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[In This Issue]( --------------------------------------------------------------- News Feature
[News Feature: What was the first “art”? How would we know?](
Amy McDermott --------------------------------------------------------------- Commentaries
[How benign autoimmunity becomes detrimental in type 1 diabetes](
Matthias von Herrath and Ezio Bonifacio
[Climate–vegetation models bring fossil forests back to life](
Howard J. Falcon-Lang --------------------------------------------------------------- Brief Reports
[Pterosaurs evolved a muscular wing–body junction providing multifaceted flight performance benefits: Advanced aerodynamic smoothing, sophisticated wing root control, and wing force generation](
Michael Pittman, Luke A. Barlow, Thomas G. Kaye, and Michael B. Habib
[Increased in vitro neutralizing activity of SARS-CoV-2 IgA1 dimers compared to monomers and IgG](
Lin Sun, Somanath Kallolimath, Roman Palt, Karin Stiasny, Patrick Mayrhofer, Daniel Maresch, Lukas Eidenberger, and Herta Steinkellner --------------------------------------------------------------- Physical Sciences
Applied Physical Sciences
[Topological barriers to defect nucleation generate large mechanical forces in an ordered fluid](
Bruno Zappone and Roberto Bartolino
[First-order antiferromagnetic transitions of SrMn2P2 and CaMn2P2 single crystals containing corrugated-honeycomb Mn sublattices](
N. S. Sangeetha, Santanu Pakhira, Qing-Ping Ding, Lennard Krause, Hyung-Cheol Lee, Volodymyr Smetana, Anja-Verena Mudring, Bo Brummerstedt Iversen, Yuji Furukawa, and David C. Johnston Applied Mathematics
[Two provably consistent divide-and-conquer clustering algorithms for large networks](
Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee, Purnamrita Sarkar, and Peter J. Bickel Biophysics and Computational Biology
[Configurational fingerprints of multicellular living systems](
Haiqian Yang, Adrian F. Pegoraro, Yulong Han, Wenhui Tang, Rohan Abeyaratne, Dapeng Bi, and Ming Guo
[Mammalian sperm hyperactivation regulates navigation via physical boundaries and promotes pseudo-chemotaxis](
Meisam Zaferani, Susan S. Suarez, and Alireza Abbaspourrad
[Phase separation in the outer membrane of Escherichia coli](
Georgina Benn, Irina V. Mikheyeva, Patrick George Inns, Joel C. Forster, Nikola Ojkic, Christian Bortolini, Maxim G. Ryadnov, Colin Kleanthous, Thomas J. Silhavy, and Bart W. Hoogenboom
[Accurate model of liquid–liquid phase behavior of intrinsically disordered proteins from optimization of single-chain properties](
Giulio Tesei, Thea K. Schulze, Ramon Crehuet, and Kresten Lindorff-Larsen Chemistry
[Deep learning the slow modes for rare events sampling](
Luigi Bonati, GiovanniMaria Piccini, and Michele Parrinello
[Strong π-stacking causes unusually large anisotropic thermal expansion and thermochromism](
Madushani Dharmarwardana, Brooke M. Otten, Mukunda M. Ghimire, Bhargav S. Arimilli, Christopher M. Williams, Stephen Boateng, Zhou Lu, Gregory T. McCandless, Jeremiah J. Gassensmith, and Mohammad A. Omary
[Flexible complementary circuits operating at sub-0.5 V via hybrid organic–inorganic electrolyte-gated transistors](
Yao Yao, Wei Huang, Jianhua Chen, Gang Wang, Hongming Chen, Xinming Zhuang, Yibin Ying, Jianfeng Ping, Tobin J. Marks, and Antonio Facchetti Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
[Majority of US urban natural gas emissions unaccounted for in inventories](
Maryann R. Sargent, Cody Floerchinger, Kathryn McKain, John Budney, Elaine W. Gottlieb, Lucy R. Hutyra, Joseph Rudek, and Steven C. Wofsy Environmental Sciences
