PNAS Table of Contents for February 16, 2021; Vol. 118, No. 7 is now complete

[PNAS] [PNAS News Feature: Tracing Gold's Cosmic Origin Story](/cgi/adclick/?ad=55598&adclick=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pnas.org%2Fcontent%2F118%2F4%2Fe2026110118)   [February 16, 2021; Vol. 118, No. 7]( ) This Week in PNAS [In This Issue]( This week's research highlights --------------------------------------------------------------- Opinion [Opinion: A better approach for dealing with reproducibility and replicability in science]( James D. Nichols, Madan K. Oli, William. L. Kendall, and G. Scott Boomer Leading scientists discuss current issues --------------------------------------------------------------- Retrospective [Arthur Ashkin: Father of the optical tweezers]( René-Jean Essiambre --------------------------------------------------------------- Commentaries [A new lease on life for an HIV-neutralizing antibody class and vaccine target]( Dennis R. Burton [Cyanobacteria provide a new paradigm in the regulation of cofactor dependence]( Crysten E. Blaby-Haas [Life in silico: Are we close yet?]( Dmitrii E. Makarov [Fragile superconductivity at high magnetic fields]( Michael R. Norman --------------------------------------------------------------- Perspective [Cancer recurrence and lethality are enabled by enhanced survival and reversible cell cycle arrest of polyaneuploid cells]( K. J. Pienta, E. U. Hammarlund, J. S. Brown, S. R. Amend, and R. M. Axelrod --------------------------------------------------------------- Brief Reports [Shared partisanship dramatically increases social tie formation in a Twitter field experiment]( Mohsen Mosleh, Cameron Martel, Dean Eckles, and David G. Rand [A new role for joint mobility in reconstructing vertebrate locomotor evolution]( Armita R. Manafzadeh, Robert E. Kambic, and Stephen M. Gatesy --------------------------------------------------------------- Physical Sciences Applied Physical Sciences [Entropic formation of a thermodynamically stable colloidal quasicrystal with negligible phason strain]( Kwanghwi Je, Sangmin Lee, Erin G. Teich, Michael Engel, and Sharon C. Glotzer Biophysics and Computational Biology [Characterization of the strain-rate–dependent mechanical response of single cell–cell junctions]( Amir Monemian Esfahani, Jordan Rosenbohm, Bahareh Tajvidi Safa, Nickolay V. Lavrik, Grayson Minnick, Quan Zhou, Fang Kong, Xiaowei Jin, Eunju Kim, Ying Liu, Yongfeng Lu, Jung Yul Lim, James K. Wahl III, Ming Dao, Changjin Huang, and Ruiguo Yang [Chromatophores efficiently promote light-driven ATP synthesis and DNA transcription inside hybrid multicompartment artificial cells]( Emiliano Altamura, Paola Albanese, Roberto Marotta, Francesco Milano, Michele Fiore, Massimo Trotta, Pasquale Stano, and Fabio Mavelli [Learning the dynamics of cell–cell interactions in confined cell migration]( David B. Brückner, Nicolas Arlt, Alexandra Fink, Pierre Ronceray, Joachim O. Rädler, and Chase P. Broedersz Chemistry [Operando unraveling photothermal-promoted dynamic active-sites generation in NiFe2O4 for markedly enhanced oxygen evolution]( Likun Gao, Xun Cui, Zewei Wang, Christopher D. Sewell, Zili Li, Shuang Liang, Mingyue Zhang, Jian Li, Yingjie Hu, and Zhiqun Lin Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences [Reductions in NO2 burden over north