Biology Library News

New bio-related ebooks, June, 2008

Oxford Univ. Press e-reference editions
Encyclopedia of Evolution Topics include: Darwin, natural selection, human origins, behavioral ecology, diversity, mathematical models, and cell and developmental biology. Special essays include Stephen Jay Gould's “Macroevolution” and Jane Goodall and Elizabeth Vinson-Lonsdorf on “Culture in Chimpanzees.” [Bio library also has the print edition.]
Encyclopedia of Global Change "Encompassing tsunamis, elephant conservation, ocean pollution, mining regulation, and permafrost melt, the 300 authoritative articles ... investigate all types of phenomena that change life on Earth. The entries cover a range of general research categories: altered ecosystems, climate change, food and water supply, population, politics and global change, institutions and policies, biographies, and case studies."
There have been several other online versions of various specialized encyclopedias from Oxford Univ. Press and other publishers. Check http://wulibraries.typepad.com/whatsnew/collections_resources/index.html for lots more titles.

New on ScienceDirect:
Methods in Enzymology, v.441 (2008): Nitric Oxide, Part G Oxidative and Nitrosative Stress in Redox Regulation of Cell Signaling
Current Topics in Membranes, v.60 (2008): Computational Modeling of Membrane Bilayers

R2 Digital Library from Becker Medical Library
Basic clinical laboratory techniques, 5th ed
Cancer: principles and practice of oncology, 7th ed
Clinical ethics : a practical approach to ethical decisions in clinical medicine, 6th ed
and more

Selected titles from SCI-TECHnetBASE :
Oceanographic Processes of Coral Reefs: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef
Biomechanics: Principles and Applications
Using Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry and Biology: A Practical Guide
Algae: Anatomy, Biochemistry, and Biotechnology
Florida Ethnobotany

New from Springerprotocols (formerly Biomedprotocols)[These will be added to Becker Medical Library Catalog but not to our library catalog]:
Adipose Tissue Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.456)
Prion Protein Protocols (Method in Molecular Biology, v.459)

New Ebooks from Springer:
Carbon and Nitrogen in the Terrestrial Environment
Neuroanatomy for the Neuroscientist
Laboratory Guide to the Methods in Biochemical Genetics
The Ecophysiology of Plant-Phosphorus Interactions (Plant Ecophysiology, v.7)
Pseudomonas syringae Pathovars and Related Pathogens – Identification, Epidemiology and Genomics
Reelin Glycoprotein: Structure, Biology and Roles in Health and Disease
Genome Mapping and Genomics in Fishes and Aquatic Animals (Genome Mapping Genomics Animals, v.2)
Oxidants in Biology: A Question of Balance
Immunology, Phenotype First: How Mutations Have Established New Principles and Pathways in Immunology (Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, v.321)
Evolutionary Biology from Concept to Application
Insect Conservation and Islands
Ecosystem Organization of a Complex Landscape: Long-Term Research in the Bornhöved Lake District, Germany (Ecological Studies, v.202)
The Ciliated Protozoa: Characterization, Classification, and Guide to the Literature, 3rd ed.
Orientation and Navigation in Vertebrates
Structural And Functional Organization Of The Synapse
Crop Biosecurity:Assuring our Global Food Supply
Filoviruses: A Compendium of 40 Years of Epidemiological, Clinical, and Laboratory Studies (Archives of Virology. Supplementa, v.20)
Stem Cells: From Hydra to Man
Algal Toxins: Nature, Occurrence, Effect and Detection
Biological Nitrogen Fixation: Towards Poverty Alleviation through Sustainable Agriculture - Proceedings of the 15th International Nitrogen Fixation Congress and the 12th International Conference of the African Association for Biological Nitrogen Fixation (Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture, v.42)