[Serum apolipoprotein A-I depletion is causative to silica nanoparticles–induced cardiovascular damage](
Xuting Liu, Wei Wei, Zixuan Liu, Erqun Song, Jianlin Lou, Lingfang Feng, Rongchong Huang, Chunying Chen, Pu Chun Ke, and Yang Song Sustainability Science
[Upslope migration of snow avalanches in a warming climate](
Florie Giacona, Nicolas Eckert, Christophe Corona, Robin Mainieri, Samuel Morin, Markus Stoffel, Brice Martin, and Mohamed Naaim Physics
[Experimental observation of the geostrophic turbulence regime of rapidly rotating convection](
Vincent Bouillaut, Benjamin Miquel, Keith Julien, Sébastien Aumaître, and Basile Gallet
[Berry curvature generation detected by Nernst responses in ferroelectric Weyl semimetal](
Cheng-Long Zhang, Tian Liang, M. S. Bahramy, Naoki Ogawa, Vilmos Kocsis, Kentaro Ueda, Yoshio Kaneko, Markus Kriener, and Yoshinori Tokura
[Ground-state phase diagram of the t-t′-J model](
Shengtao Jiang, Douglas J. Scalapino, and Steven R. White --------------------------------------------------------------- Social Sciences
Anthropology
[News Feature: What was the first “art”? How would we know?](
Amy McDermott Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
[Empirical audit and review and an assessment of evidentiary value in research on the psychological consequences of scarcity](
Michael O’Donnell, Amelia S. Dev, Stephen Antonoplis, Stephen M. Baum, Arianna H. Benedetti, N. Derek Brown, Belinda Carrillo, Andrew L. Choi, Paul Connor, Kristin Donnelly, Monica E. Ellwood-Lowe, Ruthe Foushee, Rachel Jansen, Shoshana N. Jarvis, Ryan Lundell-Creagh, Joseph M. Ocampo, Gold N. Okafor, Zahra Rahmani Azad, Michael Rosenblum, Derek Schatz, Daniel H. Stein, Yilu Wang, Don A. Moore, and Leif D. Nelson Sustainability Science
[Agricultural expansion and the ecological marginalization of forest-dependent people](
Christian Levers, Alfredo Romero-Muñoz, Matthias Baumann, Teresa De Marzo, Pedro David Fernández, Nestor Ignacio Gasparri, Gregorio Ignacio Gavier-Pizarro, Yann le Polain de Waroux, MarĂa Piquer-RodrĂguez, AsunciĂłn Semper-Pascual, and Tobias Kuemmerle --------------------------------------------------------------- Biological Sciences
Agricultural Sciences
[A designer rice NLR immune receptor confers resistance to the rice blast fungus carrying noncorresponding avirulence effectors](
Yang Liu, Xin Zhang, Guixin Yuan, Dongli Wang, Yangyang Zheng, Mengqi Ma, Liwei Guo, Vijai Bhadauria, You-Liang Peng, and Junfeng Liu Anthropology
[Estimating sexual size dimorphism in fossil species from posterior probability densities](
Tomohiko Sasaki, Sileshi Semaw, Michael J. Rogers, Scott W. Simpson, Yonas Beyene, Berhane Asfaw, Tim D. White, and Gen Suwa Biochemistry
[Vascular KATP channel structural dynamics reveal regulatory mechanism by Mg-nucleotides](
Min Woo Sung, Zhongying Yang, Camden M. Driggers, Bruce L. Patton, Barmak Mostofian, John D. Russo, Daniel M. Zuckerman, and Show-Ling Shyng
[Conformation-sensitive antibody reveals an altered cytosolic PAS/CNBh assembly during hERG channel gating](
Carol A. Harley, Ganeko Bernardo-Seisdedos, Whitney A. Stevens-Sostre, David K. Jones, Maria M. Azevedo, Paula Sampaio, Marta Lorga-Gomes, Matthew C. Trudeau, Oscar Millet, Gail A. Robertson, and JoĂŁo H. Morais-Cabral Biophysics and Computational Biology
[Configurational fingerprints of multicellular living systems](
Haiqian Yang, Adrian F. Pegoraro, Yulong Han, Wenhui Tang, Rohan Abeyaratne, Dapeng Bi, and Ming Guo
[Accurate model of liquid–liquid phase behavior of intrinsically disordered proteins from optimization of single-chain properties](
