PNAS Table of Contents for March 23, 2021; Vol. 118, No. 12 is now complete

[PNAS] [PNAS congratulates 2020 Cozzarelli Prize winners](/cgi/adclick/?ad=55685&adclick=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pnas.org%2Fpage%2Fabout%2Fcozzarelli-prize)   [March 23, 2021; Vol. 118, No. 12]( ) This Week in PNAS [In This Issue]( This week's research highlights --------------------------------------------------------------- Core Concepts [Core Concept: Bioplastics offer carbon-cutting advantages but are no panacea]( M. Mitchell Waldrop A brief introduction to emerging topics in science --------------------------------------------------------------- QnAs [QnAs with Kenneth W. Kinzler]( Sandeep Ravindran Interviews with leading scientific researchers and newsmakers --------------------------------------------------------------- Retrospective [Watt W. Webb: His measurements of the seemingly inaccessible broadened the horizons of biophysics]( Elliot Elson --------------------------------------------------------------- Profile [Profile of Judy Lieberman]( Jennifer Viegas The life and work of NAS members --------------------------------------------------------------- Commentaries [Adult specifier E93 takes control of reproductive cyclicity in mosquitoes]( David Martín [Learning active nematics one step at a time]( Anna Frishman and Kinneret Keren --------------------------------------------------------------- Letters [Exploring sexual orientation beyond genital arousal: Using large-scale online dating contact behavior to study male and female bisexuality]( Ho Fai Chan, Benno Torgler, and Stephen Whyte [Reply to Chan et al.: Better delineating female and male sexual orientation]( J. Jabbour and J. Michael Bailey [Relationship between wild-living and village-living dogs in New Guinea]( Peter D. Dwyer and Monica Minnegal [Reply to Dwyer and Minnegal: Genetics supersedes observational records regarding New Guinea canids]( Kylie M. Cairns, Suriani Surbakti, Heidi G. Parker, James K. McIntyre, Hendra K. Maury, Meagan Selvig, Margaretha Pangau-Adam, Apolo Safonpo, Leonardo Numberi, Dirk Y. P. Runtuboi, Elaine A. Ostrander, and Brian W. Davis --------------------------------------------------------------- Brief Reports [Paradoxical androgen receptor regulation by small molecule enantiomers]( Katherin Patsch, Chao Liu, Grzegorz Zapotoczny, Yuanye Sun, Harish Sura, Nolan Ung, Ren X. Sun, Bethany Haliday, Chen Yu, Mayada Aljehani, Jerry S. H. Lee, Boris A. Kashemirov, David B. Agus, Charles E. McKenna, and Daniel Ruderman [Using artificial intelligence to improve COVID-19 rapid diagnostic test result interpretation]( David-A. Mendels, Laurent Dortet, Cécile Emeraud, Saoussen Oueslati, Delphine Girlich, Jean-Baptiste Ronat, Sandrine Bernabeu, Silvestre Bahi, Gary J. H. Atkinson, and Thierry Naas [Spatial tuning of electrophysiological responses to multisensory stimuli reveals a primitive coding of the body boundaries in newborns]( Irene Ronga, Mattia Galigani, Valentina Bruno, Jean-Paul Noel, Andrea Gazzin, Cristina Perathoner, Andrea Serino, and Francesca Garbarini --------------------------------------------------------------- Physical Sciences Applied Physical Sciences [Mono- and bilayer smectic liquid crystal ordering in dense solutions of “gapped” DNA duplexes]( Prabesh Gyawali, Rony Saha, Gregory P. Smith, Miroslaw Salamonczyk, Prakash Kharel, Soumitra