PNAS Table of Contents for September 15, 2020; Vol. 117, No. 37

[PNAS] [Science](/cgi/adclick/?ad=55215&adclick=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pnas.org%2Fpage%2Fmedia%2Fpodcasts%23transitions-tied-to-early-farming)   [September 15, 2020; Vol. 117, No. 37]( ) This Week in PNAS [In This Issue]( This week's research highlights --------------------------------------------------------------- Opinion [Opinion: Neonicotinoids pose undocumented threats to food webs]( S. D. Frank and J. F. Tooker [Opinion: Use science to stop sexual harassment in higher education]( Kathryn B. H. Clancy, Lilia M. Cortina, and Anna R. Kirkland Leading scientists discuss current issues --------------------------------------------------------------- Inner Workings [Inner Workings: How human biology and behavior affect indoor air quality]( Nina Notman An over-the-shoulder look at scientists at work --------------------------------------------------------------- Core Concepts [Core Concept: Nascent exascale supercomputers offer promise, present challenges]( Adam Mann A brief introduction to emerging topics in science --------------------------------------------------------------- QnAs [QnAs with Mariano Morales]( Beth Azar Interviews with leading scientific researchers and newsmakers --------------------------------------------------------------- Commentaries [Baboons, bonds, biology, and lessons about early life adversity]( Louise C. Hawkley and John P. Capitanio [Anacardic acid, interleukin-33, and the quest for remyelination]( Murali Ramanathan [How the mitochondrial calcium uniporter complex (MCUcx) works]( Liron Boyman and W. Jonathan Lederer [Trip duration modifies spatial spread of infectious diseases]( Andrew W. Park --------------------------------------------------------------- Perspective [Gold-based therapy: From past to present]( Alice Balfourier, Jelena Kolosnjaj-Tabi, Nathalie Luciani, Florent Carn, and Florence Gazeau --------------------------------------------------------------- Letters [Amino acids in the Tagish meteorite]( Jeffrey L. Bada [Reply to Bada: Acidity and fluid composition on the Tagish Lake parent body]( Lee F. White, Kimberly T. Tait, Brian Langelier, Elizabeth A. Lymer, Ana Černok, Tanya V. Kizovski, Chi Ma, Oliver Tschauner, and Richard I. Nicklin [Fold class and evolutionary mobility of protein modules]( Laszlo Patthy [Functional actin cytoskeleton is required in early stage of NETosis induction]( Ming-Lin Liu [Reply to Liu: The disassembly of the actin cytoskeleton is an early event during NETosis]( Hawa Racine Thiam, Siu Ling Wong, Rong Qiu, Mark Kittisopikul, Amir Vahabikashi, Anne E. Goldman, Robert D. Goldman, Denisa D. Wagner, and Clare M. Waterman --------------------------------------------------------------- Brief Reports [Innovative teaching knowledge stays with users]( A. Kelly Lane, Jacob D. McAlpin, Brittnee Earl, Stephanie Feola, Jennifer E. Lewis, Karl Mertens, Susan E. Shadle, John Skvoretz, John P. Ziker, Brian A. Couch, Luanna B. Prevost, and Marilyne Stains [Public perceptions of federal science advisory boards depend on their composition]( Caitlin Drummond, Sara Goto Gray, Kaitlin T. Raimi, Robyn Wilson, and Joseph Árvai [Defining an amyloid link Between Parkinson’s disease and melanoma]( Dexter N. Dean and Jennifer C. Lee --------------------------------------------------------------- Physical Sciences Applied Mathematics [Stochastic reaction networks in dynamic compartment populations]( Lorenzo Duso and