PNAS Table of Contents for January 18, 2022; Vol. 119, No. 3 is now complete

[PNAS] [PNAS Opinion: To save whales, look to the sky. Read more.](/cgi/adclick/?ad=56342&adclick=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pnas.org%2Fcontent%2F119%2F1%2Fe2121360119)   [January 18, 2022; Vol. 119, No. 3]( ) This Week in PNAS [In This Issue]( This week's research highlights --------------------------------------------------------------- Inner Workings [Inner Workings: Astronomers uncover new way to measure the speed of stars]( Ken Croswell An over-the-shoulder look at scientists at work --------------------------------------------------------------- Retrospective [A tribute to Eddy Fischer (April 6, 1920–August 27, 2021): Passionate biochemist and mentor]( Susan S. Taylor, Tony Hunter, and Jean-Pierre Changeux --------------------------------------------------------------- Commentaries [Cobalt: A must-have element for life and livelihood]( Michael J. Russell [How migratory birds might have tracked past climate change]( Benjamin M. Van Doren [A new angle on odor trail tracking]( Siddharth Jayakumar and Venkatesh N. Murthy --------------------------------------------------------------- Perspective [Celebrating 20 years of live single-actin-filament studies with five golden rules]( Hugo Wioland, Antoine Jégou, and Guillaume Romet-Lemonne --------------------------------------------------------------- Brief Report [Biosafety of human environments can be supported by effective use of renewable biomass]( Fengbo Yu, Wei Zhao, Tao Qin, Wang Zhao, Yulian Chen, Xinyu Miao, Litao Lin, Hua Shang, Guodong Sui, Daxin Peng, Yi Yang, Yongguan Zhu, Shicheng Zhang, and Xiangdong Zhu --------------------------------------------------------------- Physical Sciences Applied Physical Sciences [Conservation of magnetite biomineralization genes in all domains of life and implications for magnetic sensing]( M. Renee Bellinger, Jiandong Wei, Uwe Hartmann, Hervé Cadiou, Michael Winklhofer, and Michael A. Banks Biophysics and Computational Biology [Stem–loop formation drives RNA folding in mechanical unzipping experiments]( Paolo Rissone, Cristiano V. Bizarro, and Felix Ritort [Heterologous vaccination interventions to reduce pandemic morbidity and mortality: Modeling the US winter 2020 COVID-19 wave]( Nathaniel Hupert, Daniela Marín-Hernández, Bo Gao, Ricardo Águas, and Douglas F. Nixon Chemistry [Expanding quasiperiodicity in soft matter: Supramolecular decagonal quasicrystals by binary giant molecule blends]( Yuchu Liu, Tong Liu, Xiao-Yun Yan, Qing-Yun Guo, Huanyu Lei, Zongwu Huang, Rui Zhang, Yu Wang, Jing Wang, Feng Liu, Feng-Gang Bian, E.W. Meijer, Takuzo Aida, Mingjun Huang, and Stephen Z.D. Cheng [Microscopic mechanisms of cooperative communications within single nanocatalysts]( Bhawakshi Punia, Srabanti Chaudhury, and Anatoly B. Kolomeisky [Double-layer structure of the Pt(111)–aqueous electrolyte interface]( Kasinath Ojha, Katharina Doblhoff-Dier, and Marc T. M. Koper Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences [Volatile-consuming reactions fracture rocks and self-accelerate fluid flow in the lithosphere]( Masaoki Uno, Kodai Koyanagawa, Hisamu Kasahara, Atsushi Okamoto, and Noriyoshi Tsuchiya Engineering [An ultrafast and facile nondestructive strategy to convert various inefficient commercial nanocarbons to highly active Fenton-like catalysts]( Junhui Wang, Qi Fu, Jiaxing Yu, Huangsheng Yang, Zhengping Hao, Fang Zhu, and Gangfeng Ouyang [Role of smooth muscle activation in the static and dynamic mechanical characterization of human aortas]( Giulio Franchini, Ivan D. Breslavsky, Francesco Giovanniello, Ali Kassab, Gerhard A. Holzapfel, and Marco Amabili [Unraveling the origin