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) This Week in PNAS
[In This Issue]( This week's research highlights
--------------------------------------------------------------- Inner Workings
[Inner Workings: Big wildfires mobilize mercury. What are the risks to surface water?](
Megan Sever
An over-the-shoulder look at scientists at work
--------------------------------------------------------------- QnAs
[QnAs with Andrew P. McMahon](
Farooq Ahmed
Interviews with leading scientific researchers and newsmakers
--------------------------------------------------------------- Retrospective
[David Wake: Why are there so many kinds of organisms (but especially salamanders)?](
James Hanken --------------------------------------------------------------- Commentaries
[Cilia take the egg on a magic carpet ride](
Susan S. Suarez and Mariana F. Wolfner
[Genome architecture and social evolution](
Sandra M. Rehan
[Antarctica as an evolutionary arena during the Cenozoic global cooling](
Fabien L. Condamine and Gael J. Kergoat
[GWAS deems parents guilty by association](
Arbel Harpak and Michael D. Edge --------------------------------------------------------------- Perspectives
[Epidemics and the future of coffee production](
Kevon Rhiney, Zack Guido, Chris Knudson, Jacques Avelino, Christopher M. Bacon, Grégoire Leclerc, M. Catherine Aime, and Daniel P. Bebber
[Stewardship of global collective behavior](
Joseph B. Bak-Coleman, Mark Alfano, Wolfram Barfuss, Carl T. Bergstrom, Miguel A. Centeno, Iain D. Couzin, Jonathan F. Donges, Mirta Galesic, Andrew S. Gersick, Jennifer Jacquet, Albert B. Kao, Rachel E. Moran, Pawel Romanczuk, Daniel I. Rubenstein, Kaia J. Tombak, Jay J. Van Bavel, and Elke U. Weber --------------------------------------------------------------- Letters
[Does exhaled aerosol increase with COVID-19 infection correlate with body mass index-years?](
JĂĽrgen Stohner
[Reply to Stohner: On the significance of BMI-age dependence of exhaled aerosol](
David A. Edwards, Jonathan Salzman, and Robert Langer --------------------------------------------------------------- Brief Reports
[Aerodynamic integration produces a vehicle shape with a negative drag coefficient](
Kambiz Salari and Jason M. Ortega
[Stable individual differences in infants’ responses to violations of intuitive physics](
Jasmin Perez and Lisa Feigenson
[The potential stickiness of pandemic-induced behavior changes in the United States](
Deborah Salon, Matthew Wigginton Conway, Denise Capasso da Silva, Rishabh Singh Chauhan, Sybil Derrible, Abolfazl (Kouros) Mohammadian, Sara Khoeini, Nathan Parker, Laura Mirtich, Ali Shamshiripour, Ehsan Rahimi, and Ram M. Pendyala --------------------------------------------------------------- Physical Sciences
Applied Physical Sciences
[Mechanisms of transport enhancement for self-propelled nanoswimmers in a porous matrix](
Haichao Wu, Benjamin Greydanus, and Daniel K. Schwartz Biophysics and Computational Biology
[The narrowing of dendrite branches across nodes follows a well-defined scaling law](
Maijia Liao, Xin Liang, and Jonathon Howard
[Statistical analysis of ENDOR spectra](
Yvo Pokern, Benjamin Eltzner, Stephan F. Huckemann, Clemens Beeken, JoAnne Stubbe, Igor Tkach, Marina Bennati, and Markus Hiller
[Multiscale mechanics and temporal evolution of vimentin intermediate filament networks](
Anna V. Schepers, Charlotta Lorenz, Peter Nietmann, Andreas Janshoff, Stefan Klumpp, and Sarah Köster Chemistry
[Anthracene-induced formation of highly twisted metallacycle and its crystal structure and tunable assembly behaviors](
Chongyi Chen, Yan Sun, Yue Zhao, Ryan T. VanderLinden, Wei Tuo, Fengmin Zhang, Shuwei Zhang, Hajar Sepehrpour, Chaoguo Yan, Jin Wang, Dan Li, and Peter J. Stang Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
