| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. Ecosystem Services Special Feature Introductory Perspective From the Cover: Ecosystem Services Special Feature: Ecosystem services: From theory to implementation Gretchen C. Daily and Pamela A. Matson Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9455–9456. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804960105.PMCID: PMC2474530 Research Articles Designing payments for ecosystem services: Lessons from previous experience with incentive-based mechanisms B. Kelsey Jack, Carolyn Kousky, and Katharine R. E. Sims Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9465–9470. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705503104.PMCID: PMC2474507 Efficiency of incentives to jointly increase carbon sequestration and species conservation on a landscape Erik Nelson, Stephen Polasky, David J. Lewis, Andrew J. Plantinga, Eric Lonsdorf, Denis White, David Bael, and Joshua J. Lawler Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9471–9476. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706178105.PMCID: PMC2474525 Ecological and socioeconomic effects of China's policies for ecosystem services Jianguo Liu, Shuxin Li, Zhiyun Ouyang, Christine Tam, and Xiaodong Chen Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9477–9482. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706436105.PMCID: PMC2474515 An operational model for mainstreaming ecosystem services for implementation Richard M. Cowling, Benis Egoh, Andrew T. Knight, Patrick J. O'Farrell, Belinda Reyers, Mathieu Rouget, Dirk J. Roux, Adam Welz, and Angelika Wilhelm-Rechman Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9483–9488. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706559105.PMCID: PMC2474485 Navigating the transition to ecosystem-based management of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia Per Olsson, Carl Folke, and Terry P. Hughes Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9489–9494. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706905105.PMCID: PMC2474521 Global mapping of ecosystem services and conservation priorities R. Naidoo, A. Balmford, R. Costanza, B. Fisher, R. E. Green, B. Lehner, T. R. Malcolm, and T. H. Ricketts Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9495–9500. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707823105.PMCID: PMC2474481 Accounting for ecosystem services as a way to understand the requirements for sustainable development Karl-Göran Mäler, Sara Aniyar, and Åsa Jansson Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9501–9506. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708856105.PMCID: PMC2474543 Perspective An ecosystem services framework to support both practical conservation and economic development Heather Tallis, Peter Kareiva, Michelle Marvier, and Amy Chang Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9457–9464. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705797105.PMCID: PMC2474523 Letters Pupil dilation does not predict subsequent stability in perceptual rivalry J.-M. Hupé, C. Lamirel, and J. Lorenceau Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): E43. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803456105.PMCID: PMC2474482 Reply to Hupé et al.: The predictive correlation of pupil dilation and relative dominance durations in rivalry is not a statistical artifact Wolfgang Einhäuser, James Stout, Christof Koch, and Olivia Carter Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): E44. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803927105.PMCID: PMC2474489 This Week in PNAS Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9449–9450. doi: 10.1073/iti2808105.PMCID: PMC2474503 Commentaries The thermodynamics of writing a random polymer Christopher Jarzynski Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9451–9452. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0805209105.PMCID: PMC2474512 Clues to the evolution of complex signaling machinery Bruce J. Mayer Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9453–9454. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804669105.PMCID: PMC2474536 Physical Sciences Applied Mathematics A remark on global positioning from local distances Amit Singer Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9507–9511. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709842104.PMCID: PMC2474529 Chemistry α-Helix folding in the presence of structural constraints Janne A. Ihalainen, Beatrice Paoli, Stefanie Muff, Ellen H. G. Backus, Jens Bredenbeck, G. Andrew Woolley, Amedeo Caflisch, and Peter Hamm Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9588–9593. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712099105.PMCID: PMC2474473 Engineering Pairwise-additive hydrophobic effect for alkanes in water Jianzhong Wu and John M. Prausnitz Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9512–9515. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802162105.PMCID: PMC2474496 Physics From the Cover: Nonequilibrium generation of information in copolymerization processes David Andrieux and Pierre Gaspard Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9516–9521. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802049105.PMCID: PMC2474480 Biological Sciences Applied Biological Sciences Directed assembly of cell-laden microgels for fabrication of 3D tissue constructs Yanan Du, Edward Lo, Shamsher Ali, and Ali Khademhosseini Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9522–9527. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801866105.PMCID: PMC2474514 Biochemistry Cyanobacteriochrome CcaS is the green light receptor that induces the expression of phycobilisome linker protein Yuu Hirose, Takashi Shimada, Rei Narikawa, Mitsunori Katayama, and Masahiko Ikeuchi Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9528–9533. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801826105.PMCID: PMC2474522 Ribophorin I regulates substrate delivery to the oligosaccharyltransferase core Cornelia M. Wilson, Quentin Roebuck, and Stephen High Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9534–9539. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711846105.PMCID: PMC2443820 Locust retinoid X receptors: 9-Cis-retinoic acid in embryos from a primitive insect Shaun M. Nowickyj, James V. Chithalen, Don Cameron, Michael G. Tyshenko, Martin Petkovich, Gerard R. Wyatt, Glenville Jones, and Virginia K. Walker Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9540–9545. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712132105.PMCID: PMC2474474 Crystal structures of substrate-bound and substrate-free cytochrome P450 46A1, the principal cholesterol hydroxylase in the brain Natalia Mast, Mark Andrew White, Ingemar Bjorkhem, Eric F. Johnson, C. David Stout, and Irina A. Pikuleva Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9546–9551. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803717105.PMCID: PMC2474539 Crystal and cryoEM structural studies of a cell wall degrading enzyme in the bacteriophage 29 tail Ye Xiang, Marc C. Morais, Daniel N. Cohen, Valorie D. Bowman, Dwight L. Anderson, and Michael G. Rossmann Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9552–9557. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803787105.PMCID: PMC2474476 Structure of the α2ε2 Ni-dependent CO dehydrogenase component of the Methanosarcina barkeri acetyl-CoA decarbonylase/synthase complex Weimin Gong, Bing Hao, Zhiyi Wei, Donald J. Ferguson, Jr., Thomas Tallant, Joseph A. Krzycki, and Michael K. Chan Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9558–9563. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800415105.PMCID: PMC2474488 Crystal structure of the yeast eIF4A-eIF4G complex: An RNA-helicase controlled by protein–protein interactions Patrick Schütz, Mario Bumann, Anselm Erich Oberholzer, Christoph Bieniossek, Hans Trachsel, Michael Altmann, and Ulrich Baumann Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9564–9569. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800418105.PMCID: PMC2474498 Golgi α-mannosidase II cleaves two sugars sequentially in the same catalytic site Niket Shah, Douglas A. Kuntz, and David R. Rose Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9570–9575. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802206105.PMCID: PMC2474516 Triplex-forming oligonucleotide–orthophenanthroline conjugates for efficient targeted genome modification Fabio Cannata, Erika Brunet, Loïc Perrouault, Victoria Roig, Slimane Ait-Si-Ali, Ulysse Asseline, Jean-Paul Concordet, and Carine Giovannangeli Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9576–9581. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710433105.PMCID: PMC2474501 Molecular basis for the thiol sensitivity of insulin-degrading enzyme Marie Neant-Fery, Rubén D. Garcia-Ordoñez, Todd P. Logan, Dennis J. Selkoe, Lilin Li, Lael Reinstatler, and Malcolm A. Leissring Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9582–9587. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801261105.PMCID: PMC2474492 Biophysics α-Helix folding in the presence of structural constraints Janne A. Ihalainen, Beatrice Paoli, Stefanie Muff, Ellen H. G. Backus, Jens Bredenbeck, G. Andrew Woolley, Amedeo Caflisch, and Peter Hamm Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9588–9593. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712099105.PMCID: PMC2474473 Bioinformatic method for protein thermal stabilization by structural entropy optimization Euiyoung Bae, Ryan M. Bannen, and George N. Phillips, Jr. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9594–9597. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800938105.PMCID: PMC2474475 Electrostatic funneling of substrate in mitochondrial inner membrane carriers Yi Wang and Emad Tajkhorshid Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9598–9603. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801786105.PMCID: PMC2474497 Force-dependent hopping rates of RNA hairpins can be estimated from accurate measurement of the folding landscapes Changbong Hyeon, Greg Morrison, and D. Thirumalai Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9604–9609. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802484105.PMCID: PMC2474478 Subnanometer-resolution electron cryomicroscopy-based domain models for the cytoplasmic region of skeletal muscle RyR channel Irina I. Serysheva, Steven J. Ludtke, Matthew L. Baker, Yao Cong, Maya Topf, David Eramian, Andrej Sali, Susan L. Hamilton, and Wah Chiu Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9610–9615. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803189105.PMCID: PMC2474495 A myosin motor that selects bundled actin for motility Stanislav Nagy, Benjamin L. Ricca, Melanie F. Norstrom, David S. Courson, Crista M. Brawley, Philip A. Smithback, and Ronald S. Rock Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9616–9620. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802592105.PMCID: PMC2474510 Solution structure of the U2 snRNP protein Rds3p reveals a knotted zinc-finger motif Anne-Marie M. van Roon, Nikolaus M. Loening, Eiji Obayashi, Ji-Chun Yang, Andrew J. Newman, Helena Hernández, Kiyoshi Nagai, and David Neuhaus Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9621–9626. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802494105.PMCID: PMC2474504 Cell Biology Functional architecture of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate signaling in restricted spaces of myoendothelial projections Jonathan Ledoux, Mark S. Taylor, Adrian D. Bonev, Rachael M. Hannah, Viktoriya Solodushko, Bo Shui, Yvonne Tallini, Michael I. Kotlikoff, and Mark T. Nelson Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9627–9632. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801963105.PMCID: PMC2474537 HDAC6 is a specific deacetylase of peroxiredoxins and is involved in redox regulation R. B. Parmigiani, W. S. Xu, G. Venta-Perez, H. Erdjument-Bromage, M. Yaneva, P. Tempst, and P. A. Marks Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9633–9638. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803749105.PMCID: PMC2443817 Identifying a property of origins of DNA synthesis required to support plasmids stably in human cells Chen-Yu Wang and Bill Sugden Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9639–9644. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801378105.PMCID: PMC2474519 Developmental Biology The tumor suppressor genes dachsous and fat modulate different signalling pathways by regulating dally and dally-like Luis Alberto Baena-Lopez, Isabel Rodríguez, and Antonio Baonza Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9645–9650. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803747105.PMCID: PMC2474532 Isolation of a Drosophila amplification origin developmentally activated by transcription Fang Xie and Terry L. Orr-Weaver Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9651–9656. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804146105.PMCID: PMC2447865 Par3/Par6 polarity complex coordinates apical ectoplasmic specialization and blood–testis barrier restructuring during spermatogenesis Elissa W. P. Wong, Dolores D. Mruk, Will M. Lee, and C. Yan Cheng Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9657–9662. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801527105.PMCID: PMC2474483 Ecology Continental diatom biodiversity in stream benthos declines as more nutrients become limiting Sophia I. Passy Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9663–9667. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802542105.PMCID: PMC2474509 Environmental Sciences The environmental impact of recombinant bovine somatotropin (rbST) use in dairy production Judith L. Capper, Euridice Castañeda-Gutiérrez, Roger A. Cady, and Dale E. Bauman Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9668–9673. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802446105.PMCID: PMC2442129 Evolution From the Cover: The protist, Monosiga brevicollis, has a tyrosine kinase signaling network more elaborate and diverse than found in any known metazoan Gerard Manning, Susan L. Young, W. Todd Miller, and Yufeng Zhai Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9674–9679. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801314105.PMCID: PMC2453073 From the Cover: Evolution of the phospho-tyrosine signaling machinery in premetazoan lineages David Pincus, Ivica Letunic, Peer Bork, and Wendell A. Lim Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9680–9684. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803161105.PMCID: PMC2443182 Coordinated evolution of the hepatitis C virus D. S. Campo, Z. Dimitrova, R. J. Mitchell, J. Lara, and Y. Khudyakov Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9685–9690. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801774105.PMCID: PMC2474538 Acc homoeoloci and the evolution of wheat genomes D. Chalupska, H. Y. Lee, J. D. Faris, A. Evrard, B. Chalhoub, R. Haselkorn, and P. Gornicki Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9691–9696. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803981105.PMCID: PMC2474508 Genetics A genome-wide RNAi screen for Wnt/β-catenin pathway components identifies unexpected roles for TCF transcription factors in cancer Wei Tang, Michael Dodge, Deepika Gundapaneni, Carolyn Michnoff, Michael Roth, and Lawrence Lum Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9697–9702. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804709105.PMCID: PMC2453074 Cellular and molecular effects of nonreciprocal chromosome translocations in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Dmitri Nikitin, Valentina Tosato, Apolonija Bedina Zavec, and Carlo V. Bruschi Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9703–9708. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800464105.PMCID: PMC2474487 Defining diversity, specialization, and gene specificity in transcriptomes through information theory Octavio Martínez and M. Humberto Reyes-Valdés Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9709–9714. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803479105.PMCID: PMC2443819 Tools for neuroanatomy and neurogenetics in Drosophila Barret D. Pfeiffer, Arnim Jenett, Ann S. Hammonds, Teri-T B. Ngo, Sima Misra, Christine Murphy, Audra Scully, Joseph W. Carlson, Kenneth H. Wan, Todd R. Laverty, Chris Mungall, Rob Svirskas, James T. Kadonaga, Chris Q. Doe, Michael B. Eisen, Susan E. Celniker, and Gerald M. Rubin Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9715–9720. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803697105.PMCID: PMC2447866 Immunology Aryl hydrocarbon receptor regulates Stat1 activation and participates in the development of Th17 cells Akihiro Kimura, Tetsuji Naka, Keiko Nohara, Yoshiaki Fujii-Kuriyama, and Tadamitsu Kishimoto Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9721–9726. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804231105.PMCID: PMC2474493 Autoreactive IgG memory antibodies in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus arise from nonreactive and polyreactive precursors Brun Mietzner, Makoto Tsuiji, Johannes Scheid, Klara Velinzon, Thomas Tiller, Klaus Abraham, Jose B. Gonzalez, Virginia Pascual, Dorothee Stichweh, Hedda Wardemann, and Michel C. Nussenzweig Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9727–9732. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803644105.PMCID: PMC2474524 Medical Sciences From the Cover: IKK1 and IKK2 cooperate to maintain bile duct integrity in the liver Tom Luedde, Jan Heinrichsdorff, Rossana de Lorenzi, Rita De Vos, Tania Roskams, and Manolis Pasparakis Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9733–9738. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800198105.PMCID: PMC2474544 Class 1A PI3K regulates vessel integrity during development and tumorigenesis Tina L. Yuan, Hak Soo Choi, Aya Matsui, Cyril Benes, Eugene Lifshits, Ji Luo, John V. Frangioni, and Lewis C. Cantley Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9739–9744. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804123105.PMCID: PMC2453070 Autophagy is an adaptive response in desmin-related cardiomyopathy Paul Tannous, Hongxin Zhu, Janet L. Johnstone, John M. Shelton, Namakkal S. Rajasekaran, Ivor J. Benjamin, Lan Nguyen, Robert D. Gerard, Beth Levine, Beverly A. Rothermel, and Joseph A. Hill Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9745–9750. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706802105.PMCID: PMC2474535 Expression-based screening identifies the combination of histone deacetylase inhibitors and retinoids for neuroblastoma differentiation Cynthia K. Hahn, Kenneth N. Ross, Ian M. Warrington, Ralph Mazitschek, Cindy M. Kanegai, Renee D. Wright, Andrew L. Kung, Todd R. Golub, and Kimberly Stegmaier Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9751–9756. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710413105.PMCID: PMC2474517 The MCK mouse heart model of Friedreich's ataxia: Alterations in iron-regulated proteins and cardiac hypertrophy are limited by iron chelation Megan Whitnall, Yohan Suryo Rahmanto, Robert Sutak, Xiangcong Xu, Erika M. Becker, Marc R. Mikhael, Prem Ponka, and Des R. Richardson Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9757–9762. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804261105.PMCID: PMC2474513 Autocrine regulation of mda-7/IL-24 mediates cancer-specific apoptosis Moira Sauane, Zao-zhong Su, Pankaj Gupta, Irina V. Lebedeva, Paul Dent, Devanand Sarkar, and Paul B. Fisher Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9763–9768. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804089105.PMCID: PMC2474541 Microbiology Mucosal penetration primes Vibrio cholerae for host colonization by repressing quorum sensing Zhi Liu, Tim Miyashiro, Amy Tsou, Ansel Hsiao, Mark Goulian, and Jun Zhu Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9769–9774. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802241105.PMCID: PMC2474479 Neuroscience Deficiency of Aph1B/C-γ-secretase disturbs Nrg1 cleavage and sensorimotor gating that can be reversed with antipsychotic treatment T. Dejaegere, L. Serneels, M. K. Schäfer, J. Van Biervliet, K. Horré, C. Depboylu, D. Alvarez-Fischer, A. Herreman, M. Willem, C. Haass, G. U. Höglinger, R. D'Hooge, and B. De Strooper Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9775–9780. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800507105.PMCID: PMC2474502 Consistency and functional specialization in the default mode brain network Ben J. Harrison, Jesus Pujol, Marina López-Solà, Rosa Hernández-Ribas, Joan Deus, Hector Ortiz, Carles Soriano-Mas, Murat Yücel, Christos Pantelis, and Narcís Cardoner Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9781–9786. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711791105.PMCID: PMC2474491 Uncoupling of behavioral and autonomic responses after lesions of the primate orbitofrontal cortex Y. L. Reekie, K. Braesicke, M. S. Man, and A. C. Roberts Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9787–9792. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800417105.PMCID: PMC2447863 Physiology Sirt1 protects against high-fat diet-induced metabolic damage Paul T. Pfluger, Daniel Herranz, Susana Velasco-Miguel, Manuel Serrano, and Matthias H. Tschöp Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9793–9798. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802917105.PMCID: PMC2474520 Divergent sodium channel defects in familial hemiplegic migraine Kristopher M. Kahlig, Thomas H. Rhodes, Michael Pusch, Tobias Freilinger, José M. Pereira-Monteiro, Michel D. Ferrari, Arn M. J. M. van den Maagdenberg, Martin Dichgans, and Alfred L. George, Jr. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9799–9804. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711717105.PMCID: PMC2474506 Removal of sialic acid involving Klotho causes cell-surface retention of TRPV5 channel via binding to galectin-1 Seung-Kuy Cha, Bernardo Ortega, Hiroshi Kurosu, Kevin P. Rosenblatt, Makoto Kuro-o, and Chou-Long Huang Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9805–9810. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803223105.PMCID: PMC2474477 Glucose regulates the effects of leptin on hypothalamic POMC neurons Xiaosong Ma, Lejla Zubcevic, and Frances M. Ashcroft Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9811–9816. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800952105.PMCID: PMC2443183 Plant Biology The RPG gene of Medicago truncatula controls Rhizobium-directed polar growth during infection Jean-François Arrighi, Olivier Godfroy, Françoise de Billy, Olivier Saurat, Alain Jauneau, and Clare Gough Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9817–9822. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710273105.PMCID: PMC2474542 Differential and chaotic calcium signatures in the symbiosis signaling pathway of legumes Sonja Kosuta, Saul Hazledine, Jongho Sun, Hiroki Miwa, Richard J. Morris, J. Allan Downie, and Giles E. D. Oldroyd Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9823–9828. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803499105.PMCID: PMC2474534 Integration of auxin and brassinosteroid pathways by Auxin Response Factor 2 Grégory Vert, Cristina L. Walcher, Joanne Chory, and Jennifer L. Nemhauser Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9829–9834. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803996105.PMCID: PMC2474533 Population Biology The paradoxical effects of using antiretroviral-based microbicides to control HIV epidemics David P. Wilson, Paul M. Coplan, Mark A. Wainberg, and Sally M. Blower Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9835–9840. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711813105.PMCID: PMC2447864 Sustainability Science Efficiency of incentives to jointly increase carbon sequestration and species conservation on a landscape Erik Nelson, Stephen Polasky, David J. Lewis, Andrew J. Plantinga, Eric Lonsdorf, Denis White, David Bael, and Joshua J. Lawler Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9471–9476. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706178105.PMCID: PMC2474525 Ecological and socioeconomic effects of China's policies for ecosystem services Jianguo Liu, Shuxin Li, Zhiyun Ouyang, Christine Tam, and Xiaodong Chen Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9477–9482. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706436105.PMCID: PMC2474515 An operational model for mainstreaming ecosystem services for implementation Richard M. Cowling, Benis Egoh, Andrew T. Knight, Patrick J. O'Farrell, Belinda Reyers, Mathieu Rouget, Dirk J. Roux, Adam Welz, and Angelika Wilhelm-Rechman Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9483–9488. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706559105.PMCID: PMC2474485 Navigating the transition to ecosystem-based management of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia Per Olsson, Carl Folke, and Terry P. Hughes Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9489–9494. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706905105.PMCID: PMC2474521 Global mapping of ecosystem services and conservation priorities R. Naidoo, A. Balmford, R. Costanza, B. Fisher, R. E. Green, B. Lehner, T. R. Malcolm, and T. H. Ricketts Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9495–9500. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707823105.PMCID: PMC2474481 Accounting for ecosystem services as a way to understand the requirements for sustainable development Karl-Göran Mäler, Sara Aniyar, and Åsa Jansson Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9501–9506. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708856105.PMCID: PMC2474543 Climate-related increase in the prevalence of urolithiasis in the United States Tom H. Brikowski, Yair Lotan, and Margaret S. Pearle Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9841–9846. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709652105.PMCID: PMC2474527 Social Sciences Economic Sciences Designing payments for ecosystem services: Lessons from previous experience with incentive-based mechanisms B. Kelsey Jack, Carolyn Kousky, and Katharine R. E. Sims Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9465–9470. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705503104.PMCID: PMC2474507 Sustainability Science Efficiency of incentives to jointly increase carbon sequestration and species conservation on a landscape Erik Nelson, Stephen Polasky, David J. Lewis, Andrew J. Plantinga, Eric Lonsdorf, Denis White, David Bael, and Joshua J. Lawler Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 15; 105(28): 9471–9476. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706178105.PMCID: PMC2474525 |