of extra strengthening in gradient nanotwinned metals]( Zhao Cheng, Linfeng Bu, Yin Zhang, HengAn Wu, Ting Zhu, Huajian Gao, and Lei Lu Environmental Sciences [Thermodynamic controls on rates of iron oxide reduction by extracellular electron shuttles]( Meret Aeppli, Sébastien Giroud, Sanja Vranic, Andreas Voegelin, Thomas B. Hofstetter, and Michael Sander Physics [Direct visualization of polaron formation in the thermoelectric SnSe]( Laurent P. René de Cotret, Martin R. Otto, Jan-Hendrik Pöhls, Zhongzhen Luo, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, and Bradley J. Siwick Sustainability Science [Microestimates of wealth for all low- and middle-income countries]( Guanghua Chi, Han Fang, Sourav Chatterjee, and Joshua E. Blumenstock --------------------------------------------------------------- Social Sciences Economic Sciences [Microestimates of wealth for all low- and middle-income countries]( Guanghua Chi, Han Fang, Sourav Chatterjee, and Joshua E. Blumenstock [Global evidence on the selfish rich inequality hypothesis]( Ingvild Almås, Alexander W. Cappelen, Erik Ø. Sørensen, and Bertil Tungodden Political Sciences [Why postmortems fail]( Robert Jervis Psychological and Cognitive Sciences [Politicians polarize and experts depolarize public support for COVID-19 management policies across countries]( Alexandra Flores, Jennifer C. Cole, Stephan Dickert, Kimin Eom, Gabriela M. Jiga-Boy, Tehila Kogut, Riley Loria, Marcus Mayorga, Eric J. Pedersen, Beatriz Pereira, Enrico Rubaltelli, David K. Sherman, Paul Slovic, Daniel Västfjäll, and Leaf Van Boven Social Sciences [A guaranteed immediate payout reduces impatience of financially constrained individuals]( Kimberley van der Heijden, Anouk Festjens, Caroline Goukens, and Tom Meyvis [Spurious normativity enhances learning of compliance and enforcement behavior in artificial agents]( Raphael Köster, Dylan Hadfield-Menell, Richard Everett, Laura Weidinger, Gillian K. Hadfield, and Joel Z. Leibo --------------------------------------------------------------- Biological Sciences Biochemistry [Mitoribosomal small subunit maturation involves formation of initiation-like complexes]( Tea Lenarčič, Moritz Niemann, David J. F. Ramrath, Salvatore Calderaro, Timo Flügel, Martin Saurer, Marc Leibundgut, Daniel Boehringer, Céline Prange, Elke K. Horn, André Schneider, and Nenad Ban [Role of helical structure and dynamics in oligoadenylate synthetase 1 (OAS1) mismatch tolerance and activation by short dsRNAs]( Samantha L. Schwartz, Debayan Dey, Julia Tanquary, Camden R. Bair, Anice C. Lowen, and Graeme L. Conn [RNA polymerase II trapped on a molecular treadmill: Structural basis of persistent transcriptional arrest by a minor groove DNA binder]( Juntaek Oh, Tiezheng Jia, Jun Xu, Jenny Chong, Peter B. Dervan, and Dong Wang [Ribosomally derived lipopeptides containing distinct fatty acyl moieties]( Florian Hubrich, Nina M. Bösch, Clara Chepkirui, Brandon I. Morinaka, Michael Rust, Muriel Gugger, Serina L. Robinson, Anna L. Vagstad, and Jörn Piel Biophysics and Computational Biology [Stem–loop formation drives RNA folding in mechanical unzipping experiments]( Paolo Rissone, Cristiano V. Bizarro, and Felix Ritort [Multivalency enables unidirectional switch-like competition between intrinsically disordered proteins]( Rebecca B. Berlow, H. Jane Dyson, and Peter E. Wright Cell Biology [Open reading frame correction using splice-switching antisense oligonucleotides for the treatment of cystic fibrosis]( Wren E. Michaels, Cecilia Pena-Rasgado, Rusudan Kotaria, Robert J. Bridges, and Michelle L. Hastings [Genome-wide screens identify specific drivers of mutant hTERT promoters]( Raghuvaran Shanmugam, Mert Burak Ozturk, Joo-Leng Low, Semih Can