Giulio Tesei, Thea K. Schulze, Ramon Crehuet, and Kresten Lindorff-Larsen Cell Biology
[Calcineurin regulates the stability and activity of estrogen receptor α](
Takahiro Masaki, Makoto Habara, Yuki Sato, Takahiro Goshima, Keisuke Maeda, Shunsuke Hanaki, and Midori Shimada
[Serum apolipoprotein A-I depletion is causative to silica nanoparticles–induced cardiovascular damage](
Xuting Liu, Wei Wei, Zixuan Liu, Erqun Song, Jianlin Lou, Lingfang Feng, Rongchong Huang, Chunying Chen, Pu Chun Ke, and Yang Song
[MDM2, MDMX, and p73 regulate cell-cycle progression in the absence of wild-type p53](
Alyssa M. Klein, Lynn Biderman, David Tong, Bita Alaghebandan, Sakina A. Plumber, Helen S. Mueller, Anne van Vlimmeren, Chen Katz, and Carol Prives Developmental Biology
[Mammalian sperm hyperactivation regulates navigation via physical boundaries and promotes pseudo-chemotaxis](
Meisam Zaferani, Susan S. Suarez, and Alireza Abbaspourrad Environmental Sciences
[Experimental evidence for neonicotinoid driven decline in aquatic emerging insects](
S. Henrik Barmentlo, Maarten Schrama, Geert R. de Snoo, Peter M. van Bodegom, André van Nieuwenhuijzen, and Martina G. Vijver
[Fevers and the social costs of acute infection in wild vervet monkeys](
Richard McFarland, S. Peter Henzi, Louise Barrett, Tyler Bonnell, Andrea Fuller, Christopher Young, and Robyn S. Hetem Evolution
[Mammalian face as an evolutionary novelty](
Hiroki Higashiyama, Daisuke Koyabu, Tatsuya Hirasawa, Ingmar Werneburg, Shigeru Kuratani, and Hiroki Kurihara Immunology and Inflammation
[A class II MHC-targeted vaccine elicits immunity against SARS-CoV-2 and its variants](
Novalia Pishesha, Thibault J. Harmand, Paul W. Rothlauf, Patrique Praest, Ryan K. Alexander, Renate van den Doel, Mariel J. Liebeskind, Maria A. Vakaki, Nicholas McCaul, Charlotte Wijne, Elisha Verhaar, William Pinney III, Hailey Heston, Louis-Marie Bloyet, Marjorie Cornejo Pontelli, Ma. Xenia G. Ilagan, Robert Jan Lebbink, William J. Buchser, Emmanuel J. H. J. Wiertz, Sean P. J. Whelan, and Hidde L. Ploegh Medical Sciences
[d-mannose suppresses oxidative response and blocks phagocytosis in experimental neuroinflammation](
Jing Wang, Negin Jalali Motlagh, Cuihua Wang, Gregory R. Wojtkiewicz, Stephan Schmidt, Cindy Chau, Radha Narsimhan, Enrico G. Kullenberg, Cindy Zhu, Jenny Linnoila, Zhenwei Yao, and John W. Chen
[HIF-1–regulated expression of calreticulin promotes breast tumorigenesis and progression through Wnt/β-catenin pathway activation](
Xiaoxu Liu, Peiling Xie, Na Hao, Miao Zhang, Yang Liu, Peijun Liu, Gregg L. Semenza, Jianjun He, and Huimin Zhang Microbiology
[Cryo-EM structure of the needle filament tip complex of the Salmonella type III secretion injectisome](
Emily Z. Guo and Jorge E. Galán
[Double peroxidase and histone acetyltransferase AgTip60 maintain innate immune memory in primed mosquitoes](
Fabio M. Gomes, Miles D. W. Tyner, Ana Beatriz F. Barletta, Banhisikha Saha, Lampouguin Yenkoidiok-Douti, Gaspar E. Canepa, Alvaro Molina-Cruz, and Carolina Barillas-Mury
[Yersiniabactin contributes to overcoming zinc restriction during Yersinia pestis infection of mammalian and insect hosts](
Sarah L. Price, Viveka Vadyvaloo, Jennifer K. DeMarco, Amanda Brady, Phoenix A. Gray, Thomas E. Kehl-Fie, Sylvie Garneau-Tsodikova, Robert D. Perry, and Matthew B. Lawrenz
[Demonstration of the role of cell wall homeostasis in Staphylococcus aureus growth and the action of bactericidal antibiotics](