Recently published articles from WU Biology Dept. people, June, 2008

• Bollen WS, Gunn BM, Mo H, Lay MK, Curtiss R 3rd. 2008. Presence of wild-type and attenuated salmonella in brain tissues following inoculation of mice by different routes. Infect Immun 76:3268-72. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 4 months after publication.
• Brudvig LA, Asbjornsen H. 2008. Patterns of oak regeneration in a Midwestern savanna restoration experiment. Forest Ecology and Management 255:3019-3025. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers; WU does not subscribe.
• Brudvig LA, Mabry CM. 2008. Trait-Based Filtering of the Regional Species Pool to Guide Understory Plant Reintroductions in Midwestern Oak Savannas, U.S.A. Restoration Ecology 16:290-304. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Conroy CJ, Neuwald JL. 2008. Phylogeographic study of the California vole, Microtus californicus. J Mammalogy 89:755-767. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Haswell ES, Peyronnet R, Barbier-Brygoo H, Meyerowitz EM, Frachisse JM. 2008. Two MscS homologs provide mechanosensitive channel activities in the Arabidopsis root. Curr Biol 18:730-4. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers |In the News: Proteins Making Up Mechanosensitive Ion Channels In Plant Roots Identified.
• Lee JH, Lin H, Joo S, Goodenough U. 2008. Early sexual origins of homeoprotein heterodimerization and evolution of the plant KNOX/BELL family. Cell 133:829-40. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers; free 1 year after publication.
• Lewis WH. 2008. Rosa carolina (Rosaceae) subspecies and hybrids in eastern and Midwestern United States, Canada, and Mexico. Novon 18:192-198. Abstract & fulltext for BioOne subscribers.
• Nedbal L, Trtílek M, Cervený J, Komárek O, Pakrasi HB. 2008. A photobioreactor system for precision cultivation of photoautotrophic microorganisms and for high-content analysis of suspension dynamics. Biotechnol Bioeng 100:902-10. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Noguchi T, Lenartowska M, Rogat AD, Frank DJ, Miller KG. 2008. Proper cellular reorganization during Drosophila spermatid individualization depends on actin structures composed of two domains, bundles and meshwork, that Are differentially regulated and have different functions. Mol Biol Cell 19:2363-72. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 2 months after publication.
• Olsen KM, Hsu SC, Small LL. 2008. Evidence on the molecular basis of the Ac/ac adaptive cyanogenesis polymorphism in white clover (Trifolium repens L.). Genetics 179:517-26. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 3 months after publication.
• Pardini EA, Hamrick JL. 2008. Inferring recruitment history from spatial genetic structure within populations of the colonizing tree Albizia julibrissin (Fabaceae). Molecular Ecology 17:2865-2879. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Pontes O, Pikaard CS. 2008. siRNA and miRNA processing: new functions for Cajal bodies. Curr Opin Genet Dev 18:197-203. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Putnam NH, Butts T, Ferrier DE, Furlong RF, Hellsten U, Kawashima T, Robinson-Rechavi M, Shoguchi E, Terry A, Yu JK, Benito-Gutiérrez EL, Dubchak I, Garcia-Fernàndez J, Gibson-Brown JJ, Grigoriev IV, Horton AC, de Jong PJ, Jurka J, Kapitonov VV, Kohara Y, Kuroki Y, Lindquist E, Lucas S, Osoegawa K, Pennacchio LA, Salamov AA, Satou Y, Sauka-Spengler T, Schmutz J, Shin-I T, Toyoda A, Bronner-Fraser M, Fujiyama A, Holland LZ, Holland PW, Satoh N, Rokhsar DS. 2008. The amphioxus genome and the evolution of the chordate karyotype. Nature 453:1064-71. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Richards EJ. 2008. Population epigenetics. Curr Opin Genet Dev 18:221-226. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Sattley WM, Madigan MT, Swingley WD, Cheung PC, Clocksin KM, Conrad AL, Dejesa LC, Honchak BM, Jung DO, Karbach LE, Kurdoglu A, Lahiri S, Mastrian SD, Page LE, Taylor HL, Wang ZT, Raymond J, Chen M, Blankenship RE, Touchman JW. 2008. The genome of Heliobacterium modesticaldum, a phototrophic representative of the Firmicutes containing the simplest photosynthetic apparatus. J Bacteriol 190:4687-96 PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 4 months after publication.
• Singh AK, Bhattacharyya-Pakrasi M, Pakrasi HB. 2008. Identification of an atypical membrane protein involved in the formation of protein disulfide bonds in oxygenic photosynthetic organisms. J Biol Chem. 283:15762-70. PubMed abstract & free fulltext.

li style="margin-bottom: 10px;">Tang J, Suga N. 2008. Modulation of auditory processing by cortico-cortical feed-forward and feedback projections. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:7600-5. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 6 months after publication.

