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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Early Edition articles for 30 July 2013

Letters (Online Only)

Estimation models describe well collective decisions among three options: Alfonso Pérez-Escudero, Noam Miller, Andrew T. Hartnett, Simon Garnier, Iain D. Couzin, and Gonzalo G. de Polavieja

Lack of chronological support for stepwise prehuman extinctions of Australian megafauna: Barry W. Brook, Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Alan Cooper, Christopher N. Johnson, Trevor H. Worthy, Michael Bird, Richard Gillespie, and Richard G. Roberts

Reply to Brook et al: No empirical evidence for human overkill of megafauna in Sahul: Stephen Wroe, Judith H. Field, Michael Archer, Donald K. Grayson, Gilbert J. Price, Julien Louys, J. Tyler Faith, Gregory E. Webb, Iain Davidson, and Scott D. Mooney

Retrospective

Ken Wilson: A scientific appreciation: Frank A. Wilczek

Commentaries

Rapid accumulation of committed sea-level rise from global warming: Benjamin H. Strauss

Model theory and the cardinal numbers 𝔭 and 𝔱: Justin Tatch Moore

Reducing maternal weight improves offspring metabolism and alters (or modulates) methylation: Mary Elizabeth Patti

Physical Sciences

Applied Physical Sciences

COPI buds 60-nm lipid droplets from reconstituted water–phospholipid–triacylglyceride interfaces, suggesting a tension clamp function: Abdou Rachid Thiam, Bruno Antonny, Jing Wang, Jérôme Delacotte, Florian Wilfling, Tobias C. Walther, Rainer Beck, James E. Rothman, and Frédéric Pincet

High thermoelectric performance by resonant dopant indium in nanostructured SnTe: Qian Zhang, Bolin Liao, Yucheng Lan, Kevin Lukas, Weishu Liu, Keivan Esfarjani, Cyril Opeil, David Broido, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren

From the physics of interacting polymers to optimizing routes on the London Underground: Chi Ho Yeung, David Saad, and K. Y. Michael Wong

Open-atmosphere sustenance of highly volatile attoliter-size droplets on surfaces: Patrick Galliker, Julian Schneider, Lukas Rüthemann, and Dimos Poulikakos

Hyperuniformity in amorphous silicon based on the measurement of the infinite-wavelength limit of the structure factor: Ruobing Xie, Gabrielle G. Long, Steven J. Weigand, Simon C. Moss, Tobi Carvalho, Sjoerd Roorda, Miroslav Hejna, Salvatore Torquato, and Paul J. Steinhardt

Polysaccharide hydrogels with tunable stiffness and provasculogenic properties via α-helix to β-sheet switch in secondary structure OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE: Aurelien Forget, Jon Christensen, Steffen Lüdeke, Esther Kohler, Simon Tobias, Maziar Matloubi, Ralf Thomann, and V. Prasad Shastri

Astronomy

Seismic constraints on rotation of Sun-like star and mass of exoplanet: Laurent Gizon, Jérome Ballot, Eric Michel, Thorsten Stahn, Gérard Vauclair, Hans Bruntt, Pierre-Olivier Quirion, Othman Benomar, Sylvie Vauclair, Thierry Appourchaux, Michel Auvergne, Annie Baglin, Caroline Barban, Fréderic Baudin, Michaël Bazot, Tiago Campante, Claude Catala, William Chaplin, Orlagh Creevey, Sébastien Deheuvels, Noël Dolez, Yvonne Elsworth, Rafael García, Patrick Gaulme, Stéphane Mathis, Savita Mathur, Benoît Mosser, Clara Régulo, Ian Roxburgh, David Salabert, Réza Samadi, Kumiko Sato, Graham Verner, Shravan Hanasoge, and Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Chemistry

How hydrophobic drying forces impact the kinetics of molecular recognition: Jagannath Mondal, Joseph A. Morrone, and B. J. Berne

Nucleobases bind to and stabilize aggregates of a prebiotic amphiphile, providing a viable mechanism for the emergence of protocells: Roy A. Black, Matthew C. Blosser, Benjamin L. Stottrup, Ravi Tavakley, David W. Deamer, and Sarah L. Keller