equatorial Africa from decline in biomass burning in spite of growing fossil fuel use, 2005 to 2017]( Jonathan E. Hickman, Niels Andela, Kostas Tsigaridis, Corinne Galy-Lacaux, Money Ossohou, and Susanne E. Bauer [Hematite reconstruction of Late Triassic hydroclimate over the Colorado Plateau]( Christopher J. Lepre and Paul E. Olsen Engineering [Nonsurgical treatment of skin cancer with local delivery of bioadhesive nanoparticles]( Jamie K. Hu, Hee-Won Suh, Munibah Qureshi, Julia M. Lewis, Sharon Yaqoob, Zoe M. Moscato, Sofia Griff, Alison K. Lee, Emily S. Yin, W. Mark Saltzman, and Michael Girardi [A coating strategy to achieve effective local charge separation for photocatalytic coevolution]( Tianshuo Zhao, Rito Yanagi, Yijie Xu, Yulian He, Yuqi Song, Meiqi Yang, and Shu Hu [Exploring the property space of periodic cellular structures based on crystal networks]( Thomas S. Lumpe and Tino Stankovic Environmental Sciences [Anthropogenic climate change is worsening North American pollen seasons]( William R. L. Anderegg, John T. Abatzoglou, Leander D. L. Anderegg, Leonard Bielory, Patrick L. Kinney, and Lewis Ziska [Drought stress and hurricane defoliation influence mountain clouds and moisture recycling in a tropical forest]( Martha A. Scholl, Maoya Bassiouni, and Angel J. Torres-Sánchez Physics [Unconventional quantum vortex matter state hosts quantum oscillations in the underdoped high-temperature cuprate superconductors]( Yu-Te Hsu, Máté Hartstein, Alexander J. Davies, Alexander J. Hickey, Mun K. Chan, Juan Porras, Toshinao Loew, Sofia V. Taylor, Hsu Liu, Alexander G. Eaton, Matthieu Le Tacon, Huakun Zuo, Jinhua Wang, Zengwei Zhu, Gilbert G. Lonzarich, Bernhard Keimer, Neil Harrison, and Suchitra E. Sebastian [Anomalous vortex liquid in charge-ordered cuprate superconductors]( Yu-Te Hsu, Maarten Berben, Matija Čulo, Seiji Adachi, Takeshi Kondo, Tsuneshiro Takeuchi, Yue Wang, Steffen Wiedmann, Stephen M. Hayden, and Nigel E. Hussey [Decoding ultrafast polarization responses in lead halide perovskites by the two-dimensional optical Kerr effect]( Sebastian F. Maehrlein, Prakriti P. Joshi, Lucas Huber, Feifan Wang, Marie Cherasse, Yufeng Liu, Dominik M. Juraschek, Edoardo Mosconi, Daniele Meggiolaro, Filippo De Angelis, and X.-Y. Zhu Sustainability Science [Anthropogenic climate change is worsening North American pollen seasons]( William R. L. Anderegg, John T. Abatzoglou, Leander D. L. Anderegg, Leonard Bielory, Patrick L. Kinney, and Lewis Ziska [Large-scale commodity agriculture exacerbates the climatic impacts of Amazonian deforestation]( Eduardo Eiji Maeda, Temesgen Alemayehu Abera, Mika Siljander, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão, Yhasmin Mendes de Moura, and Janne Heiskanen --------------------------------------------------------------- Social Sciences Psychological and Cognitive Sciences [Language left behind on social media exposes the emotional and cognitive costs of a romantic breakup]( Sarah Seraj, Kate G. Blackburn, and James W. Pennebaker [Early phonetic learning without phonetic categories: Insights from large-scale simulations on realistic input]( Thomas Schatz, Naomi H. Feldman, Sharon Goldwater, Xuan-Nga Cao, and Emmanuel Dupoux [Selective modulation of interhemispheric connectivity by transcranial alternating current stimulation influences binaural