[Revisiting the sedimentary record of the rise of diatoms](
Sophie Westacott, Noah J. Planavsky, Ming-Yu Zhao, and Pincelli M. Hull
[Optimized river diversion scenarios promote sustainability of urbanized deltas](
Andrew J. Moodie and Jeffrey A. Nittrouer
[Mapping pollution exposure and chemistry during an extreme air quality event (the 2018 Kīlauea eruption) using a low-cost sensor network](
Ben Crawford, David H. Hagan, Ilene Grossman, Elizabeth Cole, Lacey Holland, Colette L. Heald, and Jesse H. Kroll Engineering
[Ultrasound-on-chip platform for medical imaging, analysis, and collective intelligence](
Jonathan M. Rothberg, Tyler S. Ralston, Alex G. Rothberg, John Martin, Jaime S. Zahorian, Susan A. Alie, Nevada J. Sanchez, Kailiang Chen, Chao Chen, Karl Thiele, David Grosjean, Jungwook Yang, Liewei Bao, Rob Schneider, Sebastian Schaetz, Christophe Meyer, Abraham Neben, Bob Ryan, J. R. Petrus, Joe Lutsky, Dan McMahill, Gregory Corteville, Matthew R. Hageman, Larry Miller, and Keith G. Fife
[Spatial constraints in large-scale expansion of wind power plants](
Enrico G. A. Antonini and Ken Caldeira Physics
[Antigenic waves of virus–immune coevolution](
Jacopo Marchi, Michael Lässig, Aleksandra M. Walczak, and Thierry Mora
[From hidden order to antiferromagnetism: Electronic structure changes in Fe-doped URu2Si2](
Emmanouil Frantzeskakis, Ji Dai, Cédric Bareille, Tobias C. Rödel, Monika Güttler, Sheng Ran, Noravee Kanchanavatee, Kevin Huang, Naveen Pouse, Christian T. Wolowiec, Emile D. L. Rienks, Pascal Lejay, Franck Fortuna, M. Brian Maple, and Andrés F. Santander-Syro
[Phase-induced topological superconductivity in a planar heterostructure](
Omri Lesser, Andrew Saydjari, Marie Wesson, Amir Yacoby, and Yuval Oreg Sustainability Science
[Optimized river diversion scenarios promote sustainability of urbanized deltas](
Andrew J. Moodie and Jeffrey A. Nittrouer
[Comparing expert elicitation and model-based probabilistic technology cost forecasts for the energy transition](
Jing Meng, Rupert Way, Elena Verdolini, and Laura Diaz Anadon --------------------------------------------------------------- Social Sciences
Anthropology
[Bronze Age weight systems as a measure of market integration in Western Eurasia](
Nicola Ialongo, Raphael Hermann, and Lorenz Rahmstorf Economic Sciences
[Comparing expert elicitation and model-based probabilistic technology cost forecasts for the energy transition](
Jing Meng, Rupert Way, Elena Verdolini, and Laura Diaz Anadon
[Walrasian equilibrium behavior in nature](
Ted Loch-Temzelides
[Emergent inequality and business cycles in a simple behavioral macroeconomic model](
Yuki M. Asano, Jakob J. Kolb, Jobst Heitzig, and J. Doyne Farmer Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
[How both partners’ individual differences, stress, and behavior predict change in relationship satisfaction: Extending the VSA model](
James K. McNulty, Andrea L. Meltzer, Lisa A. Neff, and Benjamin R. Karney Social Sciences
[Effects of double-dose algebra on college persistence and degree attainment](
Takako Nomi, Stephen W. Raudenbush, and Jake J. Smith --------------------------------------------------------------- Biological Sciences
Applied Biological Sciences
[Connecting structure and function from organisms to molecules in small-animal symbioses through chemo-histo-tomography](
Benedikt Geier, Janina Oetjen, Bernhard Ruthensteiner, Maxim Polikarpov, Harald R. Gruber-Vodicka, and Manuel Liebeke Biochemistry
[Promoter-sequence determinants and structural basis of primer-dependent transcription initiation in Escherichia coli](