A bacterial symbiont is converted from an inedible producer of beneficial molecules into food by a single mutation in the gacA gene OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE: Pierre Stallforth, Debra A. Brock, Alexandra M. Cantley, Xiangjun Tian, David C. Queller, Joan E. Strassmann, and Jon Clardy

Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences

Oxygen, ecology, and the Cambrian radiation of animals: Erik A. Sperling, Christina A. Frieder, Akkur V. Raman, Peter R. Girguis, Lisa A. Levin, and Andrew H. Knoll

Dynamic model constraints on oxygen-17 depletion in atmospheric O₂ after a snowball Earth: Xiaobin Cao and Huiming Bao

Clades reach highest morphological disparity early in their evolution: Martin Hughes, Sylvain Gerber, and Matthew Albion Wills

Engineering

Effect of cholesterol nanodomains on monolayer morphology and dynamics: KyuHan Kim, Siyoung Q. Choi, Zachary A. Zell, Todd M. Squires, and Joseph A. Zasadzinski

Lipid bilayer and cytoskeletal interactions in a red blood cell OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE: Zhangli Peng, Xuejin Li, Igor V. Pivkin, Ming Dao, George E. Karniadakis, and Subra Suresh

Environmental Sciences

Unexpectedly high indoor hydroxyl radical concentrations associated with nitrous acid OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE: Elena Gómez Alvarez, Damien Amedro, Charbel Afif, Sasho Gligorovski, Coralie Schoemacker, Christa Fittschen, Jean-Francois Doussin, and Henri Wortham

Physics

Random network peristalsis in Physarum polycephalum organizes fluid flows across an individual: Karen Alim, Gabriel Amselem, François Peaudecerf, Michael P. Brenner, and Anne Pringle

Statistics

On the origins of hierarchy in complex networks: Bernat Corominas-Murtra, Joaquín Goñi, Ricard V. Solé, and Carlos Rodríguez-Caso

Social Sciences

Anthropology

Reproductive aging patterns in primates reveal that humans are distinct OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE: Susan C. Alberts, Jeanne Altmann, Diane K. Brockman, Marina Cords, Linda M. Fedigan, Anne Pusey, Tara S. Stoinski, Karen B. Strier, William F. Morris, and Anne M. Bronikowski

Political Sciences

Mass support for global climate agreements depends on institutional design OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE: Michael M. Bechtel and Kenneth F. Scheve

Psychological and Cognitive Sciences

Ant colonies outperform individuals when a sensory discrimination task is difficult but not when it is easy: Takao Sasaki, Boris Granovskiy, Richard P. Mann, David J. T. Sumpter, and Stephen C. Pratt

Sustainability Science

Mass support for global climate agreements depends on institutional design OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE: Michael M. Bechtel and Kenneth F. Scheve

Biological Sciences

Anthropology

Male infanticide leads to social monogamy in primates OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE: Christopher Opie, Quentin D. Atkinson, Robin I. M. Dunbar, and Susanne Shultz

Archaeological, radiological, and biological evidence offer insight into Inca child sacrifice: Andrew S. Wilson, Emma L. Brown, Chiara Villa, Niels Lynnerup, Andrew Healey, Maria Constanza Ceruti, Johan Reinhard, Carlos H. Previgliano, Facundo Arias Araoz, Josefina Gonzalez Diez, and Timothy Taylor

Biochemistry

Microsatellite-encoded domain in rodent Sry functions as a genetic capacitor to enable the rapid evolution of biological novelty: Yen-Shan Chen, Joseph D. Racca, Paul W. Sequeira, Nelson B. Phillips, and Michael A. Weiss

COPI buds 60-nm lipid droplets from reconstituted water–phospholipid–triacylglyceride interfaces, suggesting a tension clamp function: Abdou Rachid Thiam, Bruno Antonny, Jing Wang, Jérôme Delacotte, Florian Wilfling, Tobias C. Walther, Rainer Beck, James E. Rothman, and Frédéric Pincet