Christoph Zechner Applied Physical Sciences [Avoiding ventilator-associated pneumonia: Curcumin-functionalized endotracheal tube and photodynamic action]( Amanda C. Zangirolami, Lucas D. Dias, Kate C. Blanco, Carolina S. Vinagreiro, Natalia M. Inada, Luis G. Arnaut, Mariette M. Pereira, and Vanderlei S. Bagnato Biophysics and Computational Biology [A network-based explanation of why most COVID-19 infection curves are linear]( Stefan Thurner, Peter Klimek, and Rudolf Hanel [Multivalent weak interactions enhance selectivity of interparticle binding]( M. R. W. Scheepers, L. J. van IJzendoorn, and M. W. J. Prins Chemistry [Facilitating hydrogen atom migration via a dense phase on palladium islands to a surrounding silver surface]( Christopher R. O’Connor, Kaining Duanmu, Dipna A. Patel, Eri Muramoto, Matthijs A. van Spronsen, Dario Stacchiola, E. Charles H. Sykes, Philippe Sautet, Robert J. Madix, and Cynthia M. Friend [Site-specific covalent labeling of large RNAs with nanoparticles empowered by expanded genetic alphabet transcription]( Yan Wang, Yaoyi Chen, Yanping Hu, and Xianyang Fang [CO2 reduction driven by a pH gradient]( Reuben Hudson, Ruvan de Graaf, Mari Strandoo Rodin, Aya Ohno, Nick Lane, Shawn E. McGlynn, Yoichi M. A. Yamada, Ryuhei Nakamura, Laura M. Barge, Dieter Braun, and Victor Sojo Computer Sciences [Restoration of fragmentary Babylonian texts using recurrent neural networks]( Ethan Fetaya, Yonatan Lifshitz, Elad Aaron, and Shai Gordin Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences [Anoxic photogeochemical oxidation of manganese carbonate yields manganese oxide]( Winnie Liu, Jihua Hao, Evert J. Elzinga, Piotr Piotrowiak, Vikas Nanda, Nathan Yee, and Paul G. Falkowski [The contribution of black carbon to global ice nucleating particle concentrations relevant to mixed-phase clouds]( Gregory P. Schill, Paul J. DeMott, Ethan W. Emerson, Anne Marie C. Rauker, John K. Kodros, Kaitlyn J. Suski, Thomas C. J. Hill, Ezra J. T. Levin, Jeffrey R. Pierce, Delphine K. Farmer, and Sonia M. Kreidenweis [A chemical dynamics study on the gas phase formation of thioformaldehyde (H2CS) and its thiohydroxycarbene isomer (HCSH)]( Srinivas Doddipatla, Chao He, Ralf I. Kaiser, Yuheng Luo, Rui Sun, Galiya R. Galimova, Alexander M. Mebel, and Tom J. Millar [Summertime stationary waves integrate tropical and extratropical impacts on tropical cyclone activity]( Zhuo Wang, Gan Zhang, Timothy J. Dunkerton, and Fei-Fei Jin [Biotic rescaling reveals importance of species interactions for variation in biodiversity responses to climate change]( Vigdis Vandvik, Olav Skarpaas, Kari Klanderud, Richard J. Telford, Aud H. Halbritter, and Deborah E. Goldberg Engineering [Rapid isothermal amplification and portable detection system for SARS-CoV-2]( Anurup Ganguli, Ariana Mostafa, Jacob Berger, Mehmet Y. Aydin, Fu Sun, Sarah A. Stewart de Ramirez, Enrique Valera, Brian T. Cunningham, William P. King, and Rashid Bashir [Bioinspired MXene-integrated colloidal crystal arrays for multichannel bioinformation coding]( Feika Bian, Lingyu Sun, Lijun Cai, Yu Wang, and Yuanjin Zhao Environmental Sciences [Latitudinal gradient in the respiration quotient and the implications for ocean oxygen availability]( Allison R. Moreno, Catherine A. Garcia, Alyse A. Larkin, Jenna A. Lee, Wei-Lei Wang, J. Keith Moore, Francois W. Primeau, and Adam C. Martiny --------------------------------------------------------------- Social Sciences Anthropology [Restoration of fragmentary Babylonian texts using