integration]( Basil C. Preisig, Lars Riecke, Matthias J. Sjerps, Anne Kösem, Benjamin R. Kop, Bob Bramson, Peter Hagoort, and Alexis Hervais-Adelman Social Sciences [Skills-adjusted human capital shows rising global gap]( Wolfgang Lutz, Claudia Reiter, Caner Özdemir, Dilek Yildiz, Raquel Guimaraes, and Anne Goujon [Using machine learning to estimate the effect of racial segregation on COVID-19 mortality in the United States]( Gerard Torrats-Espinosa [Network hubs cease to be influential in the presence of low levels of advertising]( Gabriel Rossman and Jacob C. Fisher [Global citation inequality is on the rise]( Mathias Wullum Nielsen and Jens Peter Andersen --------------------------------------------------------------- Biological Sciences Anthropology [The genomics of ecological flexibility, large brains, and long lives in capuchin monkeys revealed with fecalFACS]( Joseph D. Orkin, Michael J. Montague, Daniela Tejada-Martinez, Marc de Manuel, Javier del Campo, Saul Cheves Hernandez, Anthony Di Fiore, Claudia Fontsere, Jason A. Hodgson, Mareike C. Janiak, Lukas F. K. Kuderna, Esther Lizano, Maria Pia Martin, Yoshihito Niimura, George H. Perry, Carmen Soto Valverde, Jia Tang, Wesley C. Warren, João Pedro de Magalhães, Shoji Kawamura, Tomàs Marquès-Bonet, Roman Krawetz, and Amanda D. Melin Biochemistry [Structure of the SARS-CoV-2 RNA-dependent RNA polymerase in the presence of favipiravir-RTP]( Katerina Naydenova, Kyle W. Muir, Long-Fei Wu, Ziguo Zhang, Francesca Coscia, Mathew J. Peet, Pablo Castro-Hartmann, Pu Qian, Kasim Sader, Kyle Dent, Dari Kimanius, John D. Sutherland, Jan Löwe, David Barford, and Christopher J. Russo Biophysics and Computational Biology [Characterization of the strain-rate–dependent mechanical response of single cell–cell junctions]( Amir Monemian Esfahani, Jordan Rosenbohm, Bahareh Tajvidi Safa, Nickolay V. Lavrik, Grayson Minnick, Quan Zhou, Fang Kong, Xiaowei Jin, Eunju Kim, Ying Liu, Yongfeng Lu, Jung Yul Lim, James K. Wahl III, Ming Dao, Changjin Huang, and Ruiguo Yang [Torsional stress can regulate the unwrapping of two outer half superhelical turns of nucleosomal DNA]( Hisashi Ishida and Hidetoshi Kono Cell Biology [The Myc-associated zinc finger protein (MAZ) works together with CTCF to control cohesin positioning and genome organization]( Tiaojiang Xiao, Xin Li, and Gary Felsenfeld [PON2 subverts metabolic gatekeeper functions in B cells to promote leukemogenesis]( Lili Pan, Chao Hong, Lai N. Chan, Gang Xiao, Parmanand Malvi, Mark E. Robinson, Huimin Geng, Srinivasa T. Reddy, Jaewoong Lee, Vishal Khairnar, Kadriye Nehir Cosgun, Liang Xu, Kohei Kume, Teresa Sadras, Shaoyuan Wang, Narendra Wajapeyee, and Markus Müschen [Widespread polycistronic gene expression in green algae]( Sean D. Gallaher, Rory J. Craig, Iniyan Ganesan, Samuel O. Purvine, Sean R. McCorkle, Jane Grimwood, Daniela Strenkert, Lital Davidi, Melissa S. Roth, Tim L. Jeffers, Mary S. Lipton, Krishna K. Niyogi, Jeremy Schmutz, Steven M. Theg, Crysten E. Blaby-Haas, and Sabeeha S. Merchant [Chemokine-biased robust self-organizing polarization of migrating cells in vivo]( Adan Olguin-Olguin, Anne Aalto, Benoît Maugis, Aleix Boquet-Pujadas, Dennis Hoffmann, Laura Ermlich, Timo Betz, Nir S. Gov, Michal Reichman-Fried, and Erez Raz [Local translation in nuclear condensate amyloid bodies]( Phaedra R. Theodoridis, Michael