Basu, Ruipeng Li, Masafumi Fukuto, James T. Gleeson, Noel A. Clark, Antal Jákli, Hamza Balci, and Samuel Sprunt [Enhanced cavity coupling to silicon vacancies in 4H silicon carbide using laser irradiation and thermal annealing]( Mena N. Gadalla, Andrew S. Greenspon, Rodrick Kuate Defo, Xingyu Zhang, and Evelyn L. Hu [Chemical pumps and flexible sheets spontaneously form self-regulating oscillators in solution]( Raj Kumar Manna, Oleg E. Shklyaev, and Anna C. Balazs Biophysics and Computational Biology [Rules of contact inhibition of locomotion for cells on suspended nanofibers]( Jugroop Singh, Aldwin Pagulayan, Brian A. Camley, and Amrinder S. Nain [Protein design-scapes generated by microfluidic DNA assembly elucidate domain coupling in the bacterial histidine kinase CpxA]( Iain C. Clark, Bruk Mensa, Christopher J. Ochs, Nathan W. Schmidt, Marco Mravic, Francisco J. Quintana, William F. DeGrado, and Adam R. Abate [Molecular assemblies of the catalytic domain of SOS with KRas and oncogenic mutants]( Zahra Moghadamchargari, Mehdi Shirzadeh, Chang Liu, Samantha Schrecke, Charles Packianathan, David H. Russell, Minglei Zhao, and Arthur Laganowsky [Crystal structure of a far-red–sensing cyanobacteriochrome reveals an atypical bilin conformation and spectral tuning mechanism]( Sepalika Bandara, Nathan C. Rockwell, Xiaoli Zeng, Zhong Ren, Cong Wang, Heewhan Shin, Shelley S. Martin, Marcus V. Moreno, J. Clark Lagarias, and Xiaojing Yang [Computationally designed pyocyanin demethylase acts synergistically with tobramycin to kill recalcitrant Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms]( Chelsey M. VanDrisse, Rosalie Lipsh-Sokolik, Olga Khersonsky, Sarel J. Fleishman, and Dianne K. Newman [Neuronal circuits overcome imbalance in excitation and inhibition by adjusting connection numbers]( Nirit Sukenik, Oleg Vinogradov, Eyal Weinreb, Menahem Segal, Anna Levina, and Elisha Moses [The effective graph reveals redundancy, canalization, and control pathways in biochemical regulation and signaling]( Alexander J. Gates, Rion Brattig Correia, Xuan Wang, and Luis M. Rocha [Conductance selectivity of Na+ across the K+ channel via Na+ trapped in a tortuous trajectory]( Kenichiro Mita, Takashi Sumikama, Masayuki Iwamoto, Yuka Matsuki, Kenji Shigemi, and Shigetoshi Oiki Chemistry [Immunoediting role for major vault protein in apoptotic signaling induced by bacterial N-acyl homoserine lactones]( Josep Rayo, Rachel Gregor, Nicholas T. Jacob, Rambabu Dandela, Luba Dubinsky, Alex Yashkin, Alexander Aranovich, Manikandan Thangaraj, Orna Ernst, Eran Barash, Sergey Malitsky, Bogdan I. Florea, Bastiaan P. Krom, Erik A. C. Wiemer, Valerie A. Kickhoefer, Leonard H. Rome, John C. Mathison, Gunnar F. Kaufmann, Herman S. Overkleeft, Benjamin F. Cravatt, Tsaffrir Zor, Kim D. Janda, Richard J. Ulevitch, Vladimir V. Kravchenko, and Michael M. Meijler Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences [On the effects of the ocean on atmospheric CFC-11 lifetimes and emissions]( Peidong Wang, Jeffery R. Scott, Susan Solomon, John Marshall, Andrew R. Babbin, Megan Lickley, David W. J. Thompson, Timothy DeVries, Qing Liang, and Ronald G. Prinn [Historic Yangtze flooding of 2020 tied to extreme Indian Ocean conditions]( Zhen-Qiang Zhou, Shang-Ping Xie, and Renhe Zhang [Conditions and extent of volatile loss from the Moon during formation of the Procellarum basin]( Romain Tartèse, Paolo