recurrent neural networks]( Ethan Fetaya, Yonatan Lifshitz, Elad Aaron, and Shai Gordin Political Sciences [Ethnic antagonism erodes Republicans’ commitment to democracy]( Larry M. Bartels Psychological and Cognitive Sciences [Statistical prediction of the future impairs episodic encoding of the present]( Brynn E. Sherman and Nicholas B. Turk-Browne [Protecting memory from misinformation: Warnings modulate cortical reinstatement during memory retrieval]( Jessica M. Karanian, Nathaniel Rabb, Alia N. Wulff, McKinzey G. Torrance, Ayanna K. Thomas, and Elizabeth Race [People with disagreeable personalities (selfish, combative, and manipulative) do not have an advantage in pursuing power at work]( Cameron Anderson, Daron L. Sharps, Christopher J. Soto, and Oliver P. John Social Sciences [Human social preferences cluster and spread in the field]( Alexander Ehlert, Martin Kindschi, René Algesheimer, and Heiko Rauhut [Intergenerational resource sharing and mortality in a global perspective]( Tobias Vogt, Fanny Kluge, and Ronald Lee [The breakdown of antiracist norms: A natural experiment on hate speech after terrorist attacks]( Amalia Álvarez-Benjumea and Fabian Winter --------------------------------------------------------------- Biological Sciences Applied Biological Sciences [Next-generation gene drive for population modification of the malaria vector mosquito, Anopheles gambiae]( Rebeca Carballar-Lejarazú, Christian Ogaugwu, Taylor Tushar, Adam Kelsey, Thai Binh Pham, Jazmin Murphy, Hanno Schmidt, Yoosook Lee, Gregory C. Lanzaro, and Anthony A. James [Direct kinetic fingerprinting and digital counting of single protein molecules]( Tanmay Chatterjee, Achim Knappik, Erin Sandford, Muneesh Tewari, Sung Won Choi, William B. Strong, Evan P. Thrush, Kenneth J. Oh, Ning Liu, Nils G. Walter, and Alexander Johnson-Buck Biochemistry [Site-specific covalent labeling of large RNAs with nanoparticles empowered by expanded genetic alphabet transcription]( Yan Wang, Yaoyi Chen, Yanping Hu, and Xianyang Fang [RubyACRs, nonalgal anion channelrhodopsins with highly red-shifted absorption]( Elena G. Govorunova, Oleg A. Sineshchekov, Hai Li, Yumei Wang, Leonid S. Brown, and John L. Spudich Biophysics and Computational Biology [Stochastic reaction networks in dynamic compartment populations]( Lorenzo Duso and Christoph Zechner [Multiscale computation delivers organophosphorus reactivity and stereoselectivity to immunoglobulin scavengers]( Yuliana A. Mokrushina, Andrey V. Golovin, Ivan V. Smirnov, Spyros D. Chatziefthimiou, Anastasia V. Stepanova, Tatyana V. Bobik, Arthur O. Zalevsky, Alexander S. Zlobin, Kirill A. Konovalov, Stanislav S. Terekhov, Alexey V. Stepanov, Sofiya O. Pipiya, Olga G. Shamborant, Ekaterina Round, Alexey A. Belogurov Jr, Gleb Bourenkov, Alexander A. Makarov, Matthias Wilmanns, Jia Xie, G. Michael Blackburn, Alexander G. Gabibov, and Richard A. Lerner [The cryoelectron microscopy structure of the human CDK-activating kinase]( Basil J. Greber, Juan M. Perez-Bertoldi, Kif Lim, Anthony T. Iavarone, Daniel B. Toso, and Eva Nogales Ecology [Biotic rescaling reveals importance of species interactions for variation in biodiversity responses to climate change]( Vigdis Vandvik, Olav Skarpaas, Kari Klanderud, Richard J. Telford, Aud H. Halbritter, and Deborah E. Goldberg Environmental Sciences [Latitudinal gradient in the respiration quotient and the implications for ocean oxygen availability]( Allison R. Moreno, Catherine A. Garcia, Alyse A. Larkin, Jenna A. Lee, Wei-Lei