideciyan, Raghavi Sudharsan, Valérie L. Dufour, Michael T. Massengill, Simone Iwabe, Malgorzata Swider, Brianna Lisi, Alexander Sumaroka, Luis Felipe Marinho, Tatyana Appelbaum, Brian Rossmiller, William W. Hauswirth, Samuel G. Jacobson, Alfred S. Lewin, Gustavo D. Aguirre, and William A. Beltran [Involvement of advillin in somatosensory neuron subtype-specific axon regeneration and neuropathic pain]( Yu-Chia Chuang, Cheng-Han Lee, Wei-Hsin Sun, and Chih-Cheng Chen [Local field potentials of subthalamic nucleus contain electrophysiological footprints of motor subtypes of Parkinson’s disease]( Ilknur Telkes, Ashwin Viswanathan, Joohi Jimenez-Shahed, Aviva Abosch, Musa Ozturk, Akshay Gupte, Joseph Jankovic, and Nuri F. Ince [Hack weeks as a model for data science education and collaboration]( Daniela Huppenkothen, Anthony Arendt, David W. Hogg, Karthik Ram, Jacob T. VanderPlas, and Ariel Rokem [Monitoring food preference in Drosophila by oligonucleotide tagging]( Annie Park, Tracy Tran, and Nigel S. Atkinson Pharmacology [Convolutional neural networks automate detection for tracking of submicron-scale particles in 2D and 3D]( Jay M. Newby, Alison M. Schaefer, Phoebe T. Lee, M. Gregory Forest, and Samuel K. Lai Physiology [Selective permeability of mouse blood-aqueous barrier as determined by 15N-heavy isotope tracing and mass spectrometry]( Pan Liu, Benjamin R. Thomson, Natalia Khalatyan, Liang Feng, Xiaorong Liu, Jeffrey N. Savas, Susan E. Quaggin, and Jing Jin Plant Biology [Eukaryotic lipid metabolic pathway is essential for functional chloroplasts and CO2 and light responses in Arabidopsis guard cells]( Juntaro Negi, Shintaro Munemasa, Boseok Song, Ryosuke Tadakuma, Mayumi Fujita, Tamar Azoulay-Shemer, Cawas B. Engineer, Kensuke Kusumi, Ikuo Nishida, Julian I. Schroeder, and Koh Iba Systems Biology [Bistable emergence of oscillations in growing Bacillus subtilis biofilms]( Rosa Martinez-Corral, Jintao Liu, Gürol M. Süel, and Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo --------------------------------------------------------------- Corrections (Online Only) [Correction for Negrón-Oyarzo et al., Coordinated prefrontal–hippocampal activity and navigation strategy-related prefrontal firing during spatial memory formation]( [Correction for Mitchell et al., Nongenetic origins of cell-to-cell variability in B lymphocyte proliferation]( --------------------------------------------------------------- SI Correction (Online Only) [Correction to Supporting Information for Potting et al., Genome-wide CRISPR screen for PARKIN regulators reveals transcriptional repression as a determinant of mitophagy]( [Cover] --------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to {EMAIL}. [Unsubscribe]( from or [edit]( your subscription for this service. Or by mail: Customer Service * 973 University Avenue * Los Gatos, CA 95032 * U.S.A. Copyright © 2018 by the National Academy of Sciences