A. Sossi, and Frédéric Moynier Environmental Sciences [Global hydroclimatic response to tropical volcanic eruptions over the last millennium]( Ernesto Tejedor, Nathan J. Steiger, Jason E. Smerdon, Roberto Serrano-Notivoli, and Mathias Vuille Mathematics [Point configurations, phylogenetic trees, and dissimilarity vectors]( Alessio Caminata, Noah Giansiracusa, Han-Bom Moon, and Luca Schaffler [Local criteria for the unit equation and the asymptotic Fermat’s Last Theorem]( Nuno Freitas, Alain Kraus, and Samir Siksek Physics [Visualizing the double-gyroid twin]( Xueyan Feng, Mujin Zhuo, Hua Guo, and Edwin L. Thomas [Evolution and global charge conservation for polarization singularities emerging from non-Hermitian degeneracies]( Weijin Chen, Qingdong Yang, Yuntian Chen, and Wei Liu --------------------------------------------------------------- Social Sciences Anthropology [Reevaluating the timing of Neanderthal disappearance in Northwest Europe]( Thibaut Devièse, Grégory Abrams, Mateja Hajdinjak, Stéphane Pirson, Isabelle De Groote, Kévin Di Modica, Michel Toussaint, Valentin Fischer, Dan Comeskey, Luke Spindler, Matthias Meyer, Patrick Semal, and Tom Higham Economic Sciences [Extreme weather events and military conflict over seven centuries in ancient Korea]( Tackseung Jun and Rajiv Sethi Psychological and Cognitive Sciences [Testosterone reduces generosity through cortical and subcortical mechanisms]( Jianxin Ou, Yin Wu, Yang Hu, Xiaoxue Gao, Hong Li, and Philippe N. Tobler [Communicating artificial neural networks develop efficient color-naming systems]( Rahma Chaabouni, Eugene Kharitonov, Emmanuel Dupoux, and Marco Baroni [A multicountry perspective on gender differences in time use during COVID-19]( Laura M. Giurge, Ashley V. Whillans, and Ayse Yemiscigil [Attention recruits frontal cortex in human infants]( Cameron T. Ellis, Lena J. Skalaban, Tristan S. Yates, and Nicholas B. Turk-Browne [Evidence supporting a time-limited hippocampal role in retrieving autobiographical memories]( Adrian W. Gilmore, Alina Quach, Sarah E. Kalinowski, Estefanía I. González-Araya, Stephen J. Gotts, Daniel L. Schacter, and Alex Martin Social Sciences [Years of good life is a well-being indicator designed to serve research on sustainability]( Wolfgang Lutz, Erich Striessnig, Anna Dimitrova, Simone Ghislandi, Anastasia Lijadi, Claudia Reiter, Sonja Spitzer, and Dilek Yildiz [Impacts of introducing and lifting nonpharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 daily growth rate and compliance in the United States]( Surya Singh, Mujaheed Shaikh, Katharina Hauck, and Marisa Miraldo --------------------------------------------------------------- Biological Sciences Anthropology [Sex differences in early experience and the development of aggression in wild chimpanzees]( Kris H. Sabbi, Melissa Emery Thompson, Zarin P. Machanda, Emily Otali, Richard W. Wrangham, and Martin N. Muller Applied Biological Sciences [Monitoring tumor cell death in murine tumor models using deuterium magnetic resonance spectroscopy and spectroscopic imaging]( Friederike Hesse, Vencel Somai, Felix Kreis, Flaviu Bulat, Alan J. Wright, and Kevin M. Brindle Biochemistry [Protein design-scapes generated by microfluidic DNA assembly elucidate domain coupling in the bacterial histidine kinase CpxA]( Iain C. Clark, Bruk Mensa, Christopher J. Ochs, Nathan W. Schmidt, Marco Mravic, Francisco J. Quintana, William