Akincilar, Joelle Yi Heng Chua, Matan Thangavelu Thangavelu, Giridharan Periyasamy, Ramanuj DasGupta, and Vinay Tergaonkar [Reciprocal modulation of long noncoding RNA EMS and p53 regulates tumorigenesis]( Chenfeng Wang, Yang Yang, Xianning Wu, Jingxin Li, Kaiyue Liu, Debao Fang, Bingyan Li, Ge Shan, Xinyu Mei, Fang Wang, and Yide Mei Developmental Biology [Reevaluation of the role of LIP-1 as an ERK/MPK-1 dual specificity phosphatase in the C. elegans germline]( Debabrata Das, Jacob Seemann, David Greenstein, Tim Schedl, and Swathi Arur [SHORT-ROOT paralogs mediate feedforward regulation of D-type cyclin to promote nodule formation in soybean]( Chunhua Wang, Meng Li, Yang Zhao, Nengsong Liang, Haiyang Li, Pengxue Li, Liling Yang, Mengyuan Xu, Xinxin Bian, Mengxue Wang, Shasha Wu, Xufang Niu, Mengyao Wang, Xinxin Li, Yi Sang, Wentao Dong, Ertao Wang, Kimberly L. Gallagher, and Shuang Wu Ecology [Ship traffic connects Antarctica’s fragile coasts to worldwide ecosystems]( Arlie H. McCarthy, Lloyd S. Peck, and David C. Aldridge [North American tree migration paced by climate in the West, lagging in the East]( Shubhi Sharma, Robert Andrus, Yves Bergeron, Michal Bogdziewicz, Don C. Bragg, Dale Brockway, Natalie L. Cleavitt, Benoit Courbaud, Adrian J. Das, Michael Dietze, Timothy J. Fahey, Jerry F. Franklin, Gregory S. Gilbert, Cathryn H. Greenberg, Qinfeng Guo, Janneke Hille Ris Lambers, Ines Ibanez, Jill F. Johnstone, Christopher L. Kilner, Johannes M. H. Knops, Walter D. Koenig, Georges Kunstler, Jalene M. LaMontagne, Diana Macias, Emily Moran, Jonathan A. Myers, Robert Parmenter, Ian S. Pearse, Renata Poulton-Kamakura, Miranda D. Redmond, Chantal D. Reid, Kyle C. Rodman, C. Lane Scher, William H. Schlesinger, Michael A. Steele, Nathan L. Stephenson, Jennifer J. Swenson, Margaret Swift, Thomas T. Veblen, Amy V. Whipple, Thomas G. Whitham, Andreas P. Wion, Christopher W. Woodall, Roman Zlotin, and James S. Clark [Increasing instability of a rocky intertidal meta-ecosystem]( Bruce A. Menge, Sarah A. Gravem, Angela Johnson, Jonathan W. Robinson, and Brittany N. Poirson Environmental Sciences [Thermodynamic controls on rates of iron oxide reduction by extracellular electron shuttles]( Meret Aeppli, Sébastien Giroud, Sanja Vranic, Andreas Voegelin, Thomas B. Hofstetter, and Michael Sander Evolution [Conservation of magnetite biomineralization genes in all domains of life and implications for magnetic sensing]( M. Renee Bellinger, Jiandong Wei, Uwe Hartmann, Hervé Cadiou, Michael Winklhofer, and Michael A. Banks [A genetic switch for male UV iridescence in an incipient species pair of sulphur butterflies]( Vincent Ficarrotta, Joseph J. Hanly, Ling S. Loh, Caroline M. Francescutti, Anna Ren, Kalle Tunström, Christopher W. Wheat, Adam H. Porter, Brian A. Counterman, and Arnaud Martin [Genomic and transcriptomic analyses of the subterranean termite Reticulitermes speratus: Gene duplication facilitates social evolution]( Shuji Shigenobu, Yoshinobu Hayashi, Dai Watanabe, Gaku Tokuda, Masaru Y. Hojo, Kouhei Toga, Ryota Saiki, Hajime Yaguchi, Yudai Masuoka, Ryutaro Suzuki, Shogo Suzuki, Moe Kimura, Masatoshi Matsunami, Yasuhiro Sugime, Kohei Oguchi, Teruyuki Niimi, Hiroki Gotoh, Masaru K. Hojo, Satoshi Miyazaki, Atsushi Toyoda, Toru Miura, and Kiyoto Maekawa [Targeted vaccination and the speed of SARS-CoV-2 adaptation]( Sylvain Gandon and Sébastien Lion Genetics [Exon-skipping antisense oligonucleotides for cystic fibrosis therapy]( Young Jin Kim, Nicole Sivetz, Jessica Layne, Dillon M. Voss, Lucia Yang, Qian Zhang, and Adrian R. Krainer [Floxed exon (Flexon): A flexibly positioned stop cassette for recombinase-mediated conditional gene expression]( Justin M. Shaffer and Iva Greenwald [The