Bokros, Dane Marijan, Nathan C. Balukoff, Dazhi Wang, Chloe C. Kirk, Taylor D. Budine, Harris D. Goldsmith, Miling Wang, Timothy E. Audas, and Stephen Lee [Critical role of Aquaporin-1 and telocytes in infantile hemangioma response to propranolol beta blockade]( François Moisan, Sandra Oucherif, Priscilla Kaulanjan-Checkmodine, Sorilla Prey, Benoît Rousseau, Marc Bonneu, Stéphane Claverol, Etienne Gontier, Sabrina Lacomme, Lea Dousset, Thierry Couffinhal, Jerome Toutain, Maya Loot, Muriel Cario-André, Marie-Laure Jullié, Christine Léauté-Labrèze, Alain Taieb, and Hamid Reza Rezvani [SOX2 is required independently in both stem and differentiated cells for pituitary tumorigenesis in p27-null mice]( Veronica Moncho-Amor, Probir Chakravarty, Christophe Galichet, Ander Matheu, Robin Lovell-Badge, and Karine Rizzoti Developmental Biology [The Krüppel-like factor Cabut has cell cycle regulatory properties similar to E2F1]( Peng Zhang, Alexia J. Katzaroff, Laura A. Buttitta, Yiqin Ma, Huaqi Jiang, Derek W. Nickerson, Jan Inge Øvrebø, and Bruce A. Edgar Ecology [Global inequities and political borders challenge nature conservation under climate change]( Mark A. Titley, Stuart H. M. Butchart, Victoria R. Jones, Mark J. Whittingham, and Stephen G. Willis [A switch to feeding on cycads generates parallel accelerated evolution of toxin tolerance in two clades of Eumaeus caterpillars (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)]( Robert K. Robbins, Qian Cong, Jing Zhang, Jinhui Shen, Julia Quer Riera, Debra Murray, Robert C. Busby, Christophe Faynel, Winnie Hallwachs, Daniel H. Janzen, and Nick V. Grishin [Functional rarity and evenness are key facets of biodiversity to boost multifunctionality]( Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Nicolas Gross, Hugo Saiz, Fernando T. Maestre, Sonia Ruiz, Marina Dacal, Sergio Asensio, Victoria Ochoa, Beatriz Gozalo, Johannes H. C. Cornelissen, Lucas Deschamps, Carlos García, Vincent Maire, Rubén Milla, Norma Salinas, Juntao Wang, Brajesh K. Singh, and Pablo García-Palacios [Global tree intrinsic water use efficiency is enhanced by increased atmospheric CO2 and modulated by climate and plant functional types]( Justin M. Mathias and Richard B. Thomas Evolution [The feeding system of Tiktaalik roseae: an intermediate between suction feeding and biting]( Justin B. Lemberg, Edward B. Daeschler, and Neil H. Shubin [A global phylogeny of turtles reveals a burst of climate-associated diversification on continental margins]( Robert C. Thomson, Phillip Q. Spinks, and H. Bradley Shaffer [The evolution of developmental thresholds and reaction norms for age and size at maturity]( Viktor Nilsson-Örtman and Locke Rowe Genetics [The mop1 mutation affects the recombination landscape in maize]( Meixia Zhao, Jia-Chi Ku, Beibei Liu, Diya Yang, Liangwei Yin, Tyshawn J. Ferrell, Claire E. Stoll, Wei Guo, Xinyan Zhang, Dafang Wang, Chung-Ju Rachel Wang, and Damon Lisch Immunology and Inflammation [CD20 as a gatekeeper of the resting state of human B cells]( Kathrin Kläsener, Julia Jellusova, Geoffroy Andrieux, Ulrich Salzer, Chiara Böhler, Sebastian N. Steiner, Jonas B. Albinus, Marco Cavallari, Beatrix Süß, Reinhard E. Voll, Melanie Boerries, Bernd Wollscheid, and Michael Reth [Deficiency of the novel high mobility group protein HMGXB4 protects against systemic