F. DeGrado, and Adam R. Abate [Molecular assemblies of the catalytic domain of SOS with KRas and oncogenic mutants]( Zahra Moghadamchargari, Mehdi Shirzadeh, Chang Liu, Samantha Schrecke, Charles Packianathan, David H. Russell, Minglei Zhao, and Arthur Laganowsky [Crystal structure of a far-red–sensing cyanobacteriochrome reveals an atypical bilin conformation and spectral tuning mechanism]( Sepalika Bandara, Nathan C. Rockwell, Xiaoli Zeng, Zhong Ren, Cong Wang, Heewhan Shin, Shelley S. Martin, Marcus V. Moreno, J. Clark Lagarias, and Xiaojing Yang [Computationally designed peptide macrocycle inhibitors of New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase 1]( Vikram Khipple Mulligan, Sean Workman, Tianjun Sun, Stephen Rettie, Xinting Li, Liam J. Worrall, Timothy W. Craven, Dustin T. King, Parisa Hosseinzadeh, Andrew M. Watkins, P. Douglas Renfrew, Sharon Guffy, Jason W. Labonte, Rocco Moretti, Richard Bonneau, Natalie C. J. Strynadka, and David Baker [Discovery of a caspase cleavage motif antibody reveals insights into noncanonical inflammasome function]( Christopher W. Davies, Irma Stowe, Qui T. Phung, Hoangdung Ho, Corey E. Bakalarski, Aaron Gupta, Yingnan Zhang, Jennie R. Lill, Jian Payandeh, Nobuhiko Kayagaki, and James T. Koerber [Sortase-assembled pili in Corynebacterium diphtheriae are built using a latch mechanism]( Scott A. McConnell, Rachel A. McAllister, Brendan R. Amer, Brendan J. Mahoney, Christopher K. Sue, Chungyu Chang, Hung Ton-That, and Robert T. Clubb [Crtc modulates fasting programs associated with 1-C metabolism and inhibition of insulin signaling]( Tian Wang, Ezra Wiater, Xinmin Zhang, John B. Thomas, and Marc Montminy Biophysics and Computational Biology [Modulation of a protein-folding landscape revealed by AFM-based force spectroscopy notwithstanding instrumental limitations]( Devin T. Edwards, Marc-Andre LeBlanc, and Thomas T. Perkins [Type III secretion system effector proteins are mechanically labile]( Marc-André LeBlanc, Morgan R. Fink, Thomas T. Perkins, and Marcelo C. Sousa [Mechanism of misfolding of the human prion protein revealed by a pathological mutation]( Máximo Sanz-Hernández, Joseph D. Barritt, Jens Sobek, Simone Hornemann, Adriano Aguzzi, and Alfonso De Simone [Mechanistic basis for ubiquitin modulation of a protein energy landscape]( Emma C. Carroll, Naomi R. Latorraca, Johanna M. Lindner, Brendan C. Maguire, Jeffrey G. Pelton, and Susan Marqusee Cell Biology [Rules of contact inhibition of locomotion for cells on suspended nanofibers]( Jugroop Singh, Aldwin Pagulayan, Brian A. Camley, and Amrinder S. Nain [A conformational switch driven by phosphorylation regulates the activity of the evolutionarily conserved SNARE Ykt6]( Kaitlyn McGrath, Shivani Agarwal, Marco Tonelli, Mykola Dergai, Anthony L. Gaeta, Andrew K. Shum, Jessica Lacoste, Yongbo Zhang, Wenyu Wen, Daayun Chung, Grant Wiersum, Aishwarya Shevade, Sofia Zaichick, Damian B. van Rossum, Ludmilla Shuvalova, Jeffrey N. Savas, Sergei Kuchin, Mikko Taipale, Kim A. Caldwell, Guy A. Caldwell, Dirk Fasshauer, and Gabriela Caraveo [ATM controls the extent of DNA end resection by eliciting sequential posttranslational modifications of CtIP]( Jinhua Han, Li Wan, Guixing Jiang, Liping Cao, Feiyu Xia, Tian Tian, Xiaomei Zhu, Mingjie Wu, Michael S. Y. Huen, Yi Wang, Ting Liu, and Jun Huang [The aryl hydrocarbon receptor facilitates the human