Kyle S. Skalenko, Lingting Li, Yuanchao Zhang, Irina O. Vvedenskaya, Jared T. Winkelman, Alexander L. Cope, Deanne M. Taylor, Premal Shah, Richard H. Ebright, Justin B. Kinney, Yu Zhang, and Bryce E. Nickels
[Competing off-loading mechanisms of meropenem from an l,d-transpeptidase reduce antibiotic effectiveness](
Trevor A. Zandi and Craig A. Townsend Biophysics and Computational Biology
[The narrowing of dendrite branches across nodes follows a well-defined scaling law](
Maijia Liao, Xin Liang, and Jonathon Howard
[Cathelicidin and PMB neutralize endotoxins by multifactorial mechanisms including LPS interaction and targeting of host cell membranes](
Andra B. Schromm, Laura Paulowski, Yani Kaconis, Franziska Kopp, Max Koistinen, Annemarie Donoghue, Susanne Keese, Christian Nehls, Julia Wernecke, Patrick Garidel, Eva Sevcsik, Karl Lohner, Susana Sanchez-Gomez, Guillermo Martinez-de-Tejada, Klaus Brandenburg, Mario Brameshuber, Gerhard J. Schütz, Jörg Andrä, and Thomas Gutsmann
[Deep representation learning improves prediction of LacI-mediated transcriptional repression](
Alexander S. Garruss, Katherine M. Collins, and George M. Church Cell Biology
[Loss of peptide:N-glycanase causes proteasome dysfunction mediated by a sugar-recognizing ubiquitin ligase](
Yukiko Yoshida, Makoto Asahina, Arisa Murakami, Junko Kawawaki, Meari Yoshida, Reiko Fujinawa, Kazuhiro Iwai, Ryuichi Tozawa, Noriyuki Matsuda, Keiji Tanaka, and Tadashi Suzuki
[CRY2 missense mutations suppress P53 and enhance cell growth](
Alanna B. Chan, Gian Carlo G. Parico, Jennifer L. Fribourgh, Lara H. Ibrahim, Michael J. Bollong, Carrie L. Partch, and Katja A. Lamia Developmental Biology
[The circadian clock gates Drosophila adult emergence by controlling the timecourse of metamorphosis](
Brandon Mark, Liliana Bustos-González, Guadalupe Cascallares, Felipe Conejera, and John Ewer Ecology
[Revisiting the sedimentary record of the rise of diatoms](
Sophie Westacott, Noah J. Planavsky, Ming-Yu Zhao, and Pincelli M. Hull
[Walrasian equilibrium behavior in nature](
Ted Loch-Temzelides
[Climate and land-use changes interact to drive long-term reorganization of riverine fish communities globally](
Lise Comte, Julian D. Olden, Pablo A. Tedesco, Albert Ruhi, and Xingli Giam
[Cytoklepty in the plankton: A host strategy to optimize the bioenergetic machinery of endosymbiotic algae](
Clarisse Uwizeye, Margaret Mars Brisbin, Benoit Gallet, Fabien Chevalier, Charlotte LeKieffre, Nicole L. Schieber, Denis Falconet, Daniel Wangpraseurt, Lukas Schertel, Hryhoriy Stryhanyuk, Niculina Musat, Satoshi Mitarai, Yannick Schwab, Giovanni Finazzi, and Johan Decelle Environmental Sciences
[Aerobic bacterial methane synthesis](
Qian Wang, Abdullah Alowaifeer, Patricia Kerner, Narayanaganesh Balasubramanian, Angela Patterson, William Christian, Angela Tarver, John E. Dore, Roland Hatzenpichler, Brian Bothner, and Timothy R. McDermott Evolution
[Antigenic waves of virus–immune coevolution](
Jacopo Marchi, Michael Lässig, Aleksandra M. Walczak, and Thierry Mora
[Contrasting genetic signal of recolonization after rainforest fragmentation in African trees with different dispersal abilities](
RosalĂa Piñeiro, Olivier J. Hardy, Carolina Tovar, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Filipe Garrett Vieira, and M. Thomas P. Gilbert
[Museum genomics reveals the rapid decline and extinction of Australian rodents since European settlement](
Emily Roycroft, Anna J. MacDonald, Craig Moritz, Adnan Moussalli, Roberto Portela Miguez, and Kevin C. Rowe Genetics
[DOT1L complex regulates transcriptional initiation in human erythroleukemic cells](
Aiwei Wu, Junhong Zhi, Tian Tian, Ali Cihan, Murat A. Cevher, Ziling Liu, Yael David, Tom W. Muir, Robert G. Roeder, and Ming Yu
[A chromodomain protein mediates heterochromatin-directed piRNA expression](