Wang, J. Keith Moore, Francois W. Primeau, and Adam C. Martiny Evolution [Human social preferences cluster and spread in the field]( Alexander Ehlert, Martin Kindschi, René Algesheimer, and Heiko Rauhut [CO2 reduction driven by a pH gradient]( Reuben Hudson, Ruvan de Graaf, Mari Strandoo Rodin, Aya Ohno, Nick Lane, Shawn E. McGlynn, Yoichi M. A. Yamada, Ryuhei Nakamura, Laura M. Barge, Dieter Braun, and Victor Sojo [The genetic basis for PRC1 complex diversity emerged early in animal evolution]( James M. Gahan, Fabian Rentzsch, and Christine E. Schnitzler Genetics [Multiplexed conditional genome editing with Cas12a in Drosophila]( Fillip Port, Maja Starostecka, and Michael Boutros [POLQ suppresses interhomolog recombination and loss of heterozygosity at targeted DNA breaks]( Luther Davis, Kevin J. Khoo, Yinbo Zhang, and Nancy Maizels Immunology and Inflammation [Visualization of human T lymphocyte-mediated eradication of cancer cells in vivo]( Xingkang He, Xin Yin, Jing Wu, Stina L. Wickström, Yanhong Duo, Qiqiao Du, Shuhang Qin, Shuzhong Yao, Xu Jing, Kayoko Hosaka, Jieyu Wu, Lasse D. Jensen, Andreas Lundqvist, Alexander I. Salter, Lars Bräutigam, Wei Tao, Yuguo Chen, Rolf Kiessling, and Yihai Cao [B cells expressing authentic naive human VRC01-class BCRs can be recruited to germinal centers and affinity mature in multiple independent mouse models]( Deli Huang, Robert K. Abbott, Colin Havenar-Daughton, Patrick D. Skog, Rita Al-Kolla, Bettina Groschel, Tanya R. Blane, Sergey Menis, Jenny Tuyet Tran, Theresa C. Thinnes, Sabrina A. Volpi, Alessia Liguori, Torben Schiffner, Sophia M. Villegas, Oleksandr Kalyuzhniy, Mark Pintea, James E. Voss, Nicole Phelps, Ryan Tingle, Alberto R. Rodriguez, Greg Martin, Sergey Kupryianov, Allan deCamp, William R. Schief, David Nemazee, and Shane Crotty [A pathogenic and clonally expanded B cell transcriptome in active multiple sclerosis]( Akshaya Ramesh, Ryan D. Schubert, Ariele L. Greenfield, Ravi Dandekar, Rita Loudermilk, Joseph J. Sabatino Jr, Matthew T. Koelzer, Edwina B. Tran, Kanishka Koshal, Kicheol Kim, Anne-Katrin Pröbstel, Debarko Banerji, University of California, San Francisco MS-EPIC Team, Chu-Yueh Guo, Ari J. Green, Riley M. Bove, Joseph L. DeRisi, Jeffrey M. Gelfand, Bruce A. C. Cree, Scott S. Zamvil, Sergio E. Baranzini, Stephen L. Hauser, and Michael R. Wilson [Human γδ T cells recognize CD1b by two distinct mechanisms]( Josephine F. Reijneveld, Tonatiuh A. Ocampo, Adam Shahine, Benjamin S. Gully, Pierre Vantourout, Adrian C. Hayday, Jamie Rossjohn, D. Branch Moody, and Ildiko Van Rhijn [DNA-PKcs phosphorylation at the T2609 cluster alters the repair pathway choice during immunoglobulin class switch recombination]( Jennifer L. Crowe, Xiaobin S. Wang, Zhengping Shao, Brian J. Lee, Verna M. Estes, and Shan Zha Medical Sciences [A network-based explanation of why most COVID-19 infection curves are linear]( Stefan Thurner, Peter Klimek, and Rudolf Hanel [Rapid isothermal amplification and portable detection system for SARS-CoV-2]( Anurup Ganguli, Ariana Mostafa, Jacob Berger, Mehmet Y. Aydin, Fu Sun, Sarah A. Stewart de Ramirez, Enrique Valera, Brian T. Cunningham, William P. King, and Rashid Bashir [Relationship of estrogen synthesis capacity in the brain with obesity and self-control in men and women]( Anat Biegon, Nelly Alia-Klein, David L. Alexoff, Joanna S. Fowler, Sung Won Kim, Jean Logan, Deborah Pareto, Rebecca Preston-Campbell, Gene-Jack Wang, and Tom Hildebrandt Microbiology [Avoiding ventilator-associated