cytomegalovirus-mediated G1/S block to cell cycle progression]( Pooya Naseri-Nosar, Maciej T. Nogalski, and Thomas Shenk Developmental Biology [A switch from noncanonical to canonical Wnt signaling stops neuroblast migration through a Slt–Robo and RGA-9b/ARHGAP–dependent mechanism]( Lorenzo Rella, Euclides E. Fernandes Póvoa, Jonas Mars, Annabel L. P. Ebbing, Luc Schoppink, Marco C. Betist, and Hendrik C. Korswagen [Chromatin remodelers and lineage-specific factors interact to target enhancers to establish proneurosensory fate within otic ectoderm]( Jinshu Xu, Jun Li, Ting Zhang, Huihui Jiang, Aarthi Ramakrishnan, Bernd Fritzsch, Li Shen, and Pin-Xian Xu Ecology [Stage-specific overcompensation, the hydra effect, and the failure to eradicate an invasive predator]( Edwin Grosholz, Gail Ashton, Marko Bradley, Chris Brown, Lina Ceballos-Osuna, Andrew Chang, Catherine de Rivera, Julie Gonzalez, Marcella Heineke, Michelle Marraffini, Linda McCann, Erica Pollard, Ian Pritchard, Gregory Ruiz, Brian Turner, and Carolyn Tepolt [Contrasting drivers of diversity in hosts and parasites across the tropical Andes]( Sabrina M. McNew, Lisa N. Barrow, Jessie L. Williamson, Spencer C. Galen, Heather R. Skeen, Shane G. DuBay, Ariel M. Gaffney, Andrew B. Johnson, Emil Bautista, Paloma Ordoñez, C. Jonathan Schmitt, Ashley Smiley, Thomas Valqui, John M. Bates, Shannon J. Hackett, and Christopher C. Witt [Trait similarity in reef fish faunas across the world’s oceans]( Matthew McLean, Rick D. Stuart-Smith, Sébastien Villéger, Arnaud Auber, Graham J. Edgar, M. Aaron MacNeil, Nicolas Loiseau, Fabien Leprieur, and David Mouillot [Experimental evidence of the importance of multitrophic structure for species persistence]( Ignasi Bartomeus, Serguei Saavedra, Rudolf P. Rohr, and Oscar Godoy Environmental Sciences [Higher airborne pollen concentrations correlated with increased SARS-CoV-2 infection rates, as evidenced from 31 countries across the globe]( Athanasios Damialis, Stefanie Gilles, Mikhail Sofiev, Viktoria Sofieva, Franziska Kolek, Daniela Bayr, Maria P. Plaza, Vivien Leier-Wirtz, Sigrid Kaschuba, Lewis H. Ziska, Leonard Bielory, László Makra, Maria del Mar Trigo, COVID-19/POLLEN study group, and Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann Evolution [Reevaluating the timing of Neanderthal disappearance in Northwest Europe]( Thibaut Devièse, Grégory Abrams, Mateja Hajdinjak, Stéphane Pirson, Isabelle De Groote, Kévin Di Modica, Michel Toussaint, Valentin Fischer, Dan Comeskey, Luke Spindler, Matthias Meyer, Patrick Semal, and Tom Higham [Genomic analysis of the brassica pathogen turnip mosaic potyvirus reveals its spread along the former trade routes of the Silk Road]( Shusuke Kawakubo, Fangluan Gao, Shifang Li, Zhongyang Tan, Ying-Kun Huang, Charith Raj Adkar-Purushothama, Chennappa Gurikar, Phoowanarth Maneechoat, Pissawan Chiemsombat, Seint San Aye, Naruto Furuya, Oleksiy Shevchenko, Josef Špak, Dijana Škorić, Simon Y. W. Ho, and Kazusato Ohshima Genetics [Point configurations, phylogenetic trees, and dissimilarity vectors]( Alessio Caminata, Noah Giansiracusa, Han-Bom Moon, and Luca Schaffler [Kleine-Levin syndrome is associated with birth difficulties and genetic variants in the TRANK1 gene loci]( Aditya Ambati, Ryan Hillary, Smaranda Leu-Semenescu, Hanna M. Ollila, Ling Lin, Emmanuel H. During, Neal Farber, Thomas J. Rico, Juliette Faraco, Eileen Leary, Andrea