role of ATXR6 expression in modulating genome stability and transposable element repression in Arabidopsis]( Magdalena E. Potok, Zhenhui Zhong, Colette L. Picard, Qikun Liu, Truman Do, Cassidy E. Jacobsen, Ocean Sakr, Bilguudei Naranbaatar, Ruwan Thilakaratne, Zhanna Khnkoyan, Megan Purl, Harrison Cheng, Helena Vervaet, Suhua Feng, Shima Rayatpisheh, James A. Wohlschlegel, Ronan C. O’Malley, Joseph R. Ecker, and Steven E. Jacobsen Immunology and Inflammation [Early antitumor activity of oral Langerhans cells is compromised by a carcinogen]( Yasmin Saba, Itay Aizenbud, Daniela Matanes, Noam Koren, Or Barel, Khalid Zubeidat, Tal Capucha, Eyal David, Luba Eli-Berchoer, Patrizia Stoitzner, Asaf Wilensky, Ido Amit, Rakefet Czerninski, Simon Yona, and Avi-Hai Hovav [B cell–derived IL-27 promotes control of persistent LCMV infection]( Isaraphorn Pratumchai, Jaroslav Zak, Zhe Huang, Booki Min, Michael B. A. Oldstone, and John R. Teijaro [Eosinophils regulate intra-adipose axonal plasticity]( Xia Meng, Xinmin Qian, Xiaofan Ding, Wenjing Wang, Xia Yin, Guanglei Zhuang, and Wenwen Zeng [Intestinal commensal microbiota and cytokines regulate Fut2+ Paneth cells for gut defense]( Mariko Kamioka, Yoshiyuki Goto, Kiminori Nakamura, Yuki Yokoi, Rina Sugimoto, Shuya Ohira, Yosuke Kurashima, Shingo Umemoto, Shintaro Sato, Jun Kunisawa, Yu Takahashi, Steven E. Domino, Jean-Christophe Renauld, Susumu Nakae, Yoichiro Iwakura, Peter B. Ernst, Tokiyoshi Ayabe, and Hiroshi Kiyono [PDGF-D−PDGFRβ signaling enhances IL-15–mediated human natural killer cell survival]( Shoubao Ma, Tingting Tang, Xiaojin Wu, Anthony G. Mansour, Ting Lu, Jianying Zhang, Li-Shu Wang, Michael A. Caligiuri, and Jianhua Yu [CD169+ macrophages in lymph node and spleen critically depend on dual RANK and LTbetaR signaling]( Abdouramane Camara, Alice C. Lavanant, Jun Abe, Henri Lee Desforges, Yannick O. Alexandre, Erika Girardi, Zinaida Igamberdieva, Kenichi Asano, Masato Tanaka, Thomas Hehlgans, Klaus Pfeffer, Sébastien Pfeffer, Scott N. Mueller, Jens V. Stein, and Christopher G. Mueller [Radiotherapy transiently reduces the sensitivity of cancer cells to lymphocyte cytotoxicity]( Karoliina Tuomela, Debayan Mukherjee, Ashley R. Ambrose, Ashish Harikrishnan, Holly Mole, Adam Hurlstone, Björn Önfelt, Jamie Honeychurch, and Daniel M. Davis Medical Sciences [Heterologous vaccination interventions to reduce pandemic morbidity and mortality: Modeling the US winter 2020 COVID-19 wave]( Nathaniel Hupert, Daniela Marín-Hernández, Bo Gao, Ricardo Águas, and Douglas F. Nixon [Inhibition of EZH2 transactivation function sensitizes solid tumors to genotoxic stress]( Yiji Liao, Chen-Hao Chen, Tengfei Xiao, Bárbara de la Peña Avalos, Eloise V. Dray, Changmeng Cai, Shuai Gao, Neel Shah, Zhao Zhang, Avery Feit, Pengya Xue, Zhijie Liu, Mei Yang, Ji Hoon Lee, Han Xu, Wei Li, Shenglin Mei, Roodolph S. Pierre, Shaokun Shu, Teng Fei, Melissa Duarte, Jin Zhao, James E. Bradner, Kornelia Polyak, Philip W. Kantoff, Henry Long, Steven P. Balk, X. Shirley Liu, Myles Brown, and Kexin Xu Microbiology [Insight into the symbiotic lifestyle of DPANN archaea revealed by cultivation and genome analyses]( Hiroyuki D. Sakai, Naswandi Nur, Shingo Kato, Masahiro Yuki, Michiru Shimizu, Takashi Itoh, Moriya Ohkuma, Antonius Suwanto, and Norio Kurosawa [Dengue virus infection modifies mosquito blood-feeding behavior to increase transmission to the host]( Benjamin Wong Wei Xiang, Wilfried A. A. Saron, James C. Stewart, Arthur Hain, Varsha Walvekar, Dorothée Missé, Fréderic Thomas, R. Manjunatha Kini, Benjamin Roche, Adam Claridge-Chang, Ashley L. St. John, and Julien Pompon Neuroscience [Electrophysiological measures from human iPSC-derived neurons are associated with