pneumonia: Curcumin-functionalized endotracheal tube and photodynamic action]( Amanda C. Zangirolami, Lucas D. Dias, Kate C. Blanco, Carolina S. Vinagreiro, Natalia M. Inada, Luis G. Arnaut, Mariette M. Pereira, and Vanderlei S. Bagnato [Engineering carboxylic acid reductase for selective synthesis of medium-chain fatty alcohols in yeast]( Yating Hu, Zhiwei Zhu, David Gradischnig, Margit Winkler, Jens Nielsen, and Verena Siewers [Early evolutionary loss of the lipid A modifying enzyme PagP resulting in innate immune evasion in Yersinia pestis]( Courtney E. Chandler, Erin M. Harberts, Mark R. Pelletier, Iyarit Thaipisuttikul, Jace W. Jones, Adeline M. Hajjar, Jason W. Sahl, David R. Goodlett, Aaron C. Pride, David A. Rasko, M. Stephen Trent, Russell E. Bishop, and Robert K. Ernst [Glycosylation-dependent opsonophagocytic activity of staphylococcal protein A antibodies]( Xinhai Chen, Miaomiao Shi, Xin Tong, Hwan Keun Kim, Lai-Xi Wang, Olaf Schneewind, and Dominique Missiakas [Developing a population-state decision system for intelligently reprogramming extracellular electron transfer in Shewanella oneidensis]( Feng-He Li, Qiang Tang, Yang-Yang Fan, Yang Li, Jie Li, Jing-Hang Wu, Chen-Fei Luo, Hong Sun, Wen-Wei Li, and Han-Qing Yu Neuroscience [Statistical prediction of the future impairs episodic encoding of the present]( Brynn E. Sherman and Nicholas B. Turk-Browne [Visual experience is not necessary for the development of face-selectivity in the lateral fusiform gyrus]( N. Apurva Ratan Murty, Santani Teng, David Beeler, Anna Mynick, Aude Oliva, and Nancy Kanwisher [Low-dimensional dynamics for working memory and time encoding]( Christopher J. Cueva, Alex Saez, Encarni Marcos, Aldo Genovesio, Mehrdad Jazayeri, Ranulfo Romo, C. Daniel Salzman, Michael N. Shadlen, and Stefano Fusi [Dark noise and retinal degeneration from D190N-rhodopsin]( Daniel Silverman, Zuying Chai, Wendy W. S. Yue, Sravani Keerthi Ramisetty, Sowmya Bekshe Lokappa, Kazumi Sakai, Rikard Frederiksen, Parinaz Bina, Stephen H. Tsang, Takahiro Yamashita, Jeannie Chen, and King-Wai Yau [Mechanism for analogous illusory motion perception in flies and humans]( Margarida Agrochao, Ryosuke Tanaka, Emilio Salazar-Gatzimas, and Damon A. Clark [Fusogen-mediated neuron−neuron fusion disrupts neural circuit connectivity and alters animal behavior]( Rosina Giordano-Santini, Eva Kaulich, Kate M. Galbraith, Fiona K. Ritchie, Wei Wang, Zhaoyu Li, and Massimo A. Hilliard [Finding the neural correlates of collaboration using a three-person fMRI hyperscanning paradigm]( Hua Xie, Iliana I. Karipidis, Amber Howell, Meredith Schreier, Kristen E. Sheau, Mai K. Manchanda, Rafi Ayub, Gary H. Glover, Malte Jung, Allan L. Reiss, and Manish Saggar [CRL5-dependent regulation of the small GTPases ARL4C and ARF6 controls hippocampal morphogenesis]( Jisoo S. Han, Keiko Hino, Wenzhe Li, Raenier V. Reyes, Cesar P. Canales, Adam M. Miltner, Yasmin Haddadi, Junqing Sun, Chao-Yin Chen, Anna La Torre, and Sergi Simó [Active vision shapes and coordinates flight motor responses in flies]( Benjamin Cellini and Jean-Michel Mongeau Pharmacology [Analysis of β2AR-Gs and β2AR-Gi complex formation by NMR spectroscopy]( Xiuyan Ma, Yunfei Hu, Hossein Batebi, Jie Heng, Jun Xu, Xiangyu Liu, Xiaogang Niu, Hongwei Li, Peter W. Hildebrand, Changwen Jin, and Brian K. Kobilka [Hypnotic effect of thalidomide is independent of teratogenic ubiquitin/proteasome pathway]( Yuki Hirose, Tomohiro Kitazono, Maiko Sezaki, Manabu Abe, Kenji