N. Goldstein-Piekarski, Yu-Shu Huang, Fang Han, Yakov Sivan, Michel Lecendreux, Pauline Dodet, Makoto Honda, Natan Gadoth, Sona Nevsimalova, Fabio Pizza, Takashi Kanbayashi, Rosa Peraita-Adrados, Guy D. Leschziner, Rosa Hasan, Francesca Canellas, Kazuhiko Kume, Makrina Daniilidou, Patrice Bourgin, David Rye, José L. Vicario, Birgit Hogl, Seung Chul Hong, Guiseppe Plazzi, Geert Mayer, Anne Marie Landtblom, Yves Dauvilliers, Isabelle Arnulf, and Emmanuel Jean-Marie Mignot [Decoupling expression and editing preferences of ADAR1 p150 and p110 isoforms]( Tony Sun, Yingpu Yu, Xianfang Wu, Ashley Acevedo, Ji-Dung Luo, Jiayi Wang, William M. Schneider, Brian Hurwitz, Brad R. Rosenberg, Hachung Chung, and Charles M. Rice [The synaptonemal complex imposes crossover interference and heterochiasmy in Arabidopsis]( Laia Capilla-Pérez, Stéphanie Durand, Aurélie Hurel, Qichao Lian, Aurélie Chambon, Christelle Taochy, Victor Solier, Mathilde Grelon, and Raphael Mercier Immunology and Inflammation [JNK signaling prevents biliary cyst formation through a CASPASE-8–dependent function of RIPK1 during aging]( Katrin Müller, Hanna Honcharova-Biletska, Christiane Koppe, Michèle Egger, Lap Kwan Chan, Anne T. Schneider, Lena Küsgens, Friederike Böhm, Yannick Boege, Marc E. Healy, Johannes Schmitt, Sarah Comtesse, Mirco Castoldi, Christian Preisinger, Marta Szydlowska, Enrico Focaccia, Nadine T. Gaisa, Sven H. Loosen, Simone Jörs, Frank Tacke, Christoph Roderburg, Verena Keitel, Johannes G. Bode, Peter Boor, Roger J. Davis, Thomas Longerich, Fabian Geisler, Mathias Heikenwalder, Achim Weber, Mihael Vucur, and Tom Luedde [Diverse innate stimuli activate basophils through pathways involving Syk and IκB kinases]( Christophe Pellefigues, Palak Mehta, Sally Chappell, Bibek Yumnam, Sam Old, Mali Camberis, and Graham Le Gros [Analysis of chronic inflammatory lesions of the colon for BMMF Rep antigen expression and CD68 macrophage interactions]( Timo Bund, Ekaterina Nikitina, Deblina Chakraborty, Claudia Ernst, Karin Gunst, Boyana Boneva, Claudia Tessmer, Nadine Volk, Alexander Brobeil, Achim Weber, Mathias Heikenwalder, Harald zur Hausen, and Ethel-Michele de Villiers [High-salt diet suppresses autoimmune demyelination by regulating the blood–brain barrier permeability]( Shin-Young Na, Mathangi Janakiraman, Alexei Leliavski, and Gurumoorthy Krishnamoorthy [A time course transcriptomic analysis of host and injected oncogenic cells reveals new aspects of Drosophila immune defenses]( Di Chen, Arghyashree Roychowdhury-Sinha, Pragya Prakash, Xiao Lan, Wenmin Fan, Akira Goto, and Jules A. Hoffmann Medical Sciences [Targeting loss of heterozygosity for cancer-specific immunotherapy]( Michael S. Hwang, Brian J. Mog, Jacqueline Douglass, Alexander H. Pearlman, Emily Han-Chung Hsiue, Suman Paul, Sarah R. DiNapoli, Maximilian F. Konig, Drew M. Pardoll, Sandra B. Gabelli, Chetan Bettegowda, Nickolas Papadopoulos, Bert Vogelstein, Shibin Zhou, and Kenneth W. Kinzler [Vagus nerve stimulation activates two distinct neuroimmune circuits converging in the spleen to protect mice from kidney injury]( Shinji Tanaka, Chikara Abe, Stephen B. G. Abbott, Shuqiu Zheng, Yusuke Yamaoka, Jonathan E. Lipsey, Nataliya I. Skrypnyk, Junlan Yao, Tsuyoshi Inoue, William T. Nash, Daniel S. Stornetta, Diane L. Rosin, Ruth L. Stornetta, Patrice G. Guyenet, and Mark D. Okusa [The intrinsic instability of the hydrolase domain of lipoprotein lipase facilitates its inactivation by ANGPTL4-catalyzed unfolding]( Katrine Z. Leth-Espensen, Kristian K. Kristensen, Anni Kumari, Anne-Marie L. Winther, Stephen G. Young, Thomas J. D. Jørgensen, and Michael Ploug Microbiology [Computationally designed pyocyanin demethylase acts synergistically with tobramycin to kill recalcitrant Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms]( Chelsey M. VanDrisse, Rosalie Lipsh-Sokolik, Olga Khersonsky, Sarel J. Fleishman, and Dianne K. Newman [Immunoediting role for major vault protein in apoptotic signaling induced by bacterial N-acyl homoserine lactones]( Josep Rayo, Rachel Gregor, Nicholas T. Jacob, Rambabu Dandela, Luba Dubinsky, Alex Yashkin, Alexander Aranovich, Manikandan Thangaraj, Orna Ernst, Eran Barash, Sergey Malitsky, Bogdan I. Florea, Bastiaan P. Krom, Erik A. C. Wiemer, Valerie A. Kickhoefer, Leonard H. Rome, John C. Mathison, Gunnar F. Kaufmann, Herman S. Overkleeft, Benjamin F. Cravatt, Tsaffrir Zor, Kim D. Janda, Richard J. Ulevitch, Vladimir V. Kravchenko, and Michael M. Meijler [HflX is a GTPase that controls hypoxia-induced replication arrest in slow-growing mycobacteria]( Jie Yin Grace Ngan, Swathi Pasunooti, Wilford Tse, Wei Meng, So Fong Cam Ngan, Huan Jia, Jian Qing Lin, Sze Wai Ng, Muhammad Taufiq Jaafa, Su Lei Sharol Cho, Jieling Lim, Hui Qi Vanessa Koh, Noradibah Abdul Ghani, Kevin Pethe, Siu Kwan Sze, Julien Lescar, and Sylvie Alonso [Toxoplasma gondii association with host mitochondria requires key mitochondrial protein import machinery]( Matthew L. Blank, Jing Xia, Mary M. Morcos, Mai Sun, Pamela S. Cantrell, Yang Liu, Xuemei Zeng, Cameron J. Powell, Nathan Yates, Martin J. Boulanger, and Jon P. Boyle [Estimating maximal microbial growth rates from cultures, metagenomes, and single cells via codon usage patterns]( Jake L. Weissman, Shengwei Hou, and Jed A. Fuhrman [Lineage-specific selection and the evolution of virulence in the Candida clade]( Sheena D. Singh-Babak, Tomas Babak, Hunter B. Fraser, and Alexander D. Johnson [Structural basis for selective AMPylation of Rac-subfamily GTPases by Bartonella effector protein 1 (Bep1)]( Nikolaus Dietz, Markus Huber, Isabel Sorg, Arnaud Goepfert, Alexander Harms, Tilman Schirmer, and Christoph Dehio [The cyanobacterial taxis protein HmpF regulates type IV pilus activity in response to light]( Thomas V. Harwood, Esthefani G. Zuniga, HoJun Kweon, and Douglas D. Risser [Functional and genetic analysis of viral receptor ACE2 orthologs reveals a broad potential host range of SARS-CoV-2]( Yinghui Liu, Gaowei Hu, Yuyan Wang, Wenlin Ren, Xiaomin Zhao, Fansen Ji, Yunkai Zhu, Fei Feng, Mingli Gong, Xiaohui Ju, Yuanfei Zhu, Xia Cai, Jun Lan, Jianying Guo, Min Xie, Lin Dong, Zihui Zhu, Jie Na, Jianping Wu, Xun Lan, Youhua Xie, Xinquan Wang, Zhenghong Yuan, Rong Zhang, and Qiang Ding [A safe and highly efficacious measles virus-based vaccine expressing SARS-CoV-2 stabilized prefusion spike]( Mijia Lu, Piyush Dravid, Yuexiu Zhang, Sheetal Trivedi, Anzhong Li, Olivia Harder, Mahesh KC, Supranee Chaiwatpongsakorn, Ashley Zani, Adam Kenney, Cong Zeng, Chuanxi Cai, Chengjin Ye, Xueya Liang, Masako Shimamura, Shan-Lu Liu, Asuncion Mejias, Octavio Ramilo, Prosper N. Boyaka, Jianming Qiu, Luis Martinez-Sobrido, Jacob S. Yount, Mark E. Peeples, Amit Kapoor, Stefan Niewiesk, and Jianrong Li [One or two injections of MVA-vectored vaccine shields hACE2 transgenic mice from SARS-CoV-2 upper and lower respiratory tract infection]( Ruikang Liu, Jeffrey L. Americo, Catherine A. Cotter, Patricia L. Earl, Noam Erez, Chen Peng, and Bernard Moss Neuroscience [Testosterone reduces generosity through cortical and subcortical mechanisms]( Jianxin Ou, Yin Wu, Yang Hu, Xiaoxue Gao, Hong Li, and Philippe N. Tobler [Neuronal circuits overcome imbalance in excitation and inhibition by adjusting connection numbers]( Nirit Sukenik, Oleg Vinogradov, Eyal Weinreb, Menahem Segal, Anna Levina, and Elisha Moses [Evidence supporting a time-limited hippocampal role in retrieving autobiographical memories]( Adrian W. Gilmore, Alina Quach, Sarah E. Kalinowski, Estefanía I. González-Araya, Stephen J. Gotts, Daniel L. Schacter, and Alex Martin [Rapid initiation of cell cycle reentry processes protects neurons from amyloid-β toxicity]( Stefania Ippati, Yuanyuan Deng, Julia van der Hoven, Celine Heu, Annika van Hummel, Sook Wern Chua, Esmeralda Paric, Gabriella Chan, Astrid Feiten, Thomas Fath, Yazi D. Ke, Nikolas K. Haass, and Lars M. Ittner [Meis homeobox genes control progenitor competence in the retina]( Naoko Dupacova, Barbora Antosova, Jan Paces, and Zbynek Kozmik [Directed information exchange between cortical layers in macaque V1 and V4 and its modulation by selective attention]( Demetrio Ferro, Jochem van Kempen, Michael Boyd, Stefano Panzeri, and Alexander Thiele Physiology [Conductance selectivity of Na+ across the K+ channel via Na+ trapped in a tortuous trajectory]( Kenichiro Mita, Takashi Sumikama, Masayuki Iwamoto, Yuka Matsuki, Kenji Shigemi, and Shigetoshi Oiki Plant Biology [Electrochromic shift supports the membrane destabilization model of Tat-mediated transport and shows ion leakage during Sec transport]( Anthony H. Asher and Steven M. Theg [The receptor-like kinases BAM1 and BAM2 are required for root xylem patterning]( Pengfei Fan, Emmanuel Aguilar, Mariem Bradai, Hao Xue, Hua Wang, Tabata Rosas-Diaz, Weihua Tang, Sebastian Wolf, Heng Zhang, Lin Xu, and Rosa Lozano-Durán [A co-opted steroid synthesis gene, maintained in sorghum but not maize, is associated with a divergence in leaf wax chemistry]( Lucas Busta, Elizabeth Schmitz, Dylan K. Kosma, James C. Schnable, and Edgar B. Cahoon Population Biology [Oocyte age and preconceptual alcohol use are highly correlated with epigenetic imprinting of a noncoding RNA (nc886)]( Brittany L. Carpenter, Tanaka K. Remba, Stacey L. Thomas, Zachary Madaj, Lucy Brink, Rochelle L. Tiedemann, Hein J. Odendaal, and Peter A. Jones Sustainability Science [Better outcomes for pest pressure, insecticide use, and yield in less intensive agricultural landscapes]( Vesna Gagic, Matthew Holding, William N. Venables, Andrew D. Hulthen, and Nancy A. Schellhorn Systems Biology [The effective graph reveals redundancy, canalization, and control pathways in biochemical regulation and signaling]( Alexander J. Gates, Rion Brattig Correia, Xuan Wang, and Luis M. Rocha [Yeast optimizes metal utilization based on metabolic network and enzyme kinetics]( Yu Chen, Feiran Li, Jiwei Mao, Yun Chen, and Jens Nielsen [Cover] --------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to {EMAIL}. [Unsubscribe]( from or [edit]( your subscription for this service. Or by mail: Customer Service * 15575-A Los Gatos Blvd * Los Gatos, CA 95032 * U.S.A. Copyright © 2021 by the National Academy of Sciences