• Toepel J, Welsh E, Summerfield TC, Pakrasi H, Sherman LA. 2008. Differential transcriptional analysis of the cyanobacterium Cyanothece sp. ATCC 51142 during light-dark and continuous-light growth. J Bacteriol 190:3904-13. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 4 months after publication.
• Xu M, Ogawa T, Pakrasi HB, Mi H. 2008. Identification and localization of the CupB protein involved in constitutive CO2-uptake in the cyanobacterium, Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803. Plant Cell Physiol 49:994-7. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Yaniv M, Elgin SCR. 2008. Chromosomes and expression mechanisms: bringing together the roles of DNA, RNA and proteins. Curr Opin Genet Dev 18:107-8. PubMed citation & fulltext for subscribers.

New ejournal access in June for biology

***Archives Italiennes de Biologie

Full text, v.138, 2000+; WU access only.

***BMC Research Notes

Full text, v.1, 2008+; freely available; Biomed Central.

***Calcium Binding Proteins

Full text, v.1-3, 2006-2008; freely available; Landes Bioscience.

***Clean - Soil, Air, Water

Full text, v.35, 2007+; WU access only; Wiley, formerly: Acta histochimica et hydrobiologica.

***Epigenetics

Full text, v.1, 2006-12 months ago; freely available; Landes Bioscience.

***New Biotechnology

Full text, v.25, 2008+: WU access only; Science Direct; formerly: Biomolecular Engineering.

***Oecologia

Full text, v. 1, 1968-3 years ago; WU access only; JSTOR.

***Plant Signaling & Behavior

Full text, v.1-12 months ago; freely available; Landes Bioscience.

***Wilson Bulletin (Wilson Ornithological Society)

Full text, v.1, 1889 - 3 years ago; WU access only; JSTOR.

New books June 27, 2008 - July 3, 2008

Annual review of biophysics. Review Serial v.37 (2008), also online
Just genes : the ethics of genetic technologies Barash, Carol Isaacson. QH438.7 .B37 2008
Lehninger principles of biochemistry Nelson, David L. QD415 .L44 2008
Methods in cell biology: Avian embryology, 2nd ed QH585 .P7 v.87 (2008), also online

Interesting reading

Wired Magazine, June 23, 2008: The Petabyte Age: Because More Isn't Just More — More Is Different | The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete "...massive amounts of data and applied mathematics replace every other tool that might be brought to bear" -- the comments are interesting also!

Darwin still causing waves after 150 years

Citation statistics report

In the news: Citation Statistics, June, 2008, report from 3 math associations critiquing impact factors, etc.

PscyINFO and other databases change to a different interface

Some OCLC Firstsearch databases, including PsycINFO, are now available on EBSCOhost instead. More info.

Fall 2008 Reserve lists

Fall course instructors: It's never too early to let us know if there are new editions or other books we may need to purchase for reserve. We will be sending reminder emails out soon based on the course listing. More info about putting materials on reserve in the biology library.

SciFinder client discontinued; use SciFinder Web now

SciFinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts and some other databases) is now only available using the web interface. We have moved all our concurrent usage to the web and eliminated the client interface. If you have not used the web version, your initial registration must be done while you are using a WU campus IP address and a wustl.edu email address. More info about registration.

New books June 20, 2008 - June 27, 2008

Advances in agronomy. Review Serial v.94 (2007)
Advances in applied microbiology. Review Serial v.61 (2007)
Advances in immunology. Review Serial v.97 (2008)
Amphibians and reptiles of Georgia QL653.G4 .A46 2008
Animal learning & cognition : an introduction Pearce, John M. QL785 .P359 2008
Coding and redundancy : man-made and animal-evolved signals Hailman, Jack QA268 .H34 2008
Continental-scale greenhouse gas balance of Europe TD885.5.G73 C66 2008
Ecosystem organization of a complex landscape QH541.15.E27 E26 2008
Introduction to molecular ecology Beebee, Trevor J. C. QH541.15.M63 B44 2008
Molecular modeling : basic principles and applications QP517.M3 M64 2008
Paramecium : genetics and epigenetics Beale, Geoffrey. QL368.H87 B43 2008
Physiology and behaviour of plants Scott, Peter. QK711.2 .S36 2008
Plants at the margin : ecological limits and climate change Crawford, R. M. M. QK754.5 .C73 2008
Synergy Latash, Mark L. QP303 .L33 2008
Understanding flowers and flowering : an integrated approach Glover, Beverley QK653 .G56 2007