Nucleobases bind to and stabilize aggregates of a prebiotic amphiphile, providing a viable mechanism for the emergence of protocells: Roy A. Black, Matthew C. Blosser, Benjamin L. Stottrup, Ravi Tavakley, David W. Deamer, and Sarah L. Keller

Human eIF4E promotes mRNA restructuring by stimulating eIF4A helicase activity: Kateryna Feoktistova, Enkhee Tuvshintogs, Angelie Do, and Christopher S. Fraser

Structural basis of Vps33A recruitment to the human HOPS complex by Vps16 OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE: Stephen C. Graham, Lena Wartosch, Sally R. Gray, Edward J. Scourfield, Janet E. Deane, J. Paul Luzio, and David J. Owen

Polyglutamine domain flexibility mediates the proximity between flanking sequences in huntingtin OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE: Nicholas Stephane Caron, Carly Robyn Desmond, Jianrun Xia, and Ray Truant

Prereplicative repair of oxidized bases in the human genome is mediated by NEIL1 DNA glycosylase together with replication proteins: Muralidhar L. Hegde, Pavana M. Hegde, Larry J. Bellot, Santi M. Mandal, Tapas K. Hazra, Guo-Min Li, Istvan Boldogh, Alan E. Tomkinson, and Sankar Mitra

Mod5 protein binds to tRNA gene complexes and affects local transcriptional silencing: Matthew Pratt-Hyatt, Dave A. Pai, Rebecca A. Haeusler, Glenn G. Wozniak, Paul D. Good, Erin L. Miller, Ian X. McLeod, John R. Yates III, Anita K. Hopper, and David R. Engelke

Identification of the molecular attributes required for aminoglycoside activity against Leishmania: Moran Shalev, Jiro Kondo, Dmitry Kopelyanskiy, Charles L. Jaffe, Noam Adir, and Timor Baasov

Insight into mechanisms of 3′-5′ exonuclease activity and removal of bulky 8,5′-cyclopurine adducts by apurinic/apyrimidinic endonucleases OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE: Abdelghani Mazouzi, Armelle Vigouroux, Bulat Aikeshev, Philip J. Brooks, Murat K. Saparbaev, Solange Morera, and Alexander A. Ishchenko

Biophysics and Computational Biology

How hydrophobic drying forces impact the kinetics of molecular recognition: Jagannath Mondal, Joseph A. Morrone, and B. J. Berne

Effect of cholesterol nanodomains on monolayer morphology and dynamics: KyuHan Kim, Siyoung Q. Choi, Zachary A. Zell, Todd M. Squires, and Joseph A. Zasadzinski

Conformations of intrinsically disordered proteins are influenced by linear sequence distributions of oppositely charged residues OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE: Rahul K. Das and Rohit V. Pappu

Structures of P-glycoprotein reveal its conformational flexibility and an epitope on the nucleotide-binding domain: Andrew B. Ward, Paul Szewczyk, Vinciane Grimard, Chang-Wook Lee, Lorena Martinez, Rupak Doshi, Alexandra Caya, Mark Villaluz, Els Pardon, Cristina Cregger, Douglas J. Swartz, Pierre Guy Falson, Ina L. Urbatsch, Cedric Govaerts, Jan Steyaert, and Geoffrey Chang

Structural and dynamic studies of the transcription factor ERG reveal DNA binding is allosterically autoinhibited: Michael C. Regan, Peter S. Horanyi, Edward E. Pryor, Jr., Jessica L. Sarver, David S. Cafiso, and John H. Bushweller

Membrane extraction of Rab proteins by GDP dissociation inhibitor characterized using attenuated total reflection infrared spectroscopy: Konstantin Gavriljuk, Aymelt Itzen, Roger S. Goody, Klaus Gerwert, and Carsten Kötting

Random network peristalsis in Physarum polycephalum organizes fluid flows across an individual: Karen Alim, Gabriel Amselem, François Peaudecerf, Michael P. Brenner, and Anne Pringle