Sakimura, Hiromasa Funato, Hiroshi Handa, Kaspar E. Vogt, and Masashi Yanagisawa Physiology [Characterization and validation of a preventative therapy for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in a murine model of the disease]( Helena M. Viola, Ashay A. Shah, Victoria P. A. Johnstone, Henrietta Cserne Szappanos, Mark P. Hodson, and Livia C. Hool Plant Biology [Cuscuta australis (dodder) parasite eavesdrops on the host plants’ FT signals to flower]( Guojing Shen, Nian Liu, Jingxiong Zhang, Yuxing Xu, Ian T. {NAME}, and Jianqiang Wu [The phosphatidylethanolamine-binding protein DTH1 mediates degradation of lipid droplets in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii]( Jihyeon Lee, Yasuyo Yamaoka, Fantao Kong, Caroline Cagnon, Audrey Beyly-Adriano, Sunghoon Jang, Peng Gao, Byung-Ho Kang, Yonghua Li-Beisson, and Youngsook Lee [Structures of Arabidopsis thaliana oxygen-sensing plant cysteine oxidases 4 and 5 enable targeted manipulation of their activity]( Mark D. White, Laura Dalle Carbonare, Mikel Lavilla Puerta, Sergio Iacopino, Martin Edwards, Kate Dunne, Elisabete Pires, Colin Levy, Michael A. McDonough, Francesco Licausi, and Emily Flashman [Supergene evolution via stepwise duplications and neofunctionalization of a floral-organ identity gene]( Cuong Nguyen Huu, Barbara Keller, Elena Conti, Christian Kappel, and Michael Lenhard [Femtosecond visible transient absorption spectroscopy of chlorophyll-f-containing photosystem II]( Noura Zamzam, Rafal Rakowski, Marius Kaucikas, Gabriel Dorlhiac, Sefania Viola, Dennis J. Nürnberg, Andrea Fantuzzi, A. William Rutherford, and Jasper J. van Thor [Plant expression of NifD protein variants resistant to mitochondrial degradation]( Robert S. Allen, Christina M. Gregg, Shoko Okada, Amratha Menon, Dawar Hussain, Vanessa Gillespie, Ema Johnston, Rosangela Devilla, Andrew C. Warden, Matthew Taylor, Keren Byrne, Michelle Colgrave, and Craig C. Wood Population Biology [Fine-scale heterogeneity in Schistosoma mansoni force of infection measured through antibody response]( Benjamin F. Arnold, Henry Kanyi, Sammy M. Njenga, Fredrick O. Rawago, Jeffrey W. Priest, W. Evan Secor, Patrick J. Lammie, Kimberly Y. Won, and Maurice R. Odiere Systems Biology [Kinetic profiling of metabolic specialists demonstrates stability and consistency of in vivo enzyme turnover numbers]( David Heckmann, Anaamika Campeau, Colton J. Lloyd, Patrick V. Phaneuf, Ying Hefner, Marvic Carrillo-Terrazas, Adam M. Feist, David J. Gonzalez, and Bernhard O. Palsson --------------------------------------------------------------- Corrections [Correction for de Beco et al., Endocytosis is required for E-cadherin redistribution at mature adherens junctions]( [Correction for Chen et al., Identification of fusion genes and characterization of transcriptome features in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia]( --------------------------------------------------------------- SI Corrections [Correction to Supporting Information for Roudnicky et al., Inducers of the endothelial cell barrier identified through chemogenomic screening in genome-edited hPSC-endothelial cells]( [Correction to Supporting Information for Sun et al., Prevalent Eurasian avian-like H1N1 swine influenza virus with 2009 pandemic viral genes facilitating human infection]( [Cover] --------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to {EMAIL}. [Unsubscribe]( from or [edit]( your subscription for this service. 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