schizophrenia clinical status and predict individual cognitive performance]( Stephanie Cerceo Page, Srinidhi Rao Sripathy, Federica Farinelli, Zengyou Ye, Yanhong Wang, Daniel J. Hiler, Elizabeth A. Pattie, Claudia V. Nguyen, Madhavi Tippani, Rebecca L. Moses, Huei-Ying Chen, Matthew Nguyen Tran, Nicholas J. Eagles, Joshua M. Stolz, Joseph L. Catallini II, Olivia R. Soudry, Dwight Dickinson, Karen F. Berman, Jose A. Apud, Daniel R. Weinberger, Keri Martinowich, Andrew E. Jaffe, Richard E. Straub, and Brady J. Maher [A functional division of Drosophila sweet taste neurons that is value-based and task-specific]( Hsueh-Ling Chen, Dorsa Motevalli, Ulrich Stern, and Chung-Hui Yang [A connectivity-constrained computational account of topographic organization in primate high-level visual cortex]( Nicholas M. Blauch, Marlene Behrmann, and David C. Plaut [LRRTM3 regulates activity-dependent synchronization of synapse properties in topographically connected hippocampal neural circuits]( Jinhu Kim, Dongseok Park, Na-Young Seo, Taek-Han Yoon, Gyu Hyun Kim, Sang-Hoon Lee, Jinsoo Seo, Ji Won Um, Kea Joo Lee, and Jaewon Ko [Regional synapse gain and loss accompany memory formation in larval zebrafish]( William P. Dempsey, Zhuowei Du, Anna Nadtochiy, Colton D. Smith, Karl Czajkowski, Andrey Andreev, Drew N. Robson, Jennifer M. Li, Serina Applebaum, Thai V. Truong, Carl Kesselman, Scott E. Fraser, and Don B. Arnold [Discovery of a dual-action small molecule that improves neuropathological features of Alzheimer’s disease mice]( Min Hee Park, Kang Ho Park, Byung Jo Choi, Wan Hui Han, Hee Ji Yoon, Hye Yoon Jung, Jihoon Lee, Im-Sook Song, Dong Yu Lim, Min-Koo Choi, Yang-Ha Lee, Cheol-Min Park, Ming Wang, Jihoon Jo, Hee-Jin Kim, Seung Hyun Kim, Edward H. Schuchman, Hee Kyung Jin, and Jae-sung Bae [GATOR2 complex–mediated amino acid signaling regulates brain myelination]( Zongyan Yu, Zhiwen Yang, Guoru Ren, Yingjie Wang, Xiang Luo, Feiyan Zhu, Shouyang Yu, Lanlan Jia, Mina Chen, Paul F. Worley, and Bo Xiao [The redundancy and diversity between two novel PKC isotypes that regulate learning in Caenorhabditis elegans]( Shingo Hiroki and Yuichi Iino Physiology [Functional communication between IP3R and STIM2 at subthreshold stimuli is a critical checkpoint for initiation of SOCE]( Moaz Ahmad, Hwei Ling Ong, Hassan Saadi, Ga-Yeon Son, Zahra Shokatian, Lara E. Terry, Mohamed Trebak, David I. Yule, and Indu Ambudkar Plant Biology [The ectomycorrhizal fungus Pisolithus microcarpus encodes a microRNA involved in cross-kingdom gene silencing during symbiosis]( Johanna Wong-Bajracharya, Vasanth R. Singan, Remo Monti, Krista L. Plett, Vivian Ng, Igor V. Grigoriev, Francis M. Martin, Ian C. Anderson, and Jonathan M. Plett [The PCY-SAG14 phytocyanin module regulated by PIFs and miR408 promotes dark-induced leaf senescence in Arabidopsis]( Chen Hao, Yanzhi Yang, Jianmei Du, Xing Wang Deng, and Lei Li --------------------------------------------------------------- Corrections [Correction for Lu et al., Robust high-temperature potassium-ion batteries enabled by carboxyl functional group energy storage]( [Correction for KaramiNejadRanjbar et al., Consequences of resistance evolution in a Cas9-based sex conversion-suppression gene drive for insect pest management]( [Correction for Molimau-Samasoni et al., Functional genomics and metabolomics advance the ethnobotany of the Samoan traditional medicine “matalafi”]( --------------------------------------------------------------- SI Correction [Correction to Supporting Information for Mehlhoff et al., Collateral fitness effects of mutations]( [Cover] --------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to {EMAIL}. 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