Lipid bilayer and cytoskeletal interactions in a red blood cell OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE: Zhangli Peng, Xuejin Li, Igor V. Pivkin, Ming Dao, George E. Karniadakis, and Subra Suresh

Characterization of an early-stage fusion intermediate of Sindbis virus using cryoelectron microscopy: Sheng Cao and Wei Zhang

Coarse-grained, foldable, physical model of the polypeptide chain: Promita Chakraborty and Ronald N. Zuckermann

Cell Biology

Selective activation of oxidized PTP1B by the thioredoxin system modulates PDGF-β receptor tyrosine kinase signaling OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE: Markus Dagnell, Jeroen Frijhoff, Irina Pader, Martin Augsten, Benoit Boivin, Jianqiang Xu, Pankaj K. Mandal, Nicholas K. Tonks, Carina Hellberg, Marcus Conrad, Elias S. J. Arnér, and Arne Östman

Aurora B and Cdk1 mediate Wapl activation and release of acetylated cohesin from chromosomes by phosphorylating Sororin: Tomoko Nishiyama, Martina M. Sykora, Pim J. Huis in 't Veld, Karl Mechtler, and Jan-Michael Peters

Protective effect of mitochondria-targeted antioxidants in an acute bacterial infection: Egor Y. Plotnikov, Maria A. Morosanova, Irina B. Pevzner, Ljubava D. Zorova, Vasily N. Manskikh, Natalya V. Pulkova, Svetlana I. Galkina, Vladimir P. Skulachev, and Dmitry B. Zorov

Polysaccharide hydrogels with tunable stiffness and provasculogenic properties via α-helix to β-sheet switch in secondary structure OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE: Aurelien Forget, Jon Christensen, Steffen Lüdeke, Esther Kohler, Simon Tobias, Maziar Matloubi, Ralf Thomann, and V. Prasad Shastri

Developmental Biology

Translational profiling of cardiomyocytes identifies an early Jak1/Stat3 injury response required for zebrafish heart regeneration: Yi Fang, Vikas Gupta, Ravi Karra, Jennifer E. Holdway, Kazu Kikuchi, and Kenneth D. Poss

MicroRNA-126–mediated control of cell fate in B-cell myeloid progenitors as a potential alternative to transcriptional factors: Kazuki Okuyama, Tomokatsu Ikawa, Bernhard Gentner, Katsuto Hozumi, Ratanakanit Harnprasopwat, Jun Lu, Riu Yamashita, Daon Ha, Takae Toyoshima, Bidisha Chanda, Toyotaka Kawamata, Kazuaki Yokoyama, Shusheng Wang, Kiyoshi Ando, Harvey F. Lodish, Arinobu Tojo, Hiroshi Kawamoto, and Ai Kotani

Ecology

Community-level phenological response to climate change: Otso Ovaskainen, Svetlana Skorokhodova, Marina Yakovleva, Alexander Sukhov, Anatoliy Kutenkov, Nadezhda Kutenkova, Anatoliy Shcherbakov, Evegeniy Meyke, and Maria del Mar Delgado

A bacterial symbiont is converted from an inedible producer of beneficial molecules into food by a single mutation in the gacA gene OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE: Pierre Stallforth, Debra A. Brock, Alexandra M. Cantley, Xiangjun Tian, David C. Queller, Joan E. Strassmann, and Jon Clardy

Ant colonies outperform individuals when a sensory discrimination task is difficult but not when it is easy: Takao Sasaki, Boris Granovskiy, Richard P. Mann, David J. T. Sumpter, and Stephen C. Pratt

Environmental Sciences

Variations in atmospheric CO₂ growth rates coupled with tropical temperature: Weile Wang, Philippe Ciais, Ramakrishna R. Nemani, Josep G. Canadell, Shilong Piao, Stephen Sitch, Michael A. White, Hirofumi Hashimoto, Cristina Milesi, and Ranga B. Myneni

Evolution

Reproductive aging patterns in primates reveal that humans are distinct OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE: Susan C. Alberts, Jeanne Altmann, Diane K. Brockman, Marina Cords, Linda M. Fedigan, Anne Pusey, Tara S. Stoinski, Karen B. Strier, William F. Morris, and Anne M. Bronikowski