inflammation-induced endotoxemia in mice]( Xiangqin He, Kunzhe Dong, Jian Shen, Guoqing Hu, Jinhua Liu, Xiuhua Kang, Liang Wang, Reem T. Atawia, Islam Osman, Robert W. Caldwell, Meixiang Xiang, Wei Zhang, Zeqi Zheng, Liwu Li, David J. R. Fulton, Keyu Deng, Hongbo Xin, and Jiliang Zhou [A conserved long noncoding RNA, GAPLINC, modulates the immune response during endotoxic shock]( Apple Cortez Vollmers, Sergio Covarrubias, Daisy Kuang, Aaron Shulkin, Justin Iwuagwu, Sol Katzman, Ran Song, Kasthuribai Viswanathan, Christopher Vollmers, Edward Wakeland, and Susan Carpenter Medical Sciences [Nonsurgical treatment of skin cancer with local delivery of bioadhesive nanoparticles]( Jamie K. Hu, Hee-Won Suh, Munibah Qureshi, Julia M. Lewis, Sharon Yaqoob, Zoe M. Moscato, Sofia Griff, Alison K. Lee, Emily S. Yin, W. Mark Saltzman, and Michael Girardi [The mitochondrial thioredoxin reductase system (TrxR2) in vascular endothelium controls peroxynitrite levels and tissue integrity]( Petra Kameritsch, Miriam Singer, Christoph Nuernbergk, Natalia Rios, Aníbal M. Reyes, Kjestine Schmidt, Julian Kirsch, Holger Schneider, Susanna Müller, Kristin Pogoda, Ruicen Cui, Thomas Kirchner, Cor de Wit, Bärbel Lange-Sperandio, Ulrich Pohl, Marcus Conrad, Rafael Radi, and Heike Beck Microbiology [Molecular reprogramming and phenotype switching in Staphylococcus aureus lead to high antibiotic persistence and affect therapy success]( Markus Huemer, Srikanth Mairpady Shambat, Judith Bergada-Pijuan, Sandra Söderholm, Mathilde Boumasmoud, Clément Vulin, Alejandro Gómez-Mejia, Minia Antelo Varela, Vishwachi Tripathi, Sandra Götschi, Ewerton Marques Maggio, Barbara Hasse, Silvio D. Brugger, Dirk Bumann, Reto A. Schuepbach, and Annelies S. Zinkernagel [A novel stabilization mechanism for the type VI secretion system sheath]( Patricia Bernal, R. Christopher D. Furniss, Selina Fecht, Rhoda C. Y. Leung, Livia Spiga, Despoina A. I. Mavridou, and Alain Filloux [Staphylococcal protein A inhibits complement activation by interfering with IgG hexamer formation]( Ana Rita Cruz, Maurits A. den Boer, Jürgen Strasser, Seline A. Zwarthoff, Frank J. Beurskens, Carla J. C. de Haas, Piet C. Aerts, Guanbo Wang, Rob N. de Jong, Fabio Bagnoli, Jos A. G. van Strijp, Kok P. M. van Kessel, Janine Schuurman, Johannes Preiner, Albert J. R. Heck, and Suzan H. M. Rooijakkers [Dissecting serotype-specific contributions to live oral cholera vaccine efficacy]( Brandon Sit, Bolutife Fakoya, Ting Zhang, Gabriel Billings, and Matthew K. Waldor Neuroscience [Selective modulation of interhemispheric connectivity by transcranial alternating current stimulation influences binaural integration]( Basil C. Preisig, Lars Riecke, Matthias J. Sjerps, Anne Kösem, Benjamin R. Kop, Bob Bramson, Peter Hagoort, and Alexis Hervais-Adelman [Secretagogin marks amygdaloid PKCδ interneurons and modulates NMDA receptor availability]( Zsófia Hevesi, Dóra Zelena, Roman A. Romanov, János Hanics, Attila Ignácz, Alice Zambon, Daniela D. Pollak, Dávid Lendvai, Katalin Schlett, Miklós Palkovits, Tibor Harkany, Tomas G. M. Hökfelt, and Alán Alpár [Basal forebrain mediates prosocial behavior via disinhibition of midbrain dopamine neurons]( Jun Wang, Jie Li, Qian Yang, Ya-Kai Xie, Ya-Lan Wen, Zhen-Zhong Xu, Yulong Li, Tianle Xu, Zhi-Ying Wu, Shumin Duan, and Han Xu [Crossed–uncrossed projections