Bartłomiej Salamaga, Lingyuan Kong, Laia Pasquina-Lemonche, Lucia Lafage, Milena von und zur Muhlen, Josie F. Gibson, Danyil Grybchuk, Amy K. Tooke, Viralkumar Panchal, Elizabeth J. Culp, Elizabeth Tatham, Mary E. O’Kane, Thomas E. Catley, Stephen A. Renshaw, Gerard D. Wright, Pavel Plevka, Per A. Bullough, Aidong Han, Jamie K. Hobbs, and Simon J. Foster
[SARS-CoV-2 evolution in animals suggests mechanisms for rapid variant selection](
Laura Bashor, Roderick B. Gagne, Angela M. Bosco-Lauth, Richard A. Bowen, Mark Stenglein, and Sue VandeWoude
[Phase separation in the outer membrane of Escherichia coli](
Georgina Benn, Irina V. Mikheyeva, Patrick George Inns, Joel C. Forster, Nikola Ojkic, Christian Bortolini, Maxim G. Ryadnov, Colin Kleanthous, Thomas J. Silhavy, and Bart W. Hoogenboom Neuroscience
[An uncommon neuronal class conveys visual signals from rods and cones to retinal ganglion cells](
Brent K. Young, Charu Ramakrishnan, Tushar Ganjawala, Ping Wang, Karl Deisseroth, and Ning Tian
[Power spectra reveal distinct BOLD resting-state time courses in white matter](
Muwei Li, Yurui Gao, Zhaohua Ding, and John C. Gore
[Live agent preference and social action monitoring in the macaque mid-superior temporal sulcus region](
Taihei Ninomiya, Atsushi Noritake, and Masaki Isoda
[The middle cingulate cortex and dorso-central insula: A mirror circuit encoding observation and execution of vitality forms](
G. Di Cesare, M. Marchi, G. Lombardi, M. Gerbella, A. Sciutti, and G. Rizzolatti Plant Biology
[Kinetic proofreading of lipochitooligosaccharides determines signal activation of symbiotic plant receptors](
Kira Gysel, Mette Laursen, Mikkel B. Thygesen, Damiano Lironi, Zoltán Bozsóki, Christian T. Hjuler, Nicolai N. Maolanon, Jeryl Cheng, Peter K. Bjørk, Maria Vinther, Lene H. Madsen, Henriette Rübsam, Artur Muszyński, Arshia Ghodrati, Parastoo Azadi, John T. Sullivan, Clive W. Ronson, Knud J. Jensen, Mickaël Blaise, Simona Radutoiu, Jens Stougaard, and Kasper R. Andersen Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
[News Feature: What was the first “art”? How would we know?](
Amy McDermott Sustainability Science
[IPM reduces insecticide applications by 95% while maintaining or enhancing crop yields through wild pollinator conservation](
Jacob R. Pecenka, Laura L. Ingwell, Rick E. Foster, Christian H. Krupke, and Ian Kaplan
[Agricultural expansion and the ecological marginalization of forest-dependent people](
Christian Levers, Alfredo Romero-Muñoz, Matthias Baumann, Teresa De Marzo, Pedro David Fernández, Nestor Ignacio Gasparri, Gregorio Ignacio Gavier-Pizarro, Yann le Polain de Waroux, MarĂa Piquer-RodrĂguez, AsunciĂłn Semper-Pascual, and Tobias Kuemmerle --------------------------------------------------------------- Letters
[Assessment of potential SARS-CoV-2 virus integration into human genome reveals no significant impact on RT-qPCR COVID-19 testing](
Erica Briggs, William Ward, Sol Rey, Dylan Law, Katharine Nelson, Michael Bois, Nili Ostrov, Henry H. Lee, Jon M. Laurent, and Paolo Mita
[Reply to Briggs et al.: Genomic integration and expression of SARS-CoV-2 sequences can explain prolonged or recurrent viral RNA detection](
Liguo Zhang, Alexsia Richards, M. Inmaculada Barrasa, Stephen H. Hughes, Richard A. Young, and Rudolf Jaenisch --------------------------------------------------------------- Retraction
[Retraction for Nojiri et al., Atrial natriuretic peptide prevents cancer metastasis through vascular endothelial cells]( [Cover] --------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to {EMAIL}. [Unsubscribe]( from or [edit]( your subscription for this service.
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