Oxygen, ecology, and the Cambrian radiation of animals: Erik A. Sperling, Christina A. Frieder, Akkur V. Raman, Peter R. Girguis, Lisa A. Levin, and Andrew H. Knoll

Genomic evolution and transmission of Helicobacter pylori in two South African families: Xavier Didelot, Sandra Nell, Ines Yang, Sabrina Woltemate, Schalk van der Merwe, and Sebastian Suerbaum

Rapid shifts in dispersal behavior on an expanding range edge: Tom Lindström, Gregory P. Brown, Scott A. Sisson, Benjamin L. Phillips, and Richard Shine

On the origins of hierarchy in complex networks: Bernat Corominas-Murtra, Joaquín Goñi, Ricard V. Solé, and Carlos Rodríguez-Caso

Clades reach highest morphological disparity early in their evolution: Martin Hughes, Sylvain Gerber, and Matthew Albion Wills

Genetics

Whole-genome sequencing identifies a recurrent functional synonymous mutation in melanoma: Jared J. Gartner, Stephen C. J. Parker, Todd D. Prickett, Ken Dutton-Regester, Michael L. Stitzel, Jimmy C. Lin, Sean Davis, Vijaya L. Simhadri, Sujata Jha, Nobuko Katagiri, Valer Gotea, Jamie K. Teer, Xiaomu Wei, Mario A. Morken, Umesh K. Bhanot, NISC Comparative Sequencing Program, Guo Chen, Laura L. Elnitski, Michael A. Davies, Jeffrey E. Gershenwald, Hannah Carter, Rachel Karchin, William Robinson, Steven Robinson, Steven A. Rosenberg, Francis S. Collins, Giovanni Parmigiani, Anton A. Komar, Chava Kimchi-Sarfaty, Nicholas K. Hayward, Elliott H. Margulies, and Yardena Samuels

Pinpointing genes underlying the quantitative trait loci for root-knot nematode resistance in palaeopolyploid soybean by whole genome resequencing OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE: Xiangyang Xu, Liang Zeng, Ye Tao, Tri Vuong, Jinrong Wan, Roger Boerma, Jim Noe, Zenglu Li, Steve Finnerty, Safiullah M. Pathan, J. Grover Shannon, and Henry T. Nguyen

Genetic measurement of memory B-cell recall using antibody repertoire sequencing OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE: Christopher Vollmers, Rene V. Sit, Joshua A. Weinstein, Cornelia L. Dekker, and Stephen R. Quake

Break-induced replication occurs by conservative DNA synthesis: Roberto A. Donnianni and Lorraine S. Symington

Rates and patterns of great ape retrotransposition: Fereydoun Hormozdiari, Miriam K. Konkel, Javier Prado-Martinez, Giorgia Chiatante, Irene Hernando Herraez, Jerilyn A. Walker, Benjamin Nelson, Can Alkan, Peter H. Sudmant, John Huddleston, Claudia R. Catacchio, Arthur Ko, Maika Malig, Carl Baker, Great Ape Genome Project, Tomas Marques-Bonet, Mario Ventura, Mark A. Batzer, and Evan E. Eichler

Immunology

Structural basis for the stabilization of the complement alternative pathway C3 convertase by properdin: Martín Alcorlo, Agustín Tortajada, Santiago Rodríguez de Córdoba, and Oscar Llorca

Virtual memory CD8 T cells display unique functional properties: June-Yong Lee, Sara E. Hamilton, Adovi D. Akue, Kristin A. Hogquist, and Stephen C. Jameson

MAIT cells are critical for optimal mucosal immune responses during in vivo pulmonary bacterial infection: Anda Meierovics, Wei-Jen Chua Yankelevich, and Siobhán C. Cowley

Acute inflammation primes myeloid effector cells for anti-inflammatory STAT6 signaling: Fredrik Wermeling, Robert M. Anthony, Frank Brombacher, and Jeffrey V. Ravetch

Interferon-induced RIP1/RIP3-mediated necrosis requires PKR and is licensed by FADD and caspases: Roshan J. Thapa, Shoko Nogusa, Peirong Chen, Jenny L. Maki, Anthony Lerro, Mark Andrake, Glenn F. Rall, Alexei Degterev, and Siddharth Balachandran

Teleost skin, an ancient mucosal surface that elicits gut-like immune responses: Zhen Xu, David Parra, Daniela Gómez, Irene Salinas, Yong-An Zhang, Louise von Gersdorff Jørgensen, Rasmus Demuth Heinecke, Kurt Buchmann, Scott LaPatra, and J. Oriol Sunyer

Medical Sciences

Reexpression of pyruvate kinase M2 in type 1 myofibers correlates with altered glucose metabolism in myotonic dystrophy: Zhihua Gao and Thomas A. Cooper

Acute myeloid leukemia does not deplete normal hematopoietic stem cells but induces cytopenias by impeding their differentiation: Farideh Miraki-Moud, Fernando Anjos-Afonso, Katharine A. Hodby, Emmanuel Griessinger, Guglielmo Rosignoli, Debra Lillington, Li Jia, Jeff K. Davies, Jamie Cavenagh, Matthew Smith, Heather Oakervee, Samir Agrawal, John G. Gribben, Dominique Bonnet, and David C. Taussig

BRCA1 promotes the ubiquitination of PCNA and recruitment of translesion polymerases in response to replication blockade: Fen Tian, Shilpy Sharma, Jianqiu Zou, Shiaw-Yih Lin, Bin Wang, Khosrow Rezvani, Hongmin Wang, Jeffrey D. Parvin, Thomas Ludwig, Christine E. Canman, and Dong Zhang

Multiple antigen-presenting system (MAPS) to induce comprehensive B- and T-cell immunity: Fan Zhang, Ying-Jie Lu, and Richard Malley

Targeting proximal tubule mitochondrial dysfunction attenuates the renal disease of methylmalonic acidemia OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE: Irini Manoli, Justin R. Sysol, Lingli Li, Pascal Houillier, Caterina Garone, Cindy Wang, Patricia M. Zerfas, Kristina Cusmano-Ozog, Sarah Young, Niraj S. Trivedi, Jun Cheng, Jennifer L. Sloan, Randy J. Chandler, Mones Abu-Asab, Maria Tsokos, Abdel G. Elkahloun, Seymour Rosen, Gregory M. Enns, Gerard T. Berry, Victoria Hoffmann, Salvatore DiMauro, Jurgen Schnermann, and Charles P. Venditti

SIRT2 directs the replication stress response through CDK9 deacetylation: Hui Zhang, Seong-Hoon Park, Brooke G. Pantazides, Oleksandra Karpiuk, Matthew D. Warren, Claire W. Hardy, Duc M. Duong, So-Jeong Park, Hyun-Seok Kim, Athanassios Vassilopoulos, Nicholas T. Seyfried, Steven A. Johnsen, David Gius, and David S. Yu

Epoxyeicosanoids promote organ and tissue regeneration OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE: Dipak Panigrahy, Brian T. Kalish, Sui Huang, Diane R. Bielenberg, Hau D. Le, Jun Yang, Matthew L. Edin, Craig R. Lee, Ofra Benny, Dayna K. Mudge, Catherine E. Butterfield, Akiko Mammoto, Tadanori Mammoto, Bora Inceoglu, Roger L. Jenkins, Mary A. Simpson, Tomoshige Akino, Fred B. Lih, Kenneth B. Tomer, Donald E. Ingber, Bruce D. Hammock, John R. Falck, Vijaya L. Manthati, Arja Kaipainen, Patricia A. D'Amore, Mark Puder, Darryl C. Zeldin, and Mark W. Kieran

RARα-PLZF oncogene inhibits C/EBPα function in myeloid cells: Nathalie Girard, Mathieu Tremblay, Magali Humbert, Benoît Grondin, André Haman, Jean Labrecque, Bing Chen, Zhu Chen, Sai-Juan Chen, and Trang Hoang

Microbiology

Metagenomic natural product discovery in lichen provides evidence for a family of biosynthetic pathways in diverse symbioses: Annette Kampa, Andrey N. Gagunashvili, Tobias A. M. Gulder, Brandon I. Morinaka, Cristina Daolio, Markus Godejohann, Vivian P. W. Miao, Jörn Piel, and Ólafur S. Andrésson

Induction of IL-17 and nonclassical T-cell activation by HIV-Tat protein: Tory P. Johnson, Karan Patel, Kory R. Johnson, Dragan Maric, Peter A. Calabresi, Rodrigo Hasbun, and Avindra Nath

Metabolic niche of a prominent sulfate-reducing human gut bacterium OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE: Federico E. Rey, Mark D. Gonzalez, Jiye Cheng, Meng Wu, Philip P. Ahern, and Jeffrey I. Gordon

Neuroscience

Brain–computer interfaces increase whole-brain signal to noise OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE: T. Dorina Papageorgiou, Jonathan M. Lisinski, Monica A. McHenry, Jason P. White, and Stephen M. LaConte

Poststimulus undershoots in cerebral blood flow and BOLD fMRI responses are modulated by poststimulus neuronal activity OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE: Karen J. Mullinger, Stephen D. Mayhew, Andrew P. Bagshaw, Richard Bowtell, and Susan T. Francis

Sound response mediated by the TRP channels NOMPC, NANCHUNG, and INACTIVE in chordotonal organs of Drosophila larvae: Wei Zhang, Zhiqiang Yan, Lily Yeh Jan, and Yuh Nung Jan

Speed-invariant encoding of looming object distance requires power law spike rate adaptation: Stephen E. Clarke, Richard Naud, André Longtin, and Leonard Maler

Energetic cost of brain functional connectivity: Dardo Tomasi, Gene-Jack Wang, and Nora D. Volkow

Heparan sulfate proteoglycans mediate internalization and propagation of specific proteopathic seeds: Brandon B. Holmes, Sarah L. DeVos, Najla Kfoury, Mei Li, Rachel Jacks, Kiran Yanamandra, Mohand O. Ouidja, Frances M. Brodsky, Jayne Marasa, Devika P. Bagchi, Paul T. Kotzbauer, Timothy M. Miller, Dulce Papy-Garcia, and Marc I. Diamond

SOX2–LIN28/let-7 pathway regulates proliferation and neurogenesis in neural precursors: Flavio Cimadamore, Alejandro Amador-Arjona, Connie Chen, Chun-Teng Huang, and Alexey V. Terskikh

Word learning is mediated by the left arcuate fasciculus: Diana López-Barroso, Marco Catani, Pablo Ripollés, Flavio Dell'Acqua, Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells, and Ruth de Diego-Balaguer

Physiology

Asymmetric transmitter binding sites of fetal muscle acetylcholine receptors shape their synaptic response: Tapan K. Nayak and Anthony Auerbach

Plant Biology

Loss of function of cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase 1 leads to unconventional lignin and a temperature-sensitive growth defect in Medicago truncatula: Qiao Zhao, Yuki Tobimatsu, Rui Zhou, Sivakumar Pattathil, Lina Gallego-Giraldo, Chunxiang Fu, Lisa A. Jackson, Michael G. Hahn, Hoon Kim, Fang Chen, John Ralph, and Richard A. Dixon

Phase-resetting mechanism of the circadian clock in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: Yoshimi Niwa, Takuya Matsuo, Kiyoshi Onai, Daisaku Kato, Makoto Tachikawa, and Masahiro Ishiura

Psychological and Cognitive Sciences

An integrated reweighting theory of perceptual learning OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE: Barbara Anne Dosher, Pamela Jeter, Jiajuan Liu, and Zhong-Lin Lu

A functional genomic perspective on human well-being OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE: Barbara L. Fredrickson, Karen M. Grewen, Kimberly A. Coffey, Sara B. Algoe, Ann M. Firestine, Jesusa M. G. Arevalo, Jeffrey Ma, and Steven W. Cole

Systems Biology