from primate retina are adapted to disparities of natural scenes]( Agostino Gibaldi, Noah C. Benson, and Martin S. Banks [Multisensory interactions regulate feeding behavior in Drosophila]( Soo Min Oh, Kyunghwa Jeong, Jeong Taeg Seo, and Seok Jun Moon [Prolonged anesthesia alters brain synaptic architecture]( Michael Wenzel, Alexander Leunig, Shuting Han, Darcy S. Peterka, and Rafael Yuste [Placental genomic risk scores and early neurodevelopmental outcomes]( Gianluca Ursini, Giovanna Punzi, Benjamin W. Langworthy, Qiang Chen, Kai Xia, Emil A. Cornea, Barbara D. Goldman, Martin A. Styner, Rebecca C. Knickmeyer, John H. Gilmore, and Daniel R. Weinberger Physiology [METTL3-dependent N6-methyladenosine RNA modification mediates the atherogenic inflammatory cascades in vascular endothelium]( Chian-Shiu Chien, Julie Yi-Shuan Li, Yueh Chien, Mong-Lien Wang, Aliaksandr A. Yarmishyn, Ping-Hsing Tsai, Chi-Chang Juan, Phu Nguyen, Hao-min Cheng, Teh-Ia Huo, Shih-Hwa Chiou, and Shu Chien [β-Adrenergic control of sarcolemmal CaV1.2 abundance by small GTPase Rab proteins]( Silvia G. del Villar, Taylor L. Voelker, Maartje Westhoff, Gopireddy R. Reddy, Heather C. Spooner, Manuel F. Navedo, Eamonn J. Dickson, and Rose E. Dixon [A single historical substitution drives an increase in acetylcholine receptor complexity]( Johnathon R. Emlaw, Christian J. G. Tessier, Gregory D. McCluskey, Melissa S. McNulty, Yusuf Sheikh, Kelly M. Burkett, Maria Musgaard, and Corrie J. B. daCosta Plant Biology [Gene duplication at the Fascicled ear1 locus controls the fate of inflorescence meristem cells in maize]( Yanfang Du, China Lunde, Yunfu Li, David Jackson, Sarah Hake, and Zuxin Zhang Sustainability Science [Reductions in NO2 burden over north equatorial Africa from decline in biomass burning in spite of growing fossil fuel use, 2005 to 2017]( Jonathan E. Hickman, Niels Andela, Kostas Tsigaridis, Corinne Galy-Lacaux, Money Ossohou, and Susanne E. Bauer [Global inequities and political borders challenge nature conservation under climate change]( Mark A. Titley, Stuart H. M. Butchart, Victoria R. Jones, Mark J. Whittingham, and Stephen G. Willis Systems Biology [Chromatophores efficiently promote light-driven ATP synthesis and DNA transcription inside hybrid multicompartment artificial cells]( Emiliano Altamura, Paola Albanese, Roberto Marotta, Francesco Milano, Michele Fiore, Massimo Trotta, Pasquale Stano, and Fabio Mavelli [Hormone seasonality in medical records suggests circannual endocrine circuits]( Avichai Tendler, Alon Bar, Netta Mendelsohn-Cohen, Omer Karin, Yael Korem Kohanim, Lior Maimon, Tomer Milo, Moriya Raz, Avi Mayo, Amos Tanay, and Uri Alon --------------------------------------------------------------- Corrections [Correction for Li et al., Imprinting of the human L3MBTL gene, a polycomb family member located in a region of chromosome 20 deleted in human myeloid malignancies]( [Correction for Bell et al., In silico design and validation of high-affinity RNA aptamers targeting epithelial cellular adhesion molecule dimers]( [Correction for Aras et al., Mitochondrial Nuclear Retrograde Regulator 1 (MNRR1) rescues the cellular phenotype of MELAS by inducing homeostatic mechanisms]( [Cover] --------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to {EMAIL}. 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