Xinya Huang, Peng Cheng, Chenchun Weng, Zongxiu Xu, Chenming Zeng, Zheng Xu, Xiangyang Chen, Chengming Zhu, Shouhong Guang, and Xuezhu Feng Immunology and Inflammation
[Dysregulated copper transport in multiple sclerosis may cause demyelination via astrocytes](
Emanuela Colombo, Daniela Triolo, Claudia Bassani, Francesco Bedogni, Marco Di Dario, Giorgia Dina, Evelien Fredrickx, Isabella Fermo, Vittorio Martinelli, Jia Newcombe, Carla Taveggia, Angelo Quattrini, Giancarlo Comi, and Cinthia Farina
[B cell residency but not T cell–independent IgA switching in the gut requires innate lymphoid cells](
Mingzhu Zheng, Kairui Mao, Difeng Fang, Dan Li, Jun Lyu, Dingkang Peng, Xi Chen, Nikki Cannon, Gangqing Hu, Jiajia Han, Keji Zhao, Wanjun Chen, and Jinfang Zhu
[Human variation in gingival inflammation](
Shatha Bamashmous, Georgios A. Kotsakis, Kristopher A. Kerns, Brian G. Leroux, Camille Zenobia, Dandan Chen, Harsh M. Trivedi, Jeffrey S. McLean, and Richard P. Darveau
[Conventional NK cells and tissue-resident ILC1s join forces to control liver metastasis](
Laura Ducimetière, Giulia Lucchiari, Gioana Litscher, Marc Nater, Laura Heeb, Nicolás Gonzalo Nuñez, Laura Wyss, Dominik Burri, Marijne Vermeer, Julia Gschwend, Andreas E. Moor, Burkhard Becher, Maries van den Broek, and Sonia Tugues
[Matrix lumican endocytosed by immune cells controls receptor ligand trafficking to promote TLR4 and restrict TLR9 in sepsis](
George Maiti, Jihane Frikeche, Carly Yuen-Man Lam, Asim Biswas, Vishal Shinde, Marie Samanovic, Jonathan C. Kagan, Mark J. Mulligan, and Shukti Chakravarti Medical Sciences
[Single-nuclear transcriptomics reveals diversity of proximal tubule cell states in a dynamic response to acute kidney injury](
Louisa M. S. Gerhardt, Jing Liu, Kari Koppitch, Pietro E. CippĂ , and Andrew P. McMahon
[Ultrasound-on-chip platform for medical imaging, analysis, and collective intelligence](
Jonathan M. Rothberg, Tyler S. Ralston, Alex G. Rothberg, John Martin, Jaime S. Zahorian, Susan A. Alie, Nevada J. Sanchez, Kailiang Chen, Chao Chen, Karl Thiele, David Grosjean, Jungwook Yang, Liewei Bao, Rob Schneider, Sebastian Schaetz, Christophe Meyer, Abraham Neben, Bob Ryan, J. R. Petrus, Joe Lutsky, Dan McMahill, Gregory Corteville, Matthew R. Hageman, Larry Miller, and Keith G. Fife
[Elimination of fibrin Îł-chain cross-linking by FXIIIa increases pulmonary embolism arising from murine inferior vena cava thrombi](
CĂ©dric Duval, Adomas Baranauskas, TĂmea Feller, Majid Ali, Lih T. Cheah, Nadira Y. Yuldasheva, Stephen R. Baker, Helen R. McPherson, Zaher Raslan, Marc A. Bailey, Richard M. Cubbon, Simon D. Connell, Ramzi A. Ajjan, Helen Philippou, Khalid M. Naseem, Victoria C. Ridger, and Robert A. S. AriĂ«ns Microbiology
[Characterization of a new SARS-CoV-2 variant that emerged in Brazil](
Masaki Imai, Peter J. Halfmann, Seiya Yamayoshi, Kiyoko Iwatsuki-Horimoto, Shiho Chiba, Tokiko Watanabe, Noriko Nakajima, Mutsumi Ito, Makoto Kuroda, Maki Kiso, Tadashi Maemura, Kenta Takahashi, Samantha Loeber, Masato Hatta, Michiko Koga, Hiroyuki Nagai, Shinya Yamamoto, Makoto Saito, Eisuke Adachi, Osamu Akasaka, Morio Nakamura, Ichiro Nakachi, Takayuki Ogura, Rie Baba, Kensuke Fujita, Junichi Ochi, Keiko Mitamura, Hideaki Kato, Hideaki Nakajima, Kazuma Yagi, Shin-ichiro Hattori, Kenji Maeda, Tetsuya Suzuki, Yusuke Miyazato, Riccardo Valdez, Carmen Gherasim, Yuri Furusawa, Moe Okuda, Michiko Ujie, Tiago J. S. Lopes, Atsuhiro Yasuhara, Hiroshi Ueki, Yuko Sakai-Tagawa, Amie J. Eisfeld, John J. Baczenas, David A. Baker, Shelby L. O’Connor, David H. O’Connor, Shuetsu Fukushi, Tsuguto Fujimoto, Yudai Kuroda, Aubree Gordon, Ken Maeda, Norio Ohmagari, Norio Sugaya, Hiroshi Yotsuyanagi, Hiroaki Mitsuya, Tadak i Suzuki, and Yoshihiro Kawaoka
[A fluorescence-based genetic screen reveals diverse mechanisms silencing small RNA signaling in E. coli](
Jiandong Chen, Leann To, Francois de Mets, Xing Luo, Nadim Majdalani, Chin-Hsien Tai, and Susan Gottesman
[IgA potentiates NETosis in response to viral infection](
Hannah D. Stacey, Diana Golubeva, Alyssa Posca, Jann C. Ang, Kyle E. Novakowski, Muhammad Atif Zahoor, Charu Kaushic, Ewa Cairns, Dawn M. E. Bowdish, Caitlin E. Mullarkey, and Matthew S. Miller
[Mass-immigration determines the assembly of activated sludge microbial communities](
Giulia Dottorini, Thomas Yssing Michaelsen, Sergey Kucheryavskiy, Kasper Skytte Andersen, Jannie Munk Kristensen, Miriam Peces, Dorottya Sarolta Wagner, Marta Nierychlo, and Per Halkjær Nielsen Neuroscience
[Dissociations between glucose metabolism and blood oxygenation in the human default mode network revealed by simultaneous PET-fMRI](
Lars Jonasson Stiernman, Filip Grill, Andreas Hahn, Lucas Rischka, Rupert Lanzenberger, Vania Panes Lundmark, Katrine Riklund, Jan Axelsson, and Anna Rieckmann
[Autophagy deficiency modulates microglial lipid homeostasis and aggravates tau pathology and spreading](
Yin Xu, Nicholas E. Propson, Shuqi Du, Wen Xiong, and Hui Zheng
[Acute Trem2 reduction triggers increased microglial phagocytosis, slowing amyloid deposition in mice](
Kathleen M. Schoch, Lubov A. Ezerskiy, Michaela M. Morhaus, Riley N. Bannon, Andrew D. Sauerbeck, Mark Shabsovich, Paymaan Jafar-nejad, Frank Rigo, and Timothy M. Miller
[Alternative splicing of GluN1 gates glycine site–dependent nonionotropic signaling by NMDAR receptors](
Hongbin Li, Vishaal Rajani, Lu Han, Danielle Chung, James E. Cooke, Ameet S. Sengar, and Michael W. Salter
[A dynamical model for generating synthetic data to quantify active tactile sensing behavior in the rat](
Nadina O. Zweifel, Nicholas E. Bush, Ian Abraham, Todd D. Murphey, and Mitra J. Z. Hartmann Physiology
[Activation of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis by exogenous and endogenous GDF15](
Irene Cimino, Hanna Kim, Y. C. Loraine Tung, Kent Pedersen, Debra Rimmington, John A. Tadross, Sara N. Kohnke, Ana Neves-Costa, AndrĂ© Barros, Stephanie Joaquim, Don Bennett, Audrey Melvin, Samuel M. Lockhart, Anthony J. Rostron, Jonathan Scott, Hui Liu, Keith Burling, Peter Barker, Menna R. Clatworthy, E-Chiang Lee, A. John Simpson, Giles S. H. Yeo, LuĂs F. Moita, Kendra K. Bence, Sebastian Beck Jørgensen, Anthony P. Coll, Danna M. Breen, and Stephen O’Rahilly Plant Biology
[Loss of function of a DMR6 ortholog in tomato confers broad-spectrum disease resistance](
Daniela Paula de Toledo Thomazella, Kyungyong Seong, Rebecca Mackelprang, Douglas Dahlbeck, Yu Geng, Upinder S. Gill, Tiancong Qi, Julie Pham, Priscila Giuseppe, Clara Youngna Lee, Arturo Ortega, Myeong-Je Cho, Samuel F. Hutton, and Brian Staskawicz
[Phytochrome A elevates plant circadian-clock components to suppress shade avoidance in deep-canopy shade](
Donald P. Fraser, Paige E. Panter, Ashutosh Sharma, Bhavana Sharma, Antony N. Dodd, and Keara A. Franklin Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
[Perception of invisible masked objects in early infancy](
Yusuke Nakashima, So Kanazawa, and Masami K. Yamaguchi Systems Biology
[Tryptophan-metabolizing gut microbes regulate adult neurogenesis via the aryl hydrocarbon receptor](
George Zhang Wei, Katherine A. Martin, Peter Yuli Xing, Ruchi Agrawal, Luke Whiley, Thomas K. Wood, Sophia Hejndorf, Yong Zhi Ng, Jeremy Zhi Yan Low, Janet Rossant, Robert Nechanitzky, Elaine Holmes, Jeremy K. Nicholson, Eng-King Tan, Paul M. Matthews, and Sven